Our R&D plan is structured about M.S. theses and Ph.D. dissertations, many of which will result in publications and software. We summarize our current plans for 2009 below:
Task |
Researcher |
Affiliation |
Supervisor |
| Further development of tools to calibrate oil and water production to distance of wells from fault/fracture 'lineaments' seen on curvature and coherence. Preliminary callibration to Dickman Field, KS |
Brad Wallet |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Analysis of multicomponent, multiazimuth data for fractures (applied to Ft Worth Basin, TX, Osage Co., OK, and Kansas surveys |
future student |
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| Statistical analysis of GCLM textures - is there a correlation with fractures and production? |
Miguel Angelo |
MS Candidate, OU |
Marcilio Matos and Kurt Marfurt |
| 2D wave equation modeling and migration of karsted faults, Kansas: Do we see them because of collapse features in the surface or because of velocity push-down? |
Rachel Barber |
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Sue Nissen |
| Calibration of thickness, upward fining, upward coarsening, and blocky patterns seen in well logs to moments (mean, bandwidth, skewness, kurtosis) as well as non-Gaussian measures (mode, bi-modal behavior) of matched-pursuit spectral components |
Kui Zhang |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Calibration of production from Morrow channels to spectral decomposition |
Yoscel Suarez |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Development of workflow to compute true tuning thickness rather than vertical apparent tuning thickness listric faults and roll-over anticlines. |
Supratik Sarkar |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Roger Slatt and Kurt Marfurt |
| Wave equation modeling or Red Fork 'invisible channels'. Can we predict if acquiring higher frequencies, longer offsets, or converted wave data, will illuminate them? |
Yoryenys del Moro, Rachel Barber |
Exchange student, Simon Bolivar U.; M.S. Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Seismic expression of reservoir competance with drop in pressure - attributes and 4D seismic applied to Forties Field, North Sea |
Sunday Amoyedo |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Roger Slatt and Kurt Marfurt |
| Measure rock properties of chert from Osage Co., OK. Correlate to attribute and impedance inversion response |
Miguel Angelo and Malleswara yenugu |
MS Candidate, OU; PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt, Carl Sondergeld, and Chandra Rai |
| Calibrate attribute response to coal bed methane production data (Queensland, Australia) |
Jeremy Fisk |
MS Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Evaluate use of S-wave vs. P-wave images in illuminating compartments within the Diamond-M component of Horseshoe Atoll, TX |
Carlos Russian |
MS Candidate, OU |
Roger Young |
| Callibration of Woodford Shale Production to Attributes and AVO/Elastic Impedance |
Yanxia Guo |
MS Candidate, OU |
Roger Young |
| Prototype parasequence well log classifier for shales. Calibrate to seismic? |
Brad Wallet and Roderick Perez |
PhD Candidates, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
Task |
Researcher |
Affiliation |
Supervisor |
| Volumetric attribute mapping of basement faulting, Osage County, OK |
Bunmi Elebiju |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Randy Keller and Kurt Marfurt |
| Correlation of large scale (basin sized) fault and fracture systems seen on gravity and magnetics to local faults seen in the basement on attributes applied to seismic surveys - Ft Worth Basin, Texas. Interpretation within the Ouachita orogeny framework |
Bunmi Elebiju |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Randy Keller and Kurt Marfurt |
| Calibrate curvature and coherence images on vertical and time slices to structural deformation - Mesozoic section of Chincontepec Basin survey |
Ha Mai |
PhD Candidates, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Evaluation of geometric attributes to map shallow fluvial deltaic fan systems on the Gulf of Mexico shelf |
Felipe Lozano |
PhD Candidate, UH |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Evaluation of volumetric attributes to map turbidites and mass transport complexes in a salt minibasin: Gulf of Mexico, USA |
Supratik Sarkar |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt and Roger Slatt |
| Application of Schlumberger 'ant-tracking' algorithms to mapping axial planes on volumetric curvature |
Roderick Perez; Ha Mai |
PhD Candidates, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Expression of amalgamated channels or complex reefs using both the magnitude and phase components of wavelet-based spectral decomposition |
future student |
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| Evaluate use of volumetric curvature and volumetric rose diagrams to map subtle reef features within the Diamond-M area of the Horseshoe Atoll, TX |
Carlos Russian and Ha Mai |
MS Candidate, OU; PhD Candidate, OU |
Roger Young |
| Attribute expression of Cretaceous faults and folds in a transpressional terrain, Chincontepec Basin, Mexico |
Ha Mai |
