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Holiday Party, Photo Contest, and Ugly

Submitted by cong on Thu, 11/30/2017 - 10:45

The Holiday Party committee would like to invite you to participate in the Holidays Best Photo Contest!

Please send in your submissions by Thursday, November 30th, 2017 to segwavelets@gmail.com

Submissions are divided into the following five categories, up to four submissions per person (one per category):

Field/ Research

People/ Culture

Outdoors/Nature

Humor

UH Spirit

Rules of submission:

Maximum of 4 submissions (1 per category) for each person.

Photos should not be older than 2015.

Include a short description with each submitted photo (Optional).

Label each photo with your name and category. (i.e. LastName_FirstName_Category.jpg)

Photos must be yours or have the legal authority to use. 

Submission of a photo will give SEG Wavelets the right to reprint and use at its discretion.

Student Speak their Mind at the Pop-Up Talk

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SEG Wavelets Meet and Greet: the Tradition that Continues

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SEG Wavelets TED Talk Hits the Ground

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De-Hua Han from University of Houston will be giving the EGLS talk this Friday Feb 15th

Submitted by omerakbas on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 19:59

De-Hua Han from University of Houston will be giving the EGLS talk this Friday Feb 15th

"Seismic Rock Physics: Challenge the Uncertainty"

15th February 2013 & 12:0pm

Agnes Arnold Hall (AH) Room 104

Abstract:

This presentation will introduce Seismic Rock Physics as follows:

1. Geology to constrain rock and fluid properties

2. Physical laws relating rock properties, rock parameters, fluid properties and reservoir conditions

3. Up-scaling to meaningful seismic attributes

4. Inversion to reservoir properties.

Dr. De-hua Han is Research Professor and Director of the Rock Physics Laboratory at the University of Houston. He has over 30 years of professional experience in industry and academia, in roles such as Principal Investigator of various industry consortia including the Fluids/DHI Consortium. Dr. Han received a BS in Solid Physics from Heibei University, a MS in Rock Mechanics from the Graduate School of Chinese Acad. Sci., and a PhD in Geophysics from Stanford University.

The talk is open to anyone interested and will begin at 12:00pm in the Agnes Arnold Hall (AH), 1st floor, room 104.

Pizza will be provided!

This event is hosted by the SEG Wavelets, the University of Houston SEG student chapter.

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SEG 2013 Spring Distinguished Lecturer: Gerard T. Schuster from King Abdullah University Science and Technology

Submitted by omerakbas on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:37

2013 Distinguished Lecturer

Gerard T. Schuster

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Seismic interferometry and beyond: Harvesting signal from coherent noise

Abstract:

With the dwindling number of easy discoveries and ever increasing demand of energy resources, the oil and gas exploration industries are moving to less conventional plays, deeper water, and more difficult terrains. The attendant cost of drilling and extraction has prompted the energy and service companies to invest heavily in seismic data acquisition and processing to harvest as much illumination information as possible about the subsurface. Fortunately, the exploration geophysics community during the past decade has witnessed the parallel emergence of a new exploration geophysics topic – seismic interferometry. Seismic interferometry is a means by which unused events, often discarded as coherent noise, can be recombined to give usable signal for existing imaging algorithms. For example, multiple reflections can be recycled as virtual primaries that can illuminate larger portions of the subsurface than seen by the recorded primaries. 

In this lecture I will introduce the concepts underlying seismic interferometry and present the workflows for its implementations and practical applications. I will show various ways to harvest useful signal from portions of the data normally considered as noise in conventional processing. I will use several examples to illustrate the practical benefits of interferometry and other multiple imaging methods: increased subsalt illumination by multiple reflections, tripling of the aperture of usable refraction arrivals by supervirtual interferometry, significant widening of the illumination zone of VSP data by transforming multiples into primaries, and reduction of the cost of imaging by multisource phase encoded migration and waveform inversion.

Biography:

Gerard Schuster is currently a Professor of Geophysics at King Abdullah University Science and Technology (KAUST) and an adjunct Professor of Geophysics at University of Utah. He was the founder and director of the Utah Tomography and Modeling/Migration consortium from 1987 to 2009, and is now the co-director and founder of the Center for Fluid Modeling and Seismic Imaging at KAUST. Dr. Schuster helped pioneer seismic interferometry and its practical applications in applied geophysics, through his active research program and through his extensive publications, including his book "Seismic Interferometry" (Cambridge Press, 2009). He also has extensive experience in developing innovative migration and inversion methods for both exploration and earthquake seismology.

Gerard has an MS (1982) and a PhD (1984) from Columbia University and was a postdoctoral researcher there from 1984-1985. From 1985 to 2009 he was a professor of Geophysics at University of Utah. He left Utah to start his current position as Professor of Geophysics at KAUST in 2009. He received a number of teaching and research awards while at University of Utah. He was editor of Geophysics from 2004-2005 and was awarded SEG's Virgil Kauffman gold medal in 2010 for his work in seismic interferometry.

Pizza will be provided!

This event is hosted by the SEG Wavelets, the University of Houston SEG student chapter. For more information on this and other events we have planned, please visit our website:

http://segwavelets.uh.edu/

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Some pictures from the 2013 Spring SEG Distinguished Lecture

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Enru Liu from ExxonMobil will give the EGLS talk this Friday Jan 25th

Submitted by omerakbas on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:24

Enru Liu from ExxonMobil will be giving a talk this Friday Jan 25th titled:

"Integrated geophysical characterization of unconventional resources: A rock physics perspective"

Dr. Enru Liu is a Senior Research Specialist at ExxonMobil where he works on rock physics, seismic anisotropy, multicomponent seismology, fracture characterization, seismic attribute analysis and interpretation. He received a BSc in geophysics from the Changchun Geological Institute (now part of the Jilin University, China) and a PhD in geophysics from the University of Edinburgh (UK).

Dr. Liu was a Principal Research Scientist at the British Geological Survey (BGS) until March 2007 when he joined ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company (EMURC). While at BGS, he was the principal researcher of the Edinburgh Anisotropy Project – an industry sponsored research consortium since 1988 and was the Principal Investigator of several industry and UK research council funded projects including the NERC Micro-to-Macro programme.

The talk is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 12:00pm in the Agnes Arnold Hall building, 1st floor, room 104.

Pizza will be provided!

This event is hosted by the SEG Wavelets, the University of Houston SEG student chapter. For more information on this and other events we have planned, please visit our website:

http://segwavelets.uh.edu/

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2012 EAS Holiday Party

Submitted by omerakbas on Sat, 12/22/2012 - 11:57

SEG Wavelets, AAPG Wildcatters and Geosociety hosted the Annual Geoscience Holiday Party and Photo Competition at Nouveau Antique Art Bar on November 30th!

Winner of the "Scenery" category at the 2012 EAS Holiday Party Photo Competition! Congratulations Tania!

Winner of the "Adventure" category at the 2012 EAS Holiday Party Photo Competition! Congratulations Ozbil!

Winner of the "Humor" category at the 2012 EAS Holiday Party Photo Competition! Congratulations Ozbil!

Some pictures from the Holiday Party:

2012 Earth Science Week

Submitted by omerakbas on Sat, 12/22/2012 - 10:25

Seismology demonstration for visitors of the Houston Museum of Natural Science!

Hess donates $1,000 to SEG Wavelets! Thank you, Hess!!

Submitted by Antonio on Sun, 12/02/2012 - 16:30

Lisa Buckner, on behalf of Hess, presented SEG Wavelets with a check for $1,000 to help cover the cost of our ambitious schedule of events for the 2012-2013 term!

On behalf of our 100+ members: Thank you so much!!

UH Geoscience Holiday Party! (and Photo Competition!)

Submitted by Antonio on Wed, 11/28/2012 - 16:08

*REMEMBER TO PURCHASE A TICKET FOR THIS EVENT*

$10 Students and students' guests

$15 Other

*more info below*

SEG Wavelets, AAPG Wildcatters and Geosociety will be hosting the Annual Geoscience Holiday Party and Photo Competition at Nouveau Antique Art Bar on November 30th!

This will be a fun time to hang out with students, faculty, alumni, and other friends of the UH Geoscience Department! We will have food catered from Niko Niko's and a cash bar.

There will also be a photo competition! Please send us your entries for any or all of the following 4 categories:

- Geoscience/Scenery

- Adventure

- Culture/People

- Humor

Rules:

- Submit entries to easstudents@gmail.com.

- Include your name, category for each entry, and the image.

- Limit each image size to under 1.5 MB and JPEG format.

- Participants must be affiliated with the UH Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (Faculty, Staff, Students).

- Each participant is allowed 2 entries per category and may submit entries for all categories if they choose to do so.

- Photos must have been taken after December 31st, 2011.

- Submissions are due Wednesday, November 28th at 11:59 pm.

We hope to see you there!! Please share this with your friends and invite them to this event!!

To purchase a ticket contact any of the following:

- Jordan Sayers: SR1 232

- Chris Trantham: SR1 232

- Yunyun Wang: SR1 136

- Antonio Sierra: SR1 136

- Rachel Funk

- Jonathon Osmond: SR1 427

- Naila Dowla: SR1 427

Nick Boyd from Halliburton will give the EGLS talk this Friday Nov 30th

Submitted by Antonio on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 15:57

Nick Boyd from Halliburton will be giving a talk this Friday Nov 30th titled:

"Beyond Factory Drilling: Using Seismic Data for Intelligent Well Placement"

Nick Boyd started in the industry as a seismic computer (1981) and later assistant party manager on a Petty-Ray Geophysical seismic crew. Convinced that his future lay in geophysics, he obtained his BA (1986) in Geophysics from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. (1993) in Geophysics from the University of Wyoming. After finishing his Ph.D. he started as a post-doctoral researcher and later research scientist at the Institute for Energy Research, University of Wyoming. His research concentrated on the seismic identification and mapping of abnormally-pressured, deep-basin gas reservoirs using velocity and AVO workflows.

In 2001, he helped start Innovative Discovery Technologies, and as senior geophysicist continued deep-basin gas exploration in the Rockies and around the world. In 2003, he started his own consulting practice offering geophysical workflows and onsite troubleshooting. In 2008, he joined Halliburton Consulting as a senior managing consultant concentrating on geophysical workflows in AVO, prestack processing/inversion, seismic rock physics, pore-pressure prediction and seismic attributes. Now in the role of Advisor, Geophysics, in HCPM, he focuses on using geophysics in unconventional plays. He is a member of SEG, AAPG, EAGE, AGU, and GSA.

The talk is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 12:00pm in the Science and Engineering Classroom building, 1st floor, room 104.

Pizza will be provided!

This event is hosted by the SEG Wavelets, the University of Houston SEG student chapter. For more information on this and other events we have planned, please visit our website:

http://segwavelets.uh.edu/

"Like" our Facebook page, it helps us out!

http://www.facebook.com/segwavelets

Feel free to share this information! We hope to see you there!

