News Archives
Oil & Gas Investor Highlights RCP
The March 2022 issue of Hart Energy’s Oil & Gas Investor featured an article covering RCP’s current research program. See the article here.
Congratulations to Rosie Zhu
RCP would like to congratulate Rosie Zhu for winning Best Poster for Geophysics MS at the Colorado School of Mines GE/GP Student Research Fair. Nice job Rosie!
RCP Awarded 3 top 25 papers at IMAGE2021
RCP would like to congratulate Dr. Ali Tura, Dr. Frantisek Stanek, and Dr. Bin Luo, on receiving “Top 25 Paper” recognition of their presentations during IMAGE 2021 – the International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy. The SEG Board of Directors and the SEG Technical Program Committee congratulates them on their excellent technical presentations as standout Papers from a field of 709 presented during the IMAGE 2021 conference. It is a great honor to have three papers affiliated with the Colorado School of Mines Reservoir Characterization Project recognized for this distinction. Congratulations!
- Dr. Ali Tura – “Impact of joint PP/PS inversion on shear-impedance estimation for exploration and production”
- Dr. Frantisek Stanek – “Reservoir characterization using DAS microseismic events”
- Dr. Bin Luo – “Near-field strain of microseismic events in downhole DAS data”
RCP Software Release
RCP has released its proprietary software to our Sponsors. Software may be found on the RCP Password Protected Members website – listed under the current Phase.
Congratulations to RCP IMAGE 2021 Presenters!
Congratulations to our RCP students, both current and alumni, and faculty who will be presenting at IMAGE 2021! Also, recognition to Dr. Ali Tura, Dr. Ge Jin, Dr. Bin Luo, Aleksei Titov, and Anna Titova for chairing sessions during IMAGE 2021!
Dr. Bin Luo: Near-field Strain of Microseismic Events in Downhole DAS Data
- Session: DAS 1, Monitoring in Unconventional Reservoirs
- Date: September 27
- Time: 11:10am-11:35am
- Virtual oral presentation
Dr. Ali Tura: Climate Change, the Energy Industry, and the Role of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
- Session: Recent Advances & the Road Ahead: Geophyscis for New Energy Applications
- Date: September 27
- Time: 1:20pm – 2:10pm
- In-person oral presentation
Youfang Liu: Convolutional Neural Network for Guided-Wave Energy Identification in Microseismic DAS Data
- Session: BG 1, Advances in Borehole Geophysical Methods 1
- Date: September 27
- Time: 1:45pm – 2:10p
- Virtual oral presentation
Xiaoyu Zhu: Analysis of Cross-well Fracture Hits in DJ Basin, Colorado using Low-Frequency DAS Data
- Session: DAS P1, Reservoir Characterization and Low-Frequency Distributed Acoutstic Sensing
- Date: September 27
- Time: 1:45pm – 2:10pm
- In-person poster presentation
Dr. Frantisek Stanek: Reservoir Characterization Using DAS Microseismic Events
- Session: DAS P1, Reservoir Characterization and Low-Frequency Distributed Acoustic Sensing
- Date: September 27
- Time: 2:10pm – 2:35 pm
- In-person poster presentation
Harrison Schumann: Near-wellbore Hydraulic Fracture Connectivity Inferred by Tube Waves in DAS Perf Shot Records
- Session: BG 1, Advances in Borehole Geophysical Methods 1
- Date: September 27
- Time: 3:40pm – 4:05pm
- Virtual oral presentation
Dr. Ali Tura: Joint PP/PS Inversion
- Session: AVOSI 2 Algorithms, Methodology, and Case Studies 2
- Date: September 28
- Time: 10:20am – 10:45am
- In-person oral presentation
Liwei Cheng: Bayesian Inversion for Rock Composition and Petrophysical Endpoints in Multimeineral Analysis
- Session: RP P3, Application 1
- Date: September 29
- Time: 9:15am – 9:40am
- In-person poster presentation
Dr. Yanrui Ning: A Machine Learning-based New MVA Workflow to Find Correlations in Complex Datasets Applied to Fracture Diagnostics
- Session: MLDA P6, Modeling and Other Applications 1
- Date: September 29
- Time: 9:15am – 9:40am
- In-person poster presentation
Anna Titova: Empirical Analysis of Compressive Sensing Reconstruction Using the Curvelet Transform: SEAM Barrett Model
- Session: ACQ P2, Developments in Acquisition 1
- Date: September 29
- Time: 10:45am – 11:10am
- In-person poster presentation
Anna Titova: Two-stage Sampling – A Novel Approach for Compressive Sensing Seismic Acquisition
- Session: ACQ P2
- Date: September 29
- Time: 10:20am – 10:45am
- In-person poster presentation
Congratulations to Owen Huff
Congratulations to Owen Huff on receiving Honorable Mention for Best Paper in The Leading Edge in 2020 for his paper “Validating the origin of microseismic events in target reservoir using guided waves recorded by DAS”.
(https://doi.org/10.1190/tle39110776.1)
Due to the special velocity structure of the Eagle Ford formation, only the microseismic events inside or close to the reservoir excite strong guided wave energy, which DAS can capture and identify. This method differentiates events that are most related to stimulation and production, significantly reducing event location uncertainty. This method also makes it feasible to use a single straight fiber to locate the microseismic events significant to Eagle Ford optimization.
Owen defended his Master’s thesis in May 2021 and became a proud RCP alumnus. We wish him great success in his future career!
RCP Highlighted in Hart Energy
Hart Energy covered the 2021 Spring Sponsor Meeting with a great article highlighting RCP’s current program. The original publication can be found at this link HERE
Spring Sponsors’ Meeting Thank You
Thank you to all who attended the RCP Spring Sponsors’ Meeting. In total, members were able to see 22 technical presentations, 15 RCP students, 2 Invited Talks, and Phase 19 Project Candidate presentations. Meeting reports and presentations will be posted in the sponsor area of the RCP website as of May 10th.