The 2011 EDGER FORUM & Annual Technical Symposium will take place at
The Thompson Conference Center on the UT-AUSTIN Campus
on Monday February 28th & Tuesday, March 1st
Tentative Agenda
Monday, February 28th, 2010
| 8:00-8:30 AM | Registration and Coffee |
8:30-8:35 |
Welcome! Bob Tatham, Professor, Jackson School (DGS) |
8:35-8:40 |
Introduction to Technical Program Mrinal Sen, Professor, Jackson School (UTIG & DGS) |
| Session I: Shales & Reservoirs: Rock Physics and Effective Media |
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8:40-9:00
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Fracture Density Characterization in Tight Rocks Kyle Spikes, Assistant Professor, Jackson School (DGS) |
9:00-9:45 |
Accuracy Required in Seismic Modeling to detect Production-induced Time-lapse Signatures Alireza Shahin, Geophysicist, BP & Recent Jackson School Graduate |
9:45-10:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:15-10:40 |
Status of Student Research in Seismic Characterization of Resource Shale Bob Tatham, Professor, Jackson School (DGS) |
| 10:40-11:45 | Introduction to New Graduate Students at the Jackson School & their Projects: |
| Sensitivity of the Seismic Response in the Productive Regions of the Marcellus Shale Robert Brown, Graduate Student (MS) |
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| Micro-structural Characteristics of the Haynesville Shale Kwon Taek Oh, Graduate Student (MS) |
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| The Quest of an Explorer for Challenges in Exploration Geophysics Kumar Das, Graduate Student (PhD) |
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| Velocity Modeling of CO2-saturated Rocks from The Cranfield Site in Cranfield, MS Russell Carter, Graduate Student (MS) |
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| Anisotropy in the Woodford Shale: An Investigation Into Seismic Response Differences Alexander Lamb, Graduate Student (MS) |
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| Seismic Responses to Anisotropic Variations in Lower Marcellus Shale, NY and PA Sharif Morshad, Graduate Student (PhD) |
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11:45-1:00 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:00- 1:40 |
Overview and Status of the EDGER Forum Robert Tatham, Professor, Jackson School (DGS) |
| 1:40-2:05 |
Pore-stiffness, aspect ratio and composition effects on rock-physics modeling in the Haynesville Shale |
| 2:05-2:30 |
Effective-Medium Modeling of Fractured, Porous Medium Ranjana Ghosh, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIG |
| 2:30-2:35 | Activities at the Jackson School Sharon Mosher, Dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences |
| 2:35-2:45 | Coffee Break |
| 2:45-3:10 |
Corrections for Distortion Polarization in Reflected Shear-wave for Isotropic and Anisotropic Terence Campbell, Graduate Student (PhD Candidate) |
| 3:10-3:30 |
Modeling the Effects of Chemical Reactions on the Elastic Properties of Rock Corey Joy, Graduate Student (MS) |
| 3:30-3:40 | Coffee Break |
| Session II: Computational Methods and EM |
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| 3:40-4:00 |
Time Evolution of the Wave Equation using the Rapid Expansion Method for Highly Accurate RTM Paul Stoffa, Professor, Jackson School (UTIG & DGS) & Reynam Pestana,Associate Professor (UFBA) |
| 4:00-4:25 |
Petro-electric Modeling for CSEM Reservoir Characterization and Monitoring Alireza Shahin, Geophysicist, BP & Recent Jackson School Graduate |
| 4:25-4:45 |
Use of Seismic and EM Data for Exploration, Appraisal and Reservoir Characterization Anton Ziolkowski, Professor, University of Edinburgh |
| Open Discussion | |
| 6:30-9:00 PM |
The Annual EDGER Forum Dinner will take place in the Santa Rita Suite, 3rd Floor of the Texas Union Building on the west side of UT Campus |
Tuesday, March 1st, 2010
| 8:00-8:30 AM | Morning Coffee |
8:30-9:45 |
Business Meeting / EDGER Forum Steering Committee Meeting (For members and Potential Members only) |
9:45-10:00 |
Coffee Break |
| Session III: Reservoir Characterization and Inversion of Seismic Data |
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10:00-10:30
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Reflections from a Fractured Porous Medium 10:00-10:30 Mrinal Sen, Professor, Jackson School (UTIG & DGS) |
10:30-10:50 |
Comparison of Fluid Prediction Success between AVO and Bright Spot Techniques in the Marco Polo Field, Gulf of Mexico Krongrath Suwannasri, Undergraduate Student (BS Geophysics) |
| 10:50-11:05 | Coffee Break |
| 11:05-11:30 |
Sensitivity study of fracture parameters in a carbonate oil reservoir in Saudi Arabia Mohammed Alhussain,, Graduate Student (PhD) |
| 11:30-11:55 |
Seismic Monitoring of CO2 Sequestration at Dickman Field, Kansas Son Phan, Graduate Student (MS) |
12:00-1:15 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:15-1:40 |
Inversion for Splay Fault Interpretation in the Nankai Trough, Japan Yi Tao, Graduate Student (PhD Candidate) |
| 1:40-2:10 |
PP & PS Wave Image and Joint Stochastic Prestack Inversion in the Same PP Timescale Domain Zhiwen Deng, Visiting Scholar (UTIG) |
| 2:10-2:25 |
Coffee Break |
| 2:25-2:55 |
Seismic Reflection Inversion with Basis Pursuit Rui Zhang, Post-doctoral Fellow (UTIG) |
| 2:55-3:15 |
Greedy Annealed Importance Sampling for Geophysical Inversion Yang Xue, Graduate Student (PhD) |
| Open Discussion | |
4:00 PM |
Adjourn |