Geoffrey A. Dorn from TerraSpark will give the EGLS talk this Friday Nov 16th

Submitted by Antonio on Tue, 11/13/2012 - 15:55

Geoffrey A. Dorn from TerraSpark Geosciences will be giving a talk this Friday Nov 16th titled:

"Stratigraphic Interpretation using Domain Transformation"

Dr. Dorn is the President and CEO of TerraSpark Geosciences LLC. He received his Ph.D. in exploration geophysics (Engineering Geoscience) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. He has had a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years in research and management. He spent 20 years as a Research Director, Research Manager and Research Advisor at ARCO Oil and Gas CO. He organized, directed, and managed the BP Center for Visualization for five years, and is a co-founder of TerraSpark Geosciences. Dr. Dorn is an internationally recognized expert in 3-D seismic interpretation and visualization, has a number of patents and patent applications in the area of seismic interpretation, was named the 2002 SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) Distinguished Lecturer, and received the ARCO Corporate Technology award in 1998. 

The talk is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 12:00pm in the Science and Engineering Classroom building, 1st floor, room 104.

Pizza will be provided!

This event is hosted by the SEG Wavelets, the University of Houston SEG student chapter. For more information on this and other events we have planned, please visit our website:

http://segwavelets.uh.edu/

"Like" our Facebook page, it helps us out!

http://www.facebook.com/segwavelets

Feel free to share this information! We hope to see you there!

SEG Wavelets: Pre- Las Vegas meeting

Submitted by Antonio on Tue, 10/30/2012 - 17:03

We would like to invite you this Friday Nov 2nd at 12:00pm in room SEC104 to our

SEG Wavelets Pre-Las Vegas Meeting

This will be a social event to meet fellow students and discuss the current status of our student chapter. We will also discuss topics about the SEG Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, including:

- Key Events

- SEG workshop, Technique Program and Special Session 

- SEG Schedule APP

- We hope everyone who has registered SEG Annual Meeting can come and talk about their plans! 

We will also be selling SEG Wavelets T-shirts to help raise money for our student chapter! There are very few shirts so it will be first come first serve!

- Only $10, please bring CASH

- You can also purchase a T-shirt from Tuesday to Friday in room SR1 136

Doug Foster from ConocoPhillips will give the EGLS talk this Friday Oct 26th

Submitted by Antonio on Tue, 10/23/2012 - 16:53

Doug Foster from ConocoPhillips will be giving a talk this Friday Oct 26th titled:

"Interpretation of AVO Anomalies"

Dr. Doug Foster received a B.S. (1978) in mathematics from Santa Clara University, a M.S. (1980) in geophysics from the University of Missouri Rolla, and a Ph.D. (1985) in geophysics from Columbia University. After working as a research geophysicist at ARCO, Mobil, and Phillips Petroleum he is currently a Senior Scientist at ConocoPhillips. Also, he is an adjunct Professor in the physics department at the University of Houston and vice-chairman of the Ultra-Deepwater Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Energy. Research interests are wave propagation, seismic imaging, AVO analysis and velocity estimation. He is a member of SEG and AGU.

The talk is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 12:00pm in the Science and Engineering Classroom building, 1st floor, room 104.

Pizza will be provided!

This event is hosted by the SEG Wavelets, the University of Houston SEG student chapter. For more information on this and other events we have planned, please visit our website:

http://segwavelets.uh.edu/

"Like" our Facebook page, it helps us out!

http://www.facebook.com/segwavelets

Feel free to share this information! We hope to see you there!

Zakir Hossain from RSI will give the EGLS talk this Friday Oct 19th

Submitted by Antonio on Mon, 10/15/2012 - 16:50

Zakir Hossain from Rock Solid Images will be giving a talk this Friday Oct 19th titled:

"How can NMR measurements improve rock physics predictions"

Dr. Hossain is a rock physicist at Rock Solid Images. He obtained his PhD in Petroleum Geophysics from Technical University of Denmark. Dr. Hossain's research interests include rock physics analysis and modeling including rock physics diagnostics, perturbational modeling, AVO analysis, analysis effect of pore fluid on seismic properties including CO2, also rock mechanics analysis and modeling.

The talk is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 12:00pm in the Science and Engineering Classroom building, 1st floor, room 104.

Pizza will be provided!

This event is hosted by the SEG Wavelets, the University of Houston SEG student chapter. For more information on this and other events we have planned, please visit our website:

http://segwavelets.uh.edu/

"Like" our Facebook page, it helps us out!

http://www.facebook.com/segwavelets

Feel free to share this information! We hope to see you there!

Ed Biegert from Shell will give the EGLS talk this Friday Oct 5th

Submitted by Antonio on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 16:07

Ed Biegert from Shell will be giving a talk on Friday Oct 5th titled:

"From Black Magic to Swarms: Hydrocarbon Exploration using Non-Seismic Technologies"

(Abstract below)

Dr. Biegert is the Global Principal Technical Expert for Non-Seismic Geophysics at Shell. He obtained his BA, MA, and PhD degrees in Physics from Rice University. Dr Biegert has worked developing seismic, potential field, electromagnetic, remote sensing, and borehole interpretation technologies for hydrocarbon exploration for over 30 years. He has broad interests in the physical, environmental, and earth sciences.

Dr. Biegert is a past director of the Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing and also of the Geosat Committee, Inc. He is a holder of the Ludwig Mintrop award for Best Paper (2001) at the EAGE and is (twice) a Distinguished Lecturer for that organization.

The talk is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 12:00pm in the Science and Engineering Classroom building, 1st floor, room 104.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

From Black Magic to Swarms: Hydrocarbon Exploration using Non-Seismic Technologies

E.K. Biegert

“Why don’t geochemical hydrocarbon detection methods always work?” Only one third of recent exploration new venture opportunities used surface geochemical hydrocarbon detection methods to calibrate the presence of charge in the system. There are distinct differences between the manifestation of hydrocarbons at surface in these environments, which drive the methods applied and ultimately the way in which we interpret these data. Most commercially-available onshore ground-based techniques are restricted in their application to prospect-scale assessment, primarily because of logistics and costs. Unfortunately, prospect-scale application often results in ambiguous or misleading results. Offshore applications of surface hydrocarbon methods are better calibrated and practiced. Airborne and satellite systems are commonly used in basin-scale applications.

Geochemical and non-seismic geophysical exploration techniques are important strategic components of the exploration toolkit when properly calibrated and applied. In this paper we review non-seismic exploration technologies, indicate recent advances and developments that have enhanced their value, and present real examples and case histories that illustrate the benefits in using combinations of these tools for large scale exploration activities.

Edip Baysal from Paradigm will give the EGLS talk this Friday Sep 21st

Submitted by Antonio on Sun, 09/16/2012 - 13:48

Edip Baysal from Paradigm will be giving a talk on Friday Sep 21st titled:

"Reverse Time Migration: 3 Decades"

Dr. Baysal was one of the first people in the world to work on RTM while he was doing his PhD at the University of Houston. He is currently Head of the R&D Department at Paradigm. Dr. Baysal is also an Adjunct Professor at UH where he teaches the Spring course "Seismic Data Processing".

Dr. Edip Baysal received a Diplome Engineer Degree in Geophysics from the Istanbul University (1976) and a PhD (1982) in geophysics from the University of Houston. He worked at the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) from 1977 to 1979, and from 1980 to 1982 he was at Geophysical Development Corporation (GDC). He returned to TPAO in 1983, worked until 1997. He joined Seismic Research Corp. (SRC) in 1997. He is currently with Paradigm since 1998. His interests are in seismic data processing, elastic, acoustic seismic imaging. He is a member of SEG, EAGE, TCGE, and GSH.

The talk is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 12:00pm in the Science and Engineering Classroom building, 1st floor, room 104.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

Karen Glaser from Schlumberger will give the EGLS talk this Friday Aug 31th

Submitted by Antonio on Mon, 08/27/2012 - 13:02

Karen Glaser from Schlumberger will be giving a talk on Friday Aug 31st titled:

"Shale Reservoirs: What makes a good one and how to explore for them"

Dr. Glaser is Geological Advisor at Schlumberger, where she has been for 20 years. She was previously at Amoco and Exxon as an Explorationist and Researcher, respectively. She received a PhD in Geology from Rice University and specializes in Sequence and Seismic Stratigraphy as well as Source Rocks.

The talk is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), 6th floor, room 634.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

SEG Wavelets first meeting of the Fall 2012 semester!

Submitted by Antonio on Sun, 08/12/2012 - 17:41

Location: UH SR1 room 634

Time: 12:00pm

This will be our first meeting of the Fall 2012 semester. We will discuss the following topics:

- Welcome to new UH geophysics students

- Orientation and tips from fellow students (grad school timelines, choosing an advisor, choosing a project, classes, internships, and more)

- Preparing resumes and interviewing skills to get internships and full-time jobs at the AAPG/SEG Student Expo and during on-campus recruiting - Plans for the society during this semester

- ...anything else that comes up!

To keep up with tradition: Pizza will be provided at the meeting!

We hope to see you there! Please share this facebook event and/or feel free to invite anyone you know from the UH Geophysics department including new students

SEG 2012 Spring Distinguished Lecturer: Samuel Gray from CGGVeritas

Submitted by Antonio on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 12:58

Dr. Samuel Gray, from CGGVeritas, is the Spring 2012 SEG Distinguished Lecturer. He will be visiting the University of Houston and giving his talk titled:

"A brief history of depth…and time seismic imaging".

For an abstract of the talk and a bio of the speaker, visit:

http://www.seg.org/education/lectures-courses/distinguished-lecturers/spring2012/samuelgrayabstract

The talk will be given on Wednesday April 18 at 2:30pm in the Kiva room (FH 101) of the Stephen Power Farish Hall. For information about this building and a map, visit:

http://www.uh.edu/campus_map/buildings/FH.php

For non-UH attendees, please plan to arrive at least 30 mins before for parking purposes. For information about guest parking at the University of Houston including a parking lot map, see:

http://foruhstudents.blogspot.com/2011/02/guest-parking.html

Please share this information with anyone who would be interested! The talk is completely open and free of charge thanks to the support of CGGVeritas.

We hope to see you there!

James Lemaux from Southwestern Energy will give the EGLS talk this Friday Apr 13th

Submitted by Antonio on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 15:43

James Lemaux from Southwestern Energy will be giving a talk on Friday Apr 13th titled:

"Understanding and Predicting Fayetteville Shale Gas Production Through Integrated Seismic-to-Simulation Reservoir Characterization Workflow"

James W. Lemaux received his B. Sc. in Applied Geophysics from Michigan Technological University in May, 1995.  Jim immediately returned to school, attending Rice University where he focused on Plate Tectonics and understanding the southern boundary of the East African Rift system and where it intersected the Southwest Indian Ridge.

After receiving his M.A. in 2000, Jim joined BP working as a geophysicist in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico for a year before moving with BP to Alaska.  Jim spent the next six years working as a development geophysicist in Prudhoe Bay and on shallow heavy oil sands in Milne Point.  In 2007, Jim decided to return to Houston with BP and spent the next 3 years working on the Tuscaloosa trend in southern Louisiana.  Jim joined Southwestern Energy in August, 2010 working in the Fayetteville basin both as a regional geophysicist and as a microseismic interpreter on the Fayetteville Tech Team.  Professional activities include Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), American Association of Petroleum Geologist (AAPG) and the Houston Geophysical Society.

This will be the 14th lecture in our Exploration Geophysics Lecture Series. It is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), room 634.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

Abstract

An integrated reservoir characterization project was undertaken to model major factors which are believed to most influence Fayetteville shale reservoir producibility and to determine whether the model could be sufficiently constrained to predict areas of higher gas production performance.  Objectives of the project were to: 1) Utilize all existing data including seismic to build the characterization model, 2) Perform reservoir simulation and understand data requirements for a predictive model,  3) Understand the impact of production time on the model predictability. 

A reservoir model was developed through the integration of all available well, log, petrophysical, sonic, image, core, stimulation, production, microseismic data and processed surface seismic.  This static reservoir model was used to history match the short- and long-term production performance and its variations across the exploration area.  History matching production profiles of multiple wells is a critical step towards understanding the key production drivers in unconventional shale gas formations. This workflow involves extensive use of 3D surface seismic to develop a velocity model and to distribute reservoir properties.

Dale Bird from Bird Geophysical will give the EGLS talk this Friday Apr 06th

Submitted by Antonio on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 16:19

SEG Wavelets is hosting a talk by Dale Bird from Bird Geophysical this Friday Apr 6th titled:

"M-series magnetochrons north of the Rio Grande Fracture Zone: implications for the early break-up of the South Atlantic Ocean"

Dr. Bird is the founder and sole proprietor of Bird Geophysical, a potential fields interpretation consulting company for petroleum exploration. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston. Dr. Bird is an experienced industry specialist with over thirty years experience in acquisition, processing, interpreting and marketing geophysical data, with an emphasis on gravity and magnetic data. Dr. Bird earned his BS, MS, and PhD at the University of Houston.

Dr. Bird has served the SEG as Chair of the Gravity and Magnetics Committee and the GSH as Editor and as Chair of the Potential Fields Group.

This will be the 13th lecture in our Exploration Geophysics Lecture Series (EGLS). It is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), room 634.

Pizza will be provided!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

Geoscience: Student Research Day

Submitted by Antonio on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 12:56

The Student Research Day is a great opportunity to showcase student's research work by presenting a talk or a poster. Awards will be given to the best presentations and posters.

All student's (BS, MS, PhD) are welcome to present their work. If you wish to participate, please send the title of your presentation or poster to Aslan Gassiyev at: aslan_116@yahoo.com.

Itinerary of Presentations (SR1 634, to be confirmed): 

8:00am - 9:00am - Talks

9:00am - 9:10am - Break

9:15am - 10:15am - Talks

10:15am - 10:25am - Break

10:30am - 11:30am - Talks

11:30am - 12:20pm - Lunch

12:30pm - 2:00pm - Talks

Number of expected talks is 18. The timing might be changed depending on the number of participating students

Posters will be shown throughout the day (8:00am - 2:00pm) in the second and third floors (hallway) of the SR1 building.

The award ceremony starts at 3:00pm and it will probably be in room SR1 116

Spread the word!

SINOPEC: Geological and Geophysical Studies in Shengli Oil Field

Submitted by Antonio on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 13:15

Visitors from the China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) will be giving 2 talks this Wednesday April 4th starting at 1:00pm in SR1 634.

The two talks will be titled:

"Resolution Improvement of Surface Seismic Using Borehole Seismic Data"

By: Dr. Kong Qingfeng, senior geophysicist, Shengli Oil Field, SINOPEC

Dr. Kong (Tommy) obtained his BS degree in Computing Mathematics from Northwest University, Xian, China, MS degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, and PhD in Solid Geophysics from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Tommy has over 15 years of research experience in seismic data processing methodology, cross-well seismic technology, and 3D VSP.

and

"Distribution of Beach Bar Sandbodies and Reservoir Prediction by Seismic Data, in Shallow and Elongate Faulted Basins of Eastern China"

By: Dr. Luo Xia, senior geophysicist, Shengli Oil Field, SINOPEC

Dr. Luo (Rose) obtained her BS degree in Applied Geophysics from China University of Geosciences at Wuhan, MS degree in Geological Engineering from China Petroleum University, Beijing, and PhD degree in Geosciences from China Petroleum University, Beijing. Rose has over 15 years of experience in seismic interpretation and reservoir characterization for turbidites, buried hill and beach-bar sand-body reservoirs.

The talks are open to anyone interested!

Pizza and drinks will be provided by SINOPEC.

Kurt Strack from KMS Technologies will give the EGLS talk this Friday Mar 30th

Submitted by Antonio on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 12:41

Kurt Strack from KMS Technologies will be giving a talk on Friday Mar 30th titled:

"Array Electromagnetics"

Dr. Strack is the president and founder of KMS Technologies, a company that integrates electromagnetic and other geophysical methods. Before this, Dr. Strack was Chief Scientist at Baker Hughes (previously Baker Atlas) until 1999. He is an Adjunct Professor at the UH Electrical Engineering department and has taught courses such as "Borehole Geophysics" and "Electrical Methods for Hydrocarbon Applications".

