Crosswell seismic waveguide phenomenology of reservoir sands & shales at offsets >600 m, Liaohe Oil Field, NE China

Continuous Monitoring of Crosswell Seismic Travel Time

In two separate shallow field experiments, at two distance scales, we have used continuous monitoring to estimate the effect of barometric pressure on crosswell travel time and thereby calibrated the stress sensitivity of the rock volume between the wells. In a 3 m experiment we found a stress sensitivity of 10/Pa while in a 30 m experiment the sensitivity was 5 x 10 /Pa. Results from a deeper ...

Full waveform inversion of crosswell seismic data using automatic differentiation

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an effective and efficient data-fitting technique that has been widely used to produce accurate estimation of model parameters in Geophysics. The efficiency and accuracy of FWI are determined by the three main components: numerical solution for forward problem, gradient calculation and model update which usually involves the optimization method. The success of t...

Oil Sands Contaminants

Alberta oil sands development.

P olycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a ubiquitous class of hundreds of organic compounds composed of two or more aromatic rings that are released naturally and from human activities. Natural sources of PAHs include forest fires, oil seeps, and volcanic eruptions; anthropogenic sources include burning of fossil fuels and wood, production of coke and charcoal, petroleum refining, and petr...

The Influence of Grain Morphology on Reservoir Quality of Some Athabasca Oil Sands Samples

This study focused on the determination of detailed grain morphology using SEM technology on some Athabasca oil sands samples obtained from the Upper McMurray Formation in the Manville Group which occurs in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. The research was carried out using scientific techniques to understand grain morphology—being a major effect in discerning reservoir quality—a factor wh...