EDGER FORUM, The Jackson School of Geosciences, UT Austin

The 2010 EDGER FORUM & Annual Technical Symposium took place on February 22 & 23rd, 2010 at The Thompson Conference Center on the UT-Austin Campus. Presentations by students, post-docs, faculty and alumni of The Jackson School of Geosciences are listed below.

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Session I:
Focus Area of Application: Unconventional Resources and Shale Production

Sensitivity of Seismic Response to Variations in the Woodford Shale
Na Shan, Graduate Student (MS), Jackson School

Anisotropy of the Bakken Formation, East Williston Basin, North Dakota
Fiona Ye, Graduate Student (MS), Jackson School

Identifying Jurassic tight gas sandstones using 3C-3D Seismic
Diego Valentin, Graduate Student (MS), Jackson School

Status of Shale Research
Bob Tatham, Professor, Jackson School (DGS)

New MS/PhD Student Introduction (up to five minutes each)
Corey Joy, Yang Xue, Son Phan, Mohammed Alhussain & Terence Campbell

Review of Progress, UT-Austin EDGER Forum
Bob TathamProfessor, Jackson School (DGS)

Session II:
Focus Area of Application: Time Lapse Seismic & Reservoir Characterization

Rock-physics analysis of composition, fractures and effective stress
Kyle Spikes, Assistant Professor, Jackson School (DGS)

Observation of azimuthal anisotropy on multicomponent Atlantis node seismic data
Samik Sil, Geophysicist at ConocoPhillips & Jackson School Alumnus

Preliminary Analysis of Pore Pressures in Atlantis Field
Utilizing P-SV Velocities from multicomponent Node Data
Jeff Kao, Geophysicist at Nexen Petroleum & Jackson School Alumnus

Time Lapse Seismic Response to Production
Alireza Shahin, Graduate Student (PhD Candidate), Jackson School

Stochastic inverstion for reservoir parameters using time-lapse
seismic and production data
Mrinal Sen, Professor, Jackson School (UTIG & DGS)

Session III:
Focus Area of Application: Numerical Simulation & Methods

Seismic Wave Propagation in Fractured Media
Jonas De Basabe, Post Doctoral Fellow, Jackson School (UTIG)

A modified Boundary Element Method for seismic modeling
Yi Tao, Graduate Student (PhD), Jackson School

2D Seismic Modeling based on SEM in triangular mesh (TSEM)
Tao Liu, Graduate Student (PhD), Jackson School

Free-surface Multiple Attenuation using Inverse Data
Processing in the plane wave domain
Ma Jitao, Visiting Scientist, Jackson School (UTIG)

Use of prior and hyper-prior in Seismic Inversion for Reservoir Characterization
Mrinal Sen, Professor, Jackson School (UTIG & DGS)

Discussion of directions and needs (We need your feedback!)

Close of Technical Symposium

EDGER Forum Steering Committee Meeting (For members and Potential Members only)