Dr. Strack received the SEG Reginald Fessenden Award in 2003 for his contributions in borehole geophysics, specifically the development of Through Casing Resistivity and 3D Induction Logging. He has been honored with other awards from the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Dr. Strack has been introduced as a Foreign Member to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for his contributions in electrical methods for exploration geophysics.

This will be the 12th lecture in our Exploration Geophysics Lecture Series. It is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), room 634.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

SEG Wavelets elections for the 2012-2013 term

Submitted by Antonio on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 13:29

This Friday March 23, SEG Wavelets is having elections for the 2012-2013 officers. The following positions are open:

Officer positions:

• President: shall take charge of all the affairs of the chapter and communications with the SEG and GSH

• Vice President: shall assist the President in handling the affairs of the chapter and shall assume the President's role in his or her absence.

• Secretary: shall maintain all lines of communication with the student members, faculty and others through email and social media (facebook, twitter, youtube, linkedin).

• Treasurer: shall maintain the finances and records of the chapter.

• Webmaster: shall maintain the website and keep it up to date including moderating its content (e.g. forums) [must know basic HTML]

• Lecture Coordinator: shall coordinate all EGLS talks as well as other talks by visiting speakers (SEG Distinguished Lecturers, SEG DISC, Training Courses, etc.)

• Outreach Coordinator: shall promote Earth Science in K-12 education by visiting schools and promote other events that give back to the community.

• Event Coordinator: shall coordinate all social events of the chapter (e.g. Holiday Banquet, Spring Picnic, etc.)

Candidates

PRESIDENT

• Jose Antonio Sierra

VICE PRESIDENT

• T. Altay Sansal

SECRETARY

• Yunyun Wang

TREASURER

• Jordan Sayers

WEBMASTER

• Omer Akbas

LECTURE COORDINATOR

• Juan Berrizbeitia

OUTREACH COORDINATOR

• Ismot Jahan

EVENT COORDINATOR

• Ricardo Rosado

• Suleyman Coskun

Faqi Liu from Hess will give the EGLS talk this Friday Mar 2nd

Submitted by Antonio on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 13:09

Faqi Liu from Hess will be giving a talk on Friday Mar 2nd titled:

"The Key to Successful Exploration: Super Seismic Images"

Faqi Liu received a master’s degree in 1989 in applied mathematics from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D (1999) in Geophysics from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked as a research associate in Chinese Academy of Science, for five years, beginning in 1989; he spent one year as a visiting scientist at DELPHI, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

He started to work as a research geophysicist at Conoco in 1999 and at ConocoPhillips in 2002. Since 2005, He has been working at Hess Corporation as a Geophysical Advisor, Team Lead, and now he is a Sr. Geophysical Advisor at the Geophysical Development group. His research interests include depth imaging, multiple attenuation, wave propagation in porous media, waveform inversion and tomography.

This will be the 11th lecture in our Exploration Geophysics Lecture Series. It is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), room 634.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

Michael J. Economides from the University of Houston Petroleum Engineering Department will give the EGLS talk this Friday Feb 24th

Submitted by Antonio on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:55

Michael J. Economides from the University of Houston Petroleum Engineering department will be giving a talk on Friday Feb 24 titled:

"Design of multiple transverse fracture horizontal wells in shale gas reservoirs"

Dr. Economides is a professor at the UH Cullen College of Engineering and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. He has written 15 textbooks on petroleum and natural gas reservoir production and engineering. Dr. Economides obtained his PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University in 1984 and has worked as Technical Advisor for companies in China, Italy, Russia, Venezuela, among others. Dr. Economides is also a leading energy economics analyst and the Editor-in-Chief of the Energy Tribune.

[See below for an abstract of this talk]

This will be the 10th lecture in our Exploration Geophysics Lecture Series. It is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), room 634.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

Design of Multiple Transverse Fracture Horizontal Wells in Shale Gas Reservoirs

Michael J. Economides

Abstract

The game changing technology enabling economic natural gas production from shale is the multiple fracture well (MFTW), a horizontal well with multiple transverse fractures. The well itself can create a stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) that delineates sufficient gas reserves to payout the well and provide continued return for several decades. This work shows the importance of permeability and adsorbed gas in ensuring a well design that will achieve these objectives.

In this work we base decisions about the number and size of fractures and the horizontal well length (and therefore the fracture spacing) first on the physics of production and then on investment economics. Current practices using a repetitive well template applied to all wells in a given shale gas play result in some wells doing far better than expected while others barely pay out. We show that linear flow is likely to dominate production behavior until pressure interference occurs between adjacent fractures and that the time of inter-fracture interference predicted by linear flow pressure penetration is prolonged by desorption.

The shale permeability and the adsorbed gas parameters are used to design an economically successful well while ensuring at least 50% gas recovery in the SRV within a specified period of time. Field data from several shale gas formations are used to provide examples of the well design approach. The gas adsorption characterization typically comes from laboratory analysis, which we use to develop what we have called the adsorption index. Because the gas recovery factor depends on lowering the average pressure in the SRV, permeability and the adsorption index are used to estimate the time of inter-fracture interference, which in turn indicates the optimal spacing between fractures. This work provides insights on the effective exploitation of a shale gas reservoir by optimizing the fracture and well architecture.

Chris Liner from the University of Houston will give the EGLS talk this Friday Feb 17th

Submitted by Antonio on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 17:19

Chris Liner from the University of Houston will be giving a talk on Friday Feb 17 titled:

"Geophysical methods for CO2 sequestration, monitoring, and reservoir characterization"

Dr. Liner is Professor of Geophysics and Associated Chairman at the UH Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. His research interests include CO2 sequestration, reservoir characterization, seismic wave propagation, among many others. He was selected by the SEG to give the 2012 Distinguished Instructor Short Course titled: "Elements of Seismic Dispersion".

Dr. Liner was invited to give this talk about CO2 sequestration as a keynote address for the Australian SEG Convention in 2011. For an abstract of this talk, visit:

http://seismosblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/keynote-address-at-australian-seg.html

This will be the 9th lecture in our Exploration Geophysics Lecture Series. It is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), room 634.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

GSH call for student volunteers for April 2012 SEG DISC & Spring Symposium events - April 10, 11 or 20

Submitted by Antonio on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 08:05

-- A note from Sofia Campbell, contact information at the bottom --

Note – this is a long posting and contains details for two separate events listed below. Typically spaces fill up very quickly so I encourage volunteers to respond to me directly by Email ASAP.

2012 GSH Spring Symposium – April 10 & 11

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The GSH will be honoring Bob Sheriff and "Reservoir Geophysics & Interpretation". In exchange for approximately 4 hours of volunteer work, students will be able to attend the 2-day technical program for free, scheduled for April 11 & 12, (Hilton Westchase), including the evening banquet on April 11 for FREE.

In addition to benefiting from cutting edge talks from technical leaders, you will also have the opportunity to mingle with potential industry employers in a social setting during the pre-banquet cocktail hour.

I am looking for serious interest from 8 more students for the following tasks:

April 10 - 1:00pm – help put registration & course material together at GSH office, (3 students).

April 11 – 6:30am – help set up registration desk; assist with registration & then rotate 1-2 hours throughout day to monitor the registration desk, (5 students).

2012 – SEG Distinguished Instructor Short Course – April 20

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The GSH are hosting Houston's SEG Distinguished Instructor Short Course (DISC) at Western Geco's Richmond campus featuring Professor Chris Liner presenting "A Practical Overview of Seismic Dispersion".

I am looking for 2 more student volunteers for the DISC:

Most important is that volunteers MUST arrive before 6:30am & be available until at least 9:00am to assist with the registration process. Also, some additional assistance during the day may be required. Volunteers can stay for the course for FREE and will get the published materials to keep for FREE if they are student members of SEG or EAGE.

Please contact me by Email indicating which volunteer task you can commit to, so that I can begin to build the Student Volunteer Teams for these events. Also, do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. I look forward to meeting you at one of these – and other – GSH meetings!

Thanks and regards,

Sofia Campbell

Email: sofia.campbell@comcast.net

713.668.5406

Arthur Weglein from the University of Houston Physics Department will give the EGLS talk this Friday Feb 10th

Submitted by Antonio on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 20:28

Arthur Weglein from the University of Houston Physics Department will be giving a talk on Friday Feb 10 titled:

"Removing multiples, depth imaging and inverting primaries: Directly and without a velocity model or any subsurface information"

Dr. Weglein is the Hugh Roy and Lillie-Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Physics and the Director of the Mission-Oriented Seismic Research Program at the UH Physics department. He was the 2003 SEG Distinguished Lecturer with a talk titled: "A Perspective on the Evolution of Processing Seismic Primaries and Multiples for a Complex Multidimensional Earth".

This will be the 8th lecture in our Exploration Geophysics Lecture Series. It is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), room 634.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

Colin Sayers from Schlumberger will give the EGLS talk this Friday Feb 3rd

Submitted by Antonio on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 17:38

Colin Sayers from Schlumberger will be giving a talk on Friday Feb 03 titled:

"Gas shales: a geomechanics and rock physics perspective"

Dr. Sayers is Scientific Advisor for Schlumberger's Data & Consulting Services Geomechanics Group in Houston. He was selected by the SEG to give the 2010 Distinguished Instructor Short Course, "Geomechanical applications of seismic and borehole acoustic waves".

Dr. Sayers is also the newest addition to our geophysics department as Adjunct Professor! He will begin teaching classes in Fall 2012.

This will be the 7th lecture in our Exploration Geophysics Lecture Series (EGLS). It is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), room 634.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

Tad Smith from Apache will give the EGLS talk this Friday Jan 27th

Submitted by Antonio on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 22:22

Tad Smith from Apache will be giving a talk on Friday Jan 27 titled:

"Practical seismic petrophysics: The effective use of log data for seismic analysis"

Tad Smith is senior technical advisor for petrophysics and seismic rock properties at Apache Corporation. He is also the North American SEG Honorary Lecturer for 2011. For more information about this talk, visit the SEG website at:

http://www.seg.org/education/lectures-courses/honorary-lecturers/northamerica/tadsmith/abstract

Many of us recognize him from his excellent tutorial on Gassmann fluid substitution.

This will be the 6th lecture in our Exploration Geophysics Lecture Series. It is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), room 634.

Pizza will be served!

Spread the word!

