Special Sessions

Monday, November 10

SS 1  Recent Advances and the Road Ahead

Session Chairmen: Kurt M Strack and Yoram Shoham

1:30 PM     Seismic imaging: Today and tomorrow—Dave Nicols, WesternGeco (SS 1.1)

1:55 PM    Directional resistivity tools and their business impacts—(Ian) Zhiyi Zhang, Shell Int'l E&P (SS 1.2) (INT. AUD.: 2)

2:20 PM    CSEM: A fast growing technology—S. Ellingsrud and T. Eidesmo, EMGS (SS 1.3)

2:45 PM    Geophysical fluid pressure prediction in the presence of multiple pressure mechanisms and complex geology with applications to deep wells—Alan R. Huffman and Richard W. Lahann, Fusion Petroleum Technologies (SS 1.4) (INT. AUD.: 2)

3:10 PM    SEAM: High-value geophysical modeling—Mike Fehler*, MIT, Arthur Cheng, Cambridge GeoSciences, Ken Larner, SEAM Board, Peter Pangman, SEG (SS 1.5) (INT. AUD.: 2)

3:35 PM    Sub-basalt depth imaging using simultaneous joint inversion of seismic and electromagnetic(MT) data: A CRB field study—D. Colombo*, M. Mantovani, S. Hallinan, and M. Virgilio, WesternGeco (SS 1.6) (INT. AUD.: 5)

4:00 PM    Emerging geophysical technologies for reservoir monitoring in intelligent fields—S. Dasgupta and M.A. Jarvis, Saudi Aramco (SS 1.7)

4:25 PM    Seismic imaging is in the mind and at the fingertips: The future of the seismic imaging business—Francisco Ortigosa, Repsol (SS 1.8) (INT. AUD.: 4)

Monday, November 10

SS 2  Hydrogeophysics in Practice

Session Chairmen: Robert W Jacob and Wendy Wempe

1:30 PM     Understanding the relationship between audiomagnetotelluric data and models, and borehole data in a hydrological environment—Darcy K. McPhee*, U.S. Geological Survey; Louise Pellerin, Green Engineering (SS 2.1) (INT. AUD.: 3)

1:55 PM    Integrated use of geophysics, drillings, logs, and geochemistry in large-scale groundwater mapping—Verner H. Søndergaard *, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland; Esben Auken, U of Aarhus (SS 2.2) (INT. AUD.: 4)

2:20 PM    The application of latest borehole geophysical technologies for the feasibility and pilot testing ASR—Ibrahim Shawky, Schlumberger (SS 2.3) (INT. AUD.: 3)

2:45 PM    Characterization of the Lower Quebrada de Oro, Mayagüez aquifer system using surface geophysical techniques—Deborah T. Abrams Rivera*, U of Puerto Rico (SS 2.4) (INT. AUD.: 3)

3:10 PM    Mapping the nitrate plume at Hanford’s BC Cribs with electrical resistivity—Dale F. Rucker, hydroGeophysics (SS 2.5) (INT. AUD.: 2)

3:35 PM    Site characterization for groundwater using controlled-source electromagnetics—C. R. Miller*, MSE Technology Applications, and P. S. Routh, Conoco Phillips (both formerly at Boise State U); T. Brosten and P. Donaldson, Boise State U (SS 2.6) (INT. AUD.: 3)

4:00 PM    A multiscale stratigraphic analysis of shallow unconsolidated sediments: A new approach for hydrogeophysical characterization in heterogeneous environments for contaminant remediation—Antonio E. Cameron-González*, Camelia Knapp, and Adrian Addison, U of South Carolina; Michael Waddell, Earth Sciences and Resources Inst (SS 2.7) (INT. AUD.: 5)

4:25 PM    Geophysical and geochemical attenuated signatures associated with hydrocarbon contaminated site undergoing bioremediation—V. Che-Alota*, E. Atekwana, and E. Atekwana, Oklahoma State U; W. A. Sauck and S. Rossbach, Western Michigan U; C. Davis, U of Missouri; J. Nolan and L. Slater, Rutgers U; D. Werkema, U.S. EPA (SS 2.8) (INT. AUD.: 3) 