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Kurt Marfurt |
| Evaluation and modification of volumetric attributes to map fractured basement oil reservoirs - Cuu Long Basin, Vietnam |
Ha Mai |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Map attribute expression of shallow volcanic intrusive and extrusive features and their effect on data quality - application to Chicontepec and China |
Victor Pena, Supratik Sarkar, Kui Zhang, and Zhonghong Wan |
MS Candidate, OU; PhD Candidates, OU; visiting scholar, BGP |
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Task |
Researcher |
Affiliation |
Supervisor |
| Implement 'texture attributes' computed along reflector dip/azimuth (Imitation of work by West et al., Gao, Chopra, etc.). How do these measures compliment/correlate to 'geometric attributes'? |
Miguel Angelo |
MS Candidate, OU |
Marcilio Matos and Kurt Marfurt |
| Prototype 2D self-origanizing maps (SOM) algorithms and display clusters against a 2D HS color bar. (Matlab application) |
Marcilio Matos |
Research Scientist, OU |
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| Develop phase-unwrapping strategies amenable to 4D phase volumes computed by spectral decomposition |
Marcilio Matos and Kui Zhang |
Research Scientist, OU; PhD candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Develop prototype unconformity attribute based on discontinuities in unwrapped spectral decomposition phase |
Marcilio Matos |
Research Scientist, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Prototype Generative Topological Maps (GTM) algorithms and display clusters against a 2D HS color bar. Compare to SOM. (Matlab application) |
Brad Wallet, Tim Kwiatkowski |
PhD Candidate, OU; Research Scientist, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Improvement of attributes to better image listric and reverse faults (fault planes having significant dip) |
Kurt Marfurt |
Professor, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Multicomponent polarization filter migration that rotates components based on S-wave travel path rather than source receiver azimuth |
Kui Zhang |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Migration-driven residual azimuthal anisotropy analysis based on Perez' algorithm for better delineation of fractures |
Kui Zhang |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Suppression of acquisition footprint on volumetric dip calculations |
Oswaldo Davogustto |
MS Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Modification of attribute algorithms to better image angular unconformities |
Kurt Marfurt |
Professor, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Maintenance and continued/improved documentation of attribute software already deployed |
Kurt Marfurt |
Professor, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Improved structure-oriented filtering by reworking current geometric attribute computation into a flow with steps of: 1) dip/azimuth estimation, 2) user-controlled edge-reserving nonlinear dip/azimuth filtering, followed by 3) edge-preserving mean, median |
Kurt Marfurt |
Professor, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Estimate Q from unwrapped spectral phases |
Marcilio Matos |
Research Scientist, OU |
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| Suppression of coherent seismic noise using constrained least-squares migration |
Marion King |
MS Candidate, UH |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Attribute-assisted acquisition footprint suppression using kx-ky time slice matched filters |
Kurt Marfurt |
Professor, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Development of direction amplitude gradients and directional (Euler) curvature |
Ha Mai |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Development of structural rose diagrams amenable to interpretation within commercial software |
Ha Mai |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Develop GUIs for rose diagram generation |
Ha Mai |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Develop GUIs for footprint suppression workflows |
Ha Mai |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Develop GUIs for 4D spectral component QC display |
Ha Mai |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Develop GUIs for 2- and 3-attribute color display |
Ha Mai |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Modify principal component spectral analysis (Guo and Marfurt, 2009) algorithm to read flattened data volumes. Then release |
Kurt Marfurt |
Professor, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Develop prototype Petrel Ocean module that allows modulation of (a 1-, 2-, or 3-) attribute image plotted against HLS by another (potentially 4th) attribute that modulates alpha (opacity) |
Brad Wallet |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Prototype Image Grand Tour (IGT) software and workflow for spectral decomposition analysis (Java) |
Brad Wallet |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
| Evaluate alternative statistical distributions of natural fractures where part of the distribution falls below seismic resolution |
Brad Wallet |
PhD Candidate, OU |
Kurt Marfurt |
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