Interpretation special section call for papers

Exploration for unconventional reservoirs

The development of commercial production from unconventional reservoirs in North America over the past decade has generated a tremendous shift in exploration activity globally. Operators are taking what they have learned and are applying these methods to explore for and delineate potential unconventional reservoirs around the globe.

The editors of Interpretation (www.seg.org/interpretation) invite papers on the topic  "Exploration for Unconventional Reservoirs" for publication in a November 2014 special section to supplement the journal's regular technical papers on various subject areas.

Contributions are invited on interpretation across the broad spectrum of :

  • case studies describing exploration efforts for unconventional reservoirs outside of North America
  • workflows and new methods to evaluate unconventional reservoirs
  • seismic evaluation of source rock: estimating TOC, mineralogy, hydrocarbon richness, productivity, etc.
  • techniques developed in North America with direct application to prospective plays outside North America (specific examples)

Interested authors should submit for review no later than 1 March 2014. In addition, the special section 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 this topic in the manuscript type dropdown option. 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.


We will work according to the following timeline:

Submission deadline: 1 March 2014
Peer review complete: 1 August 2014
All files submitted for production: 15 August 2014
Publication of issue: November 2014


Special section editors:

Karen Sullivan Glaser glaser2@slb.com
Yaping Zhu yzhu2011@yahoo.com


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