News
Hart Energy featured an article covering RCP’s Spring Sponsor Meeting. Check out this link to learn more.
Sponsors selected a reservoir characterization project in the northern DJ Basin, Colorado, operated by Great Western Petroleum, as the new field research project for 2021-2023. Please contact RCP if you wish to join the consortium for Phase XIX, which began July 1, 2021.
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!
Dr. Ali Tura will be presenting “Unconventional SIG: Climate Change, the Energy Industry, and the Role of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage” on May 6th at the Geophysical Society of Houston Luncheon Webinar. Registration link HERE
Dr. Tura presented “Climate change, the energy industry, and the role of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage” at the February DGS Luncheon Webinar. Abstract and information can be found HERE
Dr. Ali Tura receives Distinguished Lecturer 2021 at IMAGE Conference
2021 GRADUATE Nurbol Bekbossinov
MS Geophysics
Where are you from? I was born in the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is a second capital of my country with weather and terrain similar to Colorado. However, my true ancestry comes from a region called Mangystau, the city of Aktau, which is located in Western Kazakhstan near the Caspian Sea.
What work did you do at Mines? I was an MS student in Petroleum Engineering Department working on integrated project with RCP for Phase XVIII Chalk Bluff Project. From an engineering discipline perspective, I worked on interpreting the diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) data to acquire the refined in-situ matrix permeability, large treatment stages with and without the pressure falloff data, pressure-and rate-transient analysis, and evaluation of production data for bottomhole pressure conversion using conventional techniques.
What are your plans after graduation? I plan on finishing up my graduate degree in August of Summer 2021 semester. After this I will be extensively seeking some job opportunities here in the US with purpose of applying my knowledge and getting field-based experience.
2021 GRADUATE Ali Downard
MS Geophysics
Where are you from? Paw Paw, Michigan
What work did you do at Mines? Characterization of faults and natural fractures in the Niobrara and Codell formations of the Denver Basin in northern Colorado using 3D seismic and image log interpretations.
What are your plans after graduation? I will be moving to Houston to work as an earth scientist in the Clastic Stratigraphy group at Chevron.
2021 GRADUATE Owen Huff
MS Geophysics
Where are you from? I am from Macomb, Illinois
What work did you do at Mines? At Mines I did research on DAS microseismic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing. I developed a method that can be used to analyze guided wave amplitudes for different unconventional reservoirs and receiver positions, and I developed an algorithm that uses guided wave strength to classify microseismic events that occur in a target reservoir.
What are your plans after graduation? I will be doing a summer internship at Freeport-McMoRan in data science, and then searching for a full time job as a data scientist or geophysicist.
2021 GRADUATE Balnur Mindygaliyeva
MS Geophysics
2021 GRADUATE Harrison Schumann
MS Geophysics
Where are you from? I am from San Antonio, Texas
What work did you do at Mines? I worked on the Chalk Bluff project and the main focus of my master’s thesis was on new applications of fiber optic sensing and machine learning in unconventional fields.
What are your plans after graduation? After graduation, I will be working for Chevron in Houston, Texas.
THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES GEOPHYSICS DEPARTMENT IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE AN ONLINE PETROLEUM GEOPHYSICS CERTIFICATE
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ADAM TUPPEN
FIRST PLACE THESIS AWARD
Congratulations to RCP alum Adam Tuppen, whose MS thesis “Nine-component seismic amplitude inversion: A case study in the Eagle Ford shale,” won first place in the Halliburton Landmark Earth model competition for 2019. Adam was advised by Prof. Jim Simmons.
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: Geophysics 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 Acoustic 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 Multimineral 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