AGENDA

UT-Dallas Geophysical Consortium

