2009: Seismic Response in Resource Plays
The 2009 Edger Forum & Annual Technical Symposium took place on February 23rd & 24th at UT-Austin's Thompson Conference Center.
How can Geophysics enhance our Search for and Definition of Unconventional Resources?
Keynote Presentation for the Symposium
by Larry F. Lunardi, VP-Geophysics, Chesapeake Energy Corporation:
"Unconventional Seismic: 3D for Hazard Mapping, Geosteering and Reservoir Characterization"
Presentations defined issues and problems associated with successful development & exploitation of Unconventional Resources. Problems discussed included silica content and Anisotropy that may be observed seismically, and the relation to productivity.
Focus Areas of Application enthusiastically supported by sponsors.
2008: Seismic Methods to Address Unconventional Resources
The 2008 Edger Forum & Annual Technical Symposium took place on February 25th & 26th at UT-Austin's Thompson Conference Center.
Presentations addressed issues commonly associated with exploration for and development of unconventional producing assets on land, including: tight gas sands, shale and fractured reservoirs, including the Bossier, Barnett and Bakken plays.
Several cooperative projects with industry sponsors and UT for MS research projects.
2007:Applications of P- and S-wave Methods to Land Assets
The 2007 Edger Forum & Annual Technical Symposium took place on February 26th & 27th at UT-Austin's Thompson Conference Center.
Presentations addressed issues commonly associated with exploration for and development of producing assets on land. This included defining strategies using the information in both P and S wave data. Interactive discussion sessions led to potential cooperative research projects.
Direct industry participation led to potential joint industry – student thesis research topics.
2006:Seismic Response to Pore Fluid Properties
The 2006 Edger Forum & Annual Technical Symposium took place on February 27th & 28th, at UT-Austin's Thompson Conference Center.
Fluid properties considered included partial gas saturation, saturation distribution (homogenous or ‘patchy’), over-pressure, and fluid viscosity. Both P- and S- wave observations will be required to fully address partial saturation issues. The program was dominated by student research results.
As with the 2005 symposium, significant student research results evolved from 2003 AVO symposium directions.
2005: Seismic Response to Partial Gas Saturation
The 2005 Edger Forum & Annual Technical Symposium took place on February 14th & 15th at UT-Austin's Thompson Conference Center.
The program addressed defining Partial Gas Saturation and its impact on applying seismic methods to exploration and production problems. Many of the results evolved from research directions defined in the AVO symposium of 2003.
Included significant student research results evolving from directions defined in the 2003 symposium.
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2004:Successful Applications of Multicomponent Seismic Data
The 2004 Edger Forum & Annual Technical Symposium took place on February 16th & 17th at UT-Austin's Barrow Family Conference Room in the Department of Geological Sciences.
Included Industry participation from a wide variety of organizations.
The program focused on documented successful application of Multicomponent seismic methods in actual exploration settings.
Keynote Speaker: Robert P.
Peebler, Pres. and CEO, Input-Output
(former President of Landmark Graphics)
Implementing New Technology: Getting from early adopter to Mainstream User.
2003: Seismic Attributes - Deterministic and Statistical
The 2003 Edger Forum & Annual Technical Symposium took place on January 27 - 28, 2003 at UT-Austin's Barrow Family Conference Room.
The two-day workshop was split into one day addressing statistical attributes and one day focused on deterministic attributes. Considerable discussion centered on comparisons between the two classes of attributes, as well as specific methods of each.
Topic suggested by Anadarko, one of the EDGER sponsors.
2002:New Directions in AVO
The 2002 Edger Forum & Annual Technical Symposium took place on Jan 28-29, 2002 at UT-Austin's Thompson Conference Center.
Included large industry participation with a focus on New Directions in AVO applications (as opposed to improvements in AVO applications.) Provided clear research directions for student projects, including P-P and P-SV, as well as effects of fluids on seismic response.
Dr. Fred Hilterman delivered the keynote address.
2001: Geophysical Assessment of Fault and Stratagraphic Hydrocarbon Seals
The 2001 Edger Forum & Annual Technical Symposium took place on December 11-12, 2000.
Outlined potential research directions (identified in the 1999 symposium) for future research directions for seismically defining potential hydrocarbon seals and potential for seals. Included industry and other (outside UT-Austin) academic participation.
Dr. Peter Orteva, Indiana University, delivered the keynote address.
2000:The Future of Exploration Geophysics -Meeting the needs of Industry and Academia
The First Edger Forum & Annual Technical Symposium took place on December 6-7, 1999.
Program addressed what industry required from academia. Results included desire for a thesis-based MS and inclusion of seismic acquisition in the geophysical curriculum.
A research focus on analysis and interpretation of multicomponent seismic data was defined.
Dr. Tom Barron, delivered the keynote address.
Led to proposal to form the EDGER Forum at UT-Austin.
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