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
THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES GEOPHYSICS DEPARTMENT IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE AN ONLINE PETROLEUM GEOPHYSICS CERTIFICATE
The Petroleum Geophysics Certificate fills the gap between a graduate degree and an industry course. It is taught by industry-renowned Mines faculty with vast experience in the technical areas. Fully on-line, deployed world-wide, and with Mines course credits, this certificate can be extremely valuable for the individual and for any company that wants an in-depth education for staff and management at an exceptional value. https://online.mines.edu/pg/
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