Fred Hilterman from Geokinetics and UH will give the EGLS talk this Friday Jan 20th

Submitted by Antonio on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 22:27

Fred Hilterman from UH and Geokinetics will be giving a talk on Friday Jan 20 titled:

"Pore-fluid quantification: Unconsolidated versus consolidated sediments"

Dr. Hilterman is Chief Scientist at Geokinetics and Distinguished Research Professor at UH. He was selected by the SEG to give the 2001 SEG DISC "Seismic Amplitude Interpretation", a compressed version of his UH course "3D Seismic Exploration II". He was also SEG President in 1996-97.

This will be the 5th lecture in our Exploration Geophysics Lecture Series. It is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), 6th floor, room 634.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

Calendar Updated with GSH Events

Submitted by aTorlucci on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 14:04

Recently Sofia Campbell (Executive Recruiter - Energy Professional Search) emailed us to remind the students about the upcoming Geophysical Society of Houston (GSH) events and that the technical lunches are FREE for students. If you are not a member yet, please sign up with the GSH (www.gshtx.org) as soon as possible. These events are always insightful and a chance to keep up to date with ground breaking geophysics happening here in Houston. Also, these events are a great place to network and meet people in the industry. In fact, I met Mike Mueller at a GSH technical lunch and that led to the excellent lecture he gave during the fall 2011 EGLS. So please, check the calendar, sign up on the GSH website for events you are sure you will be attending, and enjoy the great benefits offered by the GSH.

2nd Annual Holiday Banquet is a Success!

Submitted by aTorlucci on Mon, 12/19/2011 - 10:11

About the Event

On Friday, December 16th, 2011, the SEG Wavelets in conjunction with the AAPG Wildcatters hosted the 2nd Annual Earth and Atmosperic Science Department Holiday Banquet and Photo Gala at Nouveau Antique Art bar.  We had approxiamtely 80 people including students, faculty, and professionals in attendance.   Based on the feedback from all whom attended, the banquet was a huge success!  In the front room, people gathered and conversed; students shaking off another semester and faculty happy to have grading complete.  The ambiance of the room provided an environment of relaxation with jazz in the backgound and tiffany style lamps to light up the room.  Although people tended to cluster in groups, the atmosphere was anything but static.  Those groups got larger and smaller as individuals migrated around the room.  In a private room at the back, there was a slide show of photos turned in by students and faculty for the photo competition.  At two points in the evening, everyone was invited to gather there where they were given ballots to vote for their favorite picture in each category.  As we progressed, the oohs and ahhs became louder and the sound of laaughter from the humor category grew to a small roar.  As always, our numbers dwindeled as the evening prgressed and the party of the year had come to an end.

The winners for the people's choice awards are as follows:

• Adventure - Dr. Rob Stewart "Summertime at the cottage"

• Culture - Ozbil Yapar "Istanbul"

• GGA - Dr. Bill Dupre "Braided Stream"

• Humor - Thera Grossans "Humor"

• People - Allegra Giblin "G165"

• Scenery - Dr. Bill Dupre "View from Red Lodge"

Acknowledments

First and foremost, thank you to all who helped put this together, specifically Allegra Giblin and Thera Grossans whom got the food and set up the tables; to Dr. Stewart and Tram Nguyen for their help in judging the photo competition; to Lisa Buckner and HESS for participating and presenting checks to our Geoscience student organizations; and finally, a

BIG THANK YOU TO PGS FOR SPONSORING THE EVENT!!!!  Without Jason Jonas of PGS, this event would not have been as grand as it was. 

Thank you all.

Prof. Chris Liner will give a "dress-rehearsal" of his 2012 SEG Distinguished Instructor Short Course, "Elements of Seismic Dispersion", on campus Jan 28

Submitted by Antonio on Sat, 12/10/2011 - 02:28

INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO REGISTER ARE BELOW

As most of you may know, our own Prof. Chris Liner has been selected by the SEG to give the 2012 Distinguished Instructor Short Course touring around the world for the rest of the year. Dr. Liner has agreed to start off his worldwide tour at the University of Houston. The course will be titled:

"Elements of Seismic Dispersion: A somewhat practical guide to frequency-dependent phenomena"

For more information about this course including an abstract, visit the SEG website at:

http://www.seg.org/education/lectures-courses/disc/2012/linerabstract

TO REGISTER: Send an email to segwavelets@gmail.com with "DISC Liner registration" in the subject and the following information:

- Name

- Degree and year? (example: M.S. Geophysics, 2nd year)

PRIORITY WILL BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO REGISTER FIRST.

Each person must send their own email.

*UPDATE Dec 19th*

Thanks to Dr. Liner, Apache has agreed to cover the cost of food and refreshments! Thanks Apache!!

Arthur Cheng from Halliburton will give the EGLS talk this Friday Nov 18th

Submitted by Antonio on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 02:20

Arthur Cheng from Halliburton will be giving a talk on Friday Nov 18 titled:

"How to measure seismic anisotropy from borehole measurements"

Dr. Cheng is Senior Manager of Acoustic/Seismic Borehole Technology at Halliburton. Previously, he was Vice President of Research at Rock Solid Images. Dr. Cheng obtained his PhD from MIT studying under Prof. M. Nafi Toksöz. Dr. Cheng served as Vice President of the SEG and Associate Editor of Geophysics.

This will be the 4th lecture in our Exploration Geophysics Lecture Series. It is open to anyone interested in geophysics and will begin at 1:00pm in the Science and Research Building 1 (SR1), room 634.

Pizza will be provided!

Feel free to share this information.

We hope to see you there!

For a complete list of past and future EGLS lectures, visit:

http://www.segwavelets.uh.edu/egls

SEG Wavelets raised $425 for the MS Walk.

Submitted by agiblin on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 13:44