Tuesday, November 11

SS 3  Innovations in Geophysics:  A Tribute to Rodney Calvert

Session Chairmen: Albena Mateeva and Alexander S. Calvert

8:30 AM    Always looking to improve things is fun—Ken Larner, Colorado School of Mines (SS 3.1) (INT. AUD.: 1)

8:55 AM    Virtual source method: Overview of history and development—Andrey Bakulin* and Rodney Calvert, Shell Int'l E&P (SS 3.2) (INT. AUD.: 2)

9:20 AM    Seismic interferometry by crosscorrelation or deconvolution?—K. Wapenaar, J. van der Neut, E. Ruigrok, D. Draganov, E. Slob, and J. Thorbecke, Delft U; R. Snieder, Colorado School of Mines (SS 3.3) (INT. AUD.: 3)

9:45 AM    The critical angle in seismic interferometry—K. van Wijk*, Boise State U; A. Calvert, ION GX Technology; M. Haney, USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory; D. Mikesell, Boise State U; R. Snieder, Colorado School of Mines (SS 3.4) (INT. AUD.: 2)

10:10 AM    Source strength variations and 4D seismic—Martin Landrø*, Norwegian U of Science and Technology (SS 3.5) (INT. AUD.: 3)

10:35 AM    Innovation in geophysics—Ian Jack, consultant (SS 3.6) (INT. AUD.: 3)

11:00 AM    The effect of low aspect ratio pores on the seismic anisotropy of shales—Colin M. Sayers, Schlumberger (SS 3.7) (INT. AUD.: 3)

11:25 AM    The dawn of nonlinear geophysics in exploration—Dirk Smit, Shell Int'l E&P (SS 3.8) (INT. AUD.: 1)

Tuesday, November 11

SS 4  Best of AAPG

Session Chairmen: Michelle Fullen and Michael Srozynski

1:30 PM     Extension, shortening, and salt tectonics at a Paleozoic transcurrent plate boundary: Cumberland—John W. F. Waldron*, U of Alberta; Michael C. Rygel, State U of New York (SS 4.1) (INT. AUD.: 2)

1:55 PM    Seismic stratigraphy and seismic geomorphology of a slope depositional environment: Case study from offshore Angola, West Africa—H. W. Posamentier, N. Drinkwater*, J. Clark, A. Fildani, T. McHargue, M. Pyrcz, B. Romans, and M. Sullivan, Chevron Energy Technology (SS 4.2) (INT. AUD.: 2)

2:20 PM    Turbidity current flow out of channels and its contribution to constructing the Continental Slope—Kyle M. Straub*, U of Minnesota; David Mohrig and James Buttles, U of Texas (SS 4.3) (INT. AUD.: 2)

2:45 PM    New velocity model building techniques to reduce subsalt exploration risk—R. Stephan Petmecky*, Martin L. Albertin, and Nick Burke, BP Exploration (SS 4.4) (INT. AUD.: 3)

3:10 PM    Seismic reservoir characterization of a gas shale azimuthal seismic data processing, prestack seismic inversion and ant tracking—D. Paddock, C. Stolte, J. Young, P. Kist, L. Zhang, and J. Durrani, Schlumberger (SS 4.5) (INT. AUD.: 3)

3:35 PM    The relationship between deepwater deposition and an active accretionary wedge, ultradeep water, Trinidad—P. N. Eisner*, M. Etemadi, L. Benkovic, L. Anzulovich, and D. Jones, Repsol YPF; J. Gerard, Repsol Exploración (SS 4.6) (INT. AUD.: 3)

4:00 PM    Interpretation of seismic data in the Wheeler domain: Integration with well logs, regional geology, and analogs—Friso Brouwer*, Geert de Bruin, Paul de Groot, and David Connolly, dGB (SS 4.7) (INT. AUD.: 3)

4:25 PM    Chracterization of the Sligo (Lower Cretaceous- Aptian) Platform margin in south Texas: Understanding facies distribution using 3D seismic and modern analogs—Christopher J. Modica* and David J. Katz, Pioneer Natural Resources (SS 4.8) (INT. AUD.: 3)

