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The economics of unconventional plays can be improved if horizontal wellbores target facies with favorable reservoir and geomechanical properties. An integrated, multi-disciplinary approach has been developed in order to reduce economic risk, facilitate improved and faster decision making and enable more efficient and effective ...

Commonly fitted by an ellipse, AVOAz is actually better approximated using limaçons. The article begins by reviewing the properties of the original limaçon, then explains how they can apply to AVOAz and finally illustrates how limaçons can help with the interpretation of anisotropy on ...

Marine seismic acquisitions record both primary and multiple wavefields. In a typical processing sequence, multiple energy is removed from the data before migration. However, there may be valuable information contained in the multiple wavefield. To discover this hidden information, reverse time migration of multiples ...

An overview of the general oil exploration landscape in Norway with a description of the Horda survey, concentrating on the acquisition, but including references to the complete integrated geoscience package that will eventually be delivered

In ocean bottom acquisition, receiver side deghosting is normally done by summing together the hydrophone P and geophone Z data. A prerequisite for this method to work effectively is the precise calibration of geophones to hydrophones, so as to compensate for the differences in ...

Low frequency information is required for quantitative reservoir characterization. Because borehole measurements are often (laterally) sparse and preferential towards reservoir locations, there is much uncertainty on the low frequency models away from well control. Methods to improve the reliability of the low frequency data ...

Migration Velocity Analysis in the subsurface-domain measures velocity errors via (extended) image-domain residuals with respect to an ideal reference image and then updates the velocity model in order to minimize those residuals.Because of the similarity between images with similar extension parameter (shot number, offset ...

In 4D land and especially for Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM), changes of the subsurface induce unwanted signal variations that interfere with the 4D signal recorded from the reservoir. A three-month PRM pilot was carried out for Shell on the Peace River heavy oil field ...

In 4D seismic, the velocity model used for imaging and reservoir characterization can change over calendar time as the reservoir is produced. This is particularly true for heavy-oil reservoir produced by steam simulation (EOR). We propose an automatic 4D update of the 3D velocity ...