The University of Texas at Austin
The Jackson School of Geosciences

THE EDGER FORUM

Nurturing Education & Research for Tomorrow's Technolgy Needs at
the Edge of Knowledge
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2014 EDGER Forum
March 3 - 5, 2014

Link to 2014 EDGER Abstracts

ADVANCES IN SEISMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIR ROCKS

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Accommodations
Reservations can be made by calling 800-222-8733 and mentioning the Group Code EDG or online: www.austinsuites.doubletree.com

Schedule of Events:

Monday 3 March: 7pm–9pm KICK OFF DINNER
at the Texas Union Building (UNB 3.502) in the Santa Rita Suite (location)

Tuesday 4 March: 8am–5pm Day 1 of Annual Meeting & Technical Symposium
in the Auditorium of Thompson Conference Center (TCC) (location)

Tuesday 4 March: 5pm–7pm Reception with Cocktails and Appetizers
at the new Jackson School Holland Family Student Center (JGB) (location)

Wednesday 5 March: 8am–9:30am Members Business Meeting
in the Auditorium of Thompson Conference Center (TCC) (location)

Wednesday, 5 March: 9:30am–3pm Day 2 of Annual Meeting & Technical Symposium
in the Auditorium of Thompson Conference Center (TCC) (location)

Paper / Presentation Titles for 2014 EDGER Forum
Rock physics: modeling and applications

  • Rock-type discrimination of composition and fabric in the Haynesville shale
  • Anisotropic rock physics modeling for Haynesville shale
  • Error analysis of sonic waveforms and impacts on rock-physics models
  • The effect of rock microstructure on seismic wave propagation: determining effective elastic properties from seismic modeling
  • Application of rock-physics modeling, grid searching and prestack seismic inversion in seismic reservoir characterization of the Haynesville shale

Reservoir characterization and seismic inversion

  • Double difference rock physics inversion for porosity and pore fluid at the Cranfield injection site
  • Estimation of anisotropy in VTI media using mode converted wave AVO analysis
  • Rotation analysis of shear wave polarizations in the presence of depth variant azimuthal anisotropy: a synthetic case study
  • 4D seismic inversion at the Norne field with and without low frequency model updates
  • Choice of regularization weight in basis pursuit inversion

Wavefield modeling and migration

  • The effects of spacing, aperture and infill on the seismic detectability of fracture networks: A numerical wave propagation study
  • Analysis in GPU-based convolution for acoustic wave propagation modeling with finite differences: Fortran to CUDA-C step-by-step
  • Double plane wave reverse time migration
  • Frequency domain full waveform inversion in the plane wave domain

 

Accomodations:
DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Austin
303 West 15th Street, Austin, Texas 78701

Reservations can be made by calling 800-222-8733 and mentioning the Group Code EDG. You can also visit www.austinsuites.doubletree.com to book your room. After selecting your dates, enter the Group Code EDG under the 'Add Special Rate Codes' link. The EDG rate is $189 and is available until midnight on February 10th, 2014. Cancellations must be made 72hours in advance of arrival date. Overnight self-parking is available at $20.00 per night and valet parking is $25.00.

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What is the EDGER Forum?

The EDGER Forum is a consortium of industry participants sponsoring Education & Reserach in Exploration Geophysical Technology -

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BENEFITS of PARTICIPATION include:

EDUCATION
A principal objective of the EDGER Forum is the education of students who have expressed interest in employment in the petroleum industry. About two-thirds of the graduate students associated with the Forum are seeking an MS degree and our graduate students commonly serve summer internships in the industry. The current enrollment of graduate students associated with the Forum is twenty one, with five (3 MS and 2 PhD) graduating in the last calendar year. Since 2000, thirty one graduate students have completed degrees (24 MS and 7 PhD).

RESEARCH
Another principal objective of the EDGER Forum is focused research on Analysis, Imaging and Interpretation of multicomponent seismic data, including P-P and P-SV AVO. The research focus must be broad enough to fully educate the graduated students yet focused enough to provide depth in the research program. Further, with a significant number of MS level (professional) students, many of the research directions are subdivided into individual projects supporting aspects of a greater investigative initiative.

FORUM
One of the major benefits of participation is, perhaps,“community activities” sponsored by the Forum. Oveall, symposia and workshops have provided a platform for exchange of ideas between industry members (contractors, equipment manufacturers and producers), academics and the graduate students. Further, the problem oriented multicomponent seismic database is now being widely used by the entire community. Discussions of research directions by industry and academic participants has led to student and faculty research projects. The EDGER Forum is in an excellent position to facilitate communication between the various elements encourage participation of the overall exploration and development of the geophysics community. As an element of the annual meeting, held in early spring of the academic year on the UT Campus, the EDGER Forum hosts an open technical symposium focused on a topic of interest to industry. This research focus has evolved to embrace Focus Areas of Application.

Focused Areas of Application include:

    • Unconventional resources such as resource plays, tight gas sands and shale production
    • Time Lapse Seismic & Reservoir Monitoring as it relates to monitoring & extraction of changes in reservoir properties
    • Numerical Simulation of seismic wave propagation, imaging and inversion