Geophysics call for papers:
Broadband seismology in oil and gas exploration and production: From acquisition to earth models
SEG invites papers on the topic of "Broadband seismology in oil and gas exploration and production: From acquisition to earth models" for March-April 2013 publication in a special section or supplement of Geophysics.
Over the last decade, there have been great efforts to acquire, process, and use broadband seismic data. Resolution benefits from broadband of both high and low frequencies. Low-frequency seismic data are needed to build blocky reservoir models. We log blocky reservoirs in wells and to extrapolate such models away from the wells there is value in low-frequency content of surface seismic data. Another driving force behind broadband data is coming from the need to image increasingly complex targets under scattering and attenuating overburdens such as subsalt, subbasalt and subchalk. Reservoirs often are located deep under complex overburdens and whereas high-frequency seismic data is needed to build reliable overburden models, it is the low-frequency content of the data that penetrates to the target areas. In addition, highly computationally intensive wave-equation–based imaging and inversion techniques such as full waveform inversion and reverse time migration greatly benefit from low-frequency seismic data to obtain reliable results and also because cost increases dramatically with frequency. Consequently, the last decade has seen a rapid evolution of novel seismic acquisition techniques to acquire broadband seismic data in tandem with the development of new imaging and inversion techniques to capitalize on such data. On the other side of the spectrum, high frequencies have value for imaging shallow geohazards.
In this special section, we want to capture the rapid recent advances in the acquisition of broadband seismic data. This includes both novel seismic sources (e.g., specially designed vibroseis) and novel seismic recording systems (e.g., multicomponent streamers, variable depth streamers, seabed seismometers, and accelerometer sensors). It also includes new geometries on land and in marine environments as well as new developments in active and passive seismic methods (e.g., seismic interferometry). In addition we invite papers on novel processing requirements, challenges, and techniques arising in this context as well as advances in imaging and inversion of seismic data capitalizing on broadband seismic data. Finally, papers are invited that show how all of the advances above help us improve our knowledge and understanding of the subsurface.
Interested authors should submit their manuscripts for review no later than 29 July 2012. In addition, the special section/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 Geophysics and indicate that it is a contribution for this special section or issue. 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: | 29 July 2012 |
| Peer review complete: | 6 December 2012 |
| All files submitted for production: | 20 December 2012 |
| Publication of issue: | March-April 2013 |
Given the tight timeline for publication of this issue, Geophysics is going to strictly enforce author submission guidelines, covered in Instructions to Authors published in the January-February 2011 issue and on the SEG web site. Please note that normal Geophysics page and color charges apply.
For specific questions, please contact the special section/supplement editors:
