There are two main approaches for pore pressure estimation: geological using basin modeling and geophysical using seismic velocity. In this paper, seismic velocity was used for pore pressure estimation. The impact of the input data quality in terms of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and frequency bandwidth on the accuracy of seismic velocity analysis and, ultimately, the reliability of pore pressur...

s the use of 3D seismic interpretation continues to become part of the main stream work process with the industry, visualization techniques also continue to evolve as software and hardware improves. In the past 10 years, volume rendering tools have been progressively adopted by the geophysical community as the emergence of high-end graphics workstations with 3D texture capabilities made real-ti...

Seismic sensors collect massive quantities of data that contain a wealth of information about processes within the earth. Seismologists are increasingly adopting data mining and machine learning techniques to identify previously unknown earthquakes in large seismic data sets. Our new earthquake detection method, Fingerprint and Similarity Thresholding (FAST), enables waveform-similarity-based e...

Geophysical imaging by using attenuation property of multichannel seismic reflection data was tested to map spatial variation of physical properties of rocks in a volcanic area. The study area is located around Miyakejima volcanic island, where an intensive earthquake swarm was observed associated with 2000 Miyakejima eruption. Seismic reflection survey was conducted five months after the swarm...

Recent works have shown that GenLOT coding is a very effective technique for compressing seismic data. The role of a transform in a coder is to concentrate information and reduce statistical redundancy. When used with embedded zerotree coding, GenLOTs often provide superior performance to traditional block oriented algorithms or to wavelets. In this work we investigate the use of Generalized Un...

Minor faults, subsidence columns, coal tunnels and gob are very important in coal mining because they can cause flooding accidents, broken coal beds, added fissures, and gas accumulation. All of these factors will increase coal mining risk. In addition, minor faults also affect the design of roadways. In this article, we have achieved satisfactory results in identifying minor faults, subsidence...

Exxon Neftegas Limited, operator of the Sakhalin-1 consortium, is developing oil and gas reserves on the continental shelf off northeast Sakhalin Island, Russia. DalMorNefteGeofizika (DMNG), on behalf of the Sakhalin-1 consortium, conducted a 3-D seismic survey of the Odoptu license area during 17 August-9 September 2001. A portion of the primary known feeding area of the endangered western gra...

seismic coherency is a measure of lateral changes in acoustic impedance that are caused by variations in structure, stratigraphy, lithology, porosity, and fluid content. seismic coherency is a geometrical attribute that establishes temporal and lateral relationships with other attributes. seismic coherency can be defined by coherency attributes. when coherency attributes are applied to seismic ...

in the current seismic data acquisition techniques, sources are fired with large time intervals in order to avoid interferences between the responses of successively firing sources, measured by the receivers. this leads to a time-consuming and expensive survey. theoretically the waiting time between two successively firing sources has to be infinite, since the wavefield never vanishes completel...