Geophysical Corner
The Geophysical Corner is a regular column in the EXPLORER that features geophysical case studies, techniques and application to the petroleum industry. R. Randy Ray, consulting geophysicist/geologist in Lakewood, Colo., served as editor of Geophysical Corner from January 2001 until January 2006. Bob A. Hardage, senior research scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, the University of Texas at Austin was editor of Geophysical Corner from January 2006 until 2012. Satinder Chopra, award-winning geophysicist, founder and president of SamiGeo, Calgary, Canada, and a past AAPG-SEG Joint Distinguished Lecturer began serving as the editor of the Geophysical Corner column in 2012.
As seismic interpreters, most of us believe that robust ...
The need to understand deepwater gas hydrate systems is inc...
Numerous oil and gas accumulations are beneath rock laye...
Geophysicists define gas reservoirs as Class 1, 2, 3 or ...
Theoretical models have been developed at the Bureau of Economic Geology that relate fo...
Salt-sediment boundaries are common seismic imaging targets...
One hydrocarbon exploration application that has caused ...
'Cell' phones are in every nook and cranny of the earth ...
Although acquisition design of a 3-D survey has a major influence on the nature and severi...
Intriguing seismic examples are being developed in multi...
In last month's Geophysical Corner we showed that fractu...
Most rocks are anisotropic, meaning that their elastic p...