Wednesday, November 12

SS 5  Simultaneous Sources:  Recent Advances and Application to Wide Azimuth

Session Chairmen: A. J. Berkhout and Craig J. Beasley

8:30 AM    Simultaneous sources: A technology whose time has come—Craig J. Beasley, WesternGeco (SS 5.1) (INT. AUD.: 3)

8:55 AM    Simultaneous source separation by sparse Radon transform—P. Akerberg*, G. Hampson, J. Rickett, H. Martin, and J. Cole, Chevron (SS 5.2) (INT. AUD.: 3)

9:20 AM    Simultaneous source separation using dithered sources—I. Moore*, B. Dragoset, T. Ommundsen, D. Wilson, C. Ward, and Da. Eke, WesternGeco (SS 5.3) (INT. AUD.: 2)

9:45 AM    Simultaneous source separation: A prediction-subtraction approach—Simon Spitz*, CGGVeritas; Gary Hampson, Chevron Energy Technology; Antonio Pica, CGGVeritas (SS 5.4) (INT. AUD.: 3)

10:10 AM    Acquisition using simultaneous sources—Gary Hampson*, Joe Stefani, and Fred Herkenhoff, Chevron Energy Technology (SS 5.5) (INT. AUD.: 2)

10:35 AM    Flam – A simultaneous source wide azimuth test—Eivind Fromyr*, Guillaume Cambois, Ruth Loyd, and Jack Kinkead, PGS (SS 5.6) (INT. AUD.: 2)

11:00 AM    Independent simultaneous sweeping - A method to increase the productivity of land seismic crews—Dave Howe, Mark Foster, Tony Allen, and Brian Taylor, BP; Ian Jack*, consultant (SS 5.7) (INT. AUD.: 3)

11:25 AM    From simultaneous shooting to blended acquisition—A.J. (Guus) Berkhout*, Gerrit Blacquière, and Eric Verschuur, Delft U (SS 5.8) (INT. AUD.: 4)

Wednesday, November 12

SS 6  Site Characterization and Geophysical Monitoring for CO₂ Storage

Session Chairmen: Kevin Dodds and Michel Verliac

1:30 PM    Multiphase flow of CO₂ and brine in saline aquifers—Sally M. Benson, Stanford U (SS 6.1) (INT. AUD.: 3)

1:55 PM    Seismic monitoring of CO₂ geosequestration: Realistic capabilities and limitations—D. Lumley, D. Adams, R. Wright, D. Markus, and S. Cole, 4th Wave Imaging (SS 6.2) (INT. AUD.: 3)

2:20 PM    Geophysical monitoring in the IEA GHG Weyburn-Midale CO₂ monitoring and storage—D.J. White, Geological Survey of Canada (SS 6.3) (INT. AUD.: 2)

2:45 PM    Thief zone identification through seismic monitoring of a CO₂ flood, Weyburn Field, Saskatchewan—Alexandre W. Araman*, Matthew Hoffman, and Thomas L. Davis, Colorado School of Mines (SS 6.4) (INT. AUD.: 2)

3:10 PM    Integration of 3D seismic with satellite imagery at In Salah CO₂ Sequestration Project, Algeria—S. Raikes, A. Mathieson, and D. Roberts, BP Alternative Energy, P. Ringrose, StatoilHydro (SS 6.5) (INT. AUD.: 3)

3:35 PM    Application of geophysical monitoring within the Otway Project SE Australia—M. Urosevic* and A. Kepic, Curtin U; D. Sherlock, Chevron (formerly at CSIRO); T. Daley and B. Freifeld, LBNL; S. Sharma, CO2CRC; K. Dodds, BP AlternativEnergy (formerly at CSIRO) (SS 6.6) (INT. AUD.: 4)

4:00 PM    Integration of crosswell CASSM (continuous active source seismic monitoring) and flow modeling for imaging of a CO₂ plume in a brine aquifer—Thomas M. Daley*, Jonathan B. Ajo-Franklin, and Christine Doughty, Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab (SS 6.7) (INT. AUD.: 3)

4:25 PM    The effects of geomechanical deformation on seismic monitoring of CO₂ sequestration -- J. P. Verdon*, D. A. Angus, and J.-M. Kendall, U of Bristol; J. Segura, S. Skachkov, and Q. J. Fisher, U of Leeds (SS 6.8) (INT. AUD.: 4)

Thursday, November 13

SS 7  High Performance Computing

Session Chairmen: Scott A. Morton and Henri Calandra

8:30 AM    An implementation of the acoustic wave equation on FPGAs—T. Nemeth*, J. Stefani, and W. Liu, Chevron; R. Dimond and O. Pell, Maxeler; Ray Ergas (formerly Chevron) (SS 7.1) (INT. AUD.: 4)

8:55 AM    Seismic wave propagation on GPUs—Alex Loddoch* and Bill Volz, Chevron ETC  (SS 7.2)

9:20 AM    GPGPU accelerated time migration for oil and gas exploration—Sergio E. Zarantonello* and Bruno Kaelin, 3DGeo;  Michael Brown, SGI  (SS 7.3)

9:45 AM    Evaluation of 3D RTM on HPC—F. Ortigosa, Repsol YPF, M. Araya-Polo, F. Rubio, M. Hanzich, R. de la Cruz, and J. M. Cela, Barcelona Supercomputing Ctr (SS 7.4) (INT. AUD.: 4)

10:15 AM   Performance analysis for optimizing the finite difference algorithm on FPGAs, GPUs, Cell, and x86_64 hardware—Christof Stork, Tierra Geophysical  (SS 7.5)

10:35 AM   Seismic wave field modeling using high performance computing—M. Käser*, J. de al Puente, C. Castro, and V. Hermann, Ludwig-Maximilians U; Michael Dumbser, U of Trento; Orlando Rivera, LRZ Garching (SS 7.6) (INT. AUD.: 3)

11:00 AM   Pre-stack seismic visualization with angle migration examples—F. Pfreundt, N Ettrich, D Merten, B Shea, S Foss, M. Rhodes, A Osen (SS 7.7)

11:25 AM   SCEC Shakeout2 simulations of large earthquakes on the southern San Andreas—Kim Olsen and Steven Day, San Diego State U; Yifeng Cui, Jing Zhu, Amit Chourasia and Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center; Phil Maechling and Tom Jordan, U of Southern California (SS 7.8)

Thursday, November 13

SS 8  Near Real-time UXO Discrimination

Session Chairmen: Dean Keiswetter and David A Smith

8:30 AM    Initiatives in advanced geophysical analysis for munitions response at ESTCP and SERDP—Anne Andrews, Office of the Secretary of Defense (U.S.) Strategic Environmental R&D Program (SS 8.1) (INT. AUD.: 1)

8:55 AM    Geophysical detection and discrimination for UXO remediation—G. H. Ware*, H. A. Ware, W. F. Tompkins, Geophysical Assoc; D. A. Smith, Zapata Blackhawk (SS 8.2) (INT. AUD.:  3)

9:20 AM    ALLTEM UXO detection and discrimination—T. H. Asch*, D. L. Wright, C. W. Moulton, and T. P. Irons, U.S. Geological Survey; M. N. Nabighian, Colorado School of Mines (SS 8.3) (INT. AUD.: 3)

9:45 AM    UXO discrimination using a multiple-component AEM system—E. Gasperikova*, J. T. Smith, H.F. Morrison, A. Becker, and K. Kappler, Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab (SS 8.4) (INT. AUD.: 3)

10:10 AM    An assessment of three dipole-based programs for estimating UXO target parameters with induction EM—D.D. Snyder*, Snyder Geoscience; D.C. George, G&G Sciences; S. C. MacInnes, Zonge Engineering; J. T. Smith, Lawrence Berkeley Lab (SS 8.5) (INT. AUD.: 2)

10:35 AM    EMI array for cued UXO discrimination—T. Bell*, SAIC; H. Nelson, Naval Research Lab; D. George,  G&G Sciences;  J. Kingdon and D. Keiswetter, SAIC (SS 8.6) (INT. AUD.: 4)

11:00 AM    Identification of unexploded ordnance from clutter using neural networks—Anna Szidarovszky*, Zonge Engineering; Mary Poulton, U of Arizona; Scott MacInnes, Zonge (SS 8.7) (INT. AUD.: 3)

11:25 AM    Digital geophysical mapping using an autonomous robot—Jim Hild, Zapata Blackhawk (SS 8.8) (INT. AUD.:  3)