Interpretation special section call for papers

IQ Earth: Visualizing and predicting the integrated earth

Interpretation will have a special section sharing the theme with the 2013 IQ Earth Summer Forum: Visualizing and Predicting the Integrated Earth. The editors of Interpretation invite papers on this topic for publication in the February 2015 issue to supplement the journal's regular submissions of technical papers.

The IQ Earth Project is an SEG initiative to promote integration of earth-science data and knowledge to provide quantitative interpretations. The goal is to help stimulate a fundamental change in visualizing and predicting subsurface structure, rock and fluid properties quantitatively along with estimates of uncertainty. The IQ Earth Summer Forum and the Interpretation special section contribute to that goal.

For this Interpretation special section, additional contributions are invited on sharing new ways of working, new types of data, and new relationships to provide insights into integration that are driving some of the most innovative and exciting changes occurring in our industry. These will serve as the basis for future improvements in safety, efficiency, and effectiveness in our recovery of more difficult and diverse reservoirs of hydrocarbons.

We invite additional Interpretation contributions on:

  • Interpretation case studies on integration of seismic, well and core data, or, integration of seismic and potential field data such as CSEM or gravity
  • Reservoir characterization and reservoir property uncertainty
  • Quantitative risk reduction and structural uncertainty
  • Inclusion of microseismic data with production and other data
  • Multidisciplinary visualization
  • Interdisciplinary prospecting
  • Geoinformatics
  • Integrated G&G modeling

Interested authors should submit their manuscripts for review no later than 15 March 2014. In addition, the special section or supplement editors would like to receive a provisional title and list of authors as soon as possible. Authors should submit via the normal online submission system for Interpretation (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/interpretation) and select the IQ Earth Special Section option in the manuscript type dropdown box. The submitted papers will be subject to the regular peer-review process, and the contributing authors also are expected to participate in the review process as reviewers.

The submissions will be processed according to the following timeline:

Submission deadline 15 March 2014
Peer review complete 1 September 2014
All files submitted for production 15 September 2014
Publication of issue February 2015


Special section editors:

Rocco Detomo Jr. Rocco.Detomo@Shell.com
Carmen C. Dumitrescu Carmend@terra-iq.com
Huw James huwejames@gmail.com
   

Interpretation, copublished by SEG and AAPG, aims to advance the practice of subsurface interpretation.