The University of Texas at Austin
The Jackson School of Geosciences

PAST EDGER FORUM
PRESENTATIONS

Below are links to a selection of Presentations given at the 2012, 2011, 2010 & 2009
Annual Meetings & Technical Symposia

Seismic Characterization of Shales, Mudrocks and Tight Formations

2013 EDGER Forum
March 4 - 6, 2013

PRESENTATIONS
Please click on the title (or name) to download PDF

Overview of Student Research
Bob Tatham, Mrinal Sen, Kyle Spikes – Co-PIs, EDGER Forum

Session I:
Rock Physics Models and Applications

Error estimates of elastic tensor components in stress-dependent VTI media
Kyle Spikes, Assistant Professor, Jackson School (DGS)

Introduction to New Students
Sarah Coyle, Patrick Gustie, Han Liu, Jacqui Maleski, Makoto Sadahiro

P-wave and S-wave angle dependent velocity prediction from anisotropic modeling
Qi Ren, Graduate Student (PhD)

Rock physics modeling to constrain petrophysical properties in the productive zone of the
Marcellus Shale, WV from wireline log data
Sharif Morshed, Graduate Student (MS)

A workflow to estimate reservoir properties of unconventional gas shales: a case study of the
Haynesville Shale
Meijuan Jiang, Graduate Student (PhD Candidate)

Characterization of saturated porous rocks with obliquely dipping fractures
Jiao Xue, Visiting PhD Student from China University of Geosciences

Session II:
Reservoir characterization and seismic inversion

Time-lapse seismic data registration and inversion for CO2 sequestration study at Cranfield
Rui Zhang, Post-Doc

Modeling fluid composition in CO2 saturated sandstone using statistical rock physics, Cranfield
Field, Cranfield, MS
Russell Carter, Graduate Student (PhD Candidate)

Modeling of 4D seismic response at the Norne Field
Karl Sletten, Visiting MS student from Norway, NTNU

Gas hydrates saturation estimation using geophysical methods: An application to Krishna-
Godavari Basin, India
Kumar Das, Graduate Student (MS)

Comparison of optical and elastic Brewster's angles to provide intuitive insight into propagation
of P- and S-waves
Bob Tatham, Professor Jackson School (DGS)

Rotation of shear-wave components at non-normal angles of incidence: Black-bear data,
Oklahoma
Terence Campbell, Graduate Student (PhD Candidate)

Estimation of fracture parameters after removing anisotropic overburden effect
Mohammed Alhussain, Graduate Student (PhD Candidate)

Application of principal component analysis to simultaneous seismic inversion
Yang Xue, Graduate Student (PhD Candidate)

Session III:
Wavefield modeling and migration

Practical aspects of numerical simulation of wave propagation
Mrinal Sen, Professor Jackson School (DGS)

Frequency-domain full waveform inversion with plane-wave data
Yi Tao, ConocoPhillips & recent PhD Graduate of the EDGER Program

Analysis of fracture-related seismic attenuation and scattering: insights gained through
numerical modeling
Lauren Becker, Graduate Student (MS)

Suppressing non-gaussian noises with scaled receiver wavefield for reverse time migration
Yi Tao, ConocoPhillips & recent PhD Graduate of the EDGER Program

Double plane wave depth migration
Zeyu Zhao, Graduate Student (PhD)

 

Presentations from previous years are available to our sponsors for download, please click link button below for relevant year and if you require login/password information, please contact Margo at margo@jsg.utexas.edu

The 2012 EDGER FORUM & Annual Technical Symposium took place on February 27 & 28, 2012 at The Thompson Conference Center on the UT-Austin Campus. Presentations by students, post-docs, faculty and alumni of The Jackson School of Geosciences can be found on the following link:

The 2011 EDGER FORUM & Annual Technical Symposium took place on February 28 & March 1, 2011 at The Thompson Conference Center on the UT-Austin Campus. Presentations by students, post-docs, faculty and alumni of The Jackson School of Geosciences can be found on the following link:

The 2010 EDGER FORUM & Annual Technical Symposium took place on February 22 & 23, 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 can be found on the following link: