Proper determination of bed boundaries in layered reservoirs is vital ‎for accurate petrophysical interpretation of conventional logs. In the ‎wellbore, logs continuously measure physical properties of reservoir ‎while the properties change stepwise. This continuous representation ‎of logs may lead to ignorance of some high potential reservoir zones. ‎The main reasons for continuous nature of l...

Abstract Natural fractures play an essential role in the characterization and modeling of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Modeling fractured reservoirs requires understanding fracture characteristics. Fractured zones can be detected by using seismic data, petrophysical logs, well tests, drilling mud loss history core description. In this study, feed-forward neural networks (FFNN), cascade feed forward ...

Recently, the web sites such as e-business sites and shopping mall sites deal with lots of image information. To find a specific image from these image sources, we usually use web search engines or image database engines which rely on keyword only retrievals or color based retrievals with limited search capabilities. This paper presents an intelligent web image retrieval system. We propose the ...

A number of researchers have shown the ability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computer tomography (CT) imaging to detect internal defects in logs. However, if these devices are ever to play a role in the forest products industry, automatic methods for analyzing data from these devices must be developed. This paper reports research aimed at developing a computer. vision system for locat...

An important method in oil and gas exploration is vertical seismic profile (VSP) to estimate rock properties in drilling well. Quality factor is also the crucial point of seismic attenuate in VSP data. In the present study, this factor was used to evaluate the hydrocarbon potential of Kangan Formation in one of the Persian Gulf oil fields using VSP zero offset method. Quality factor was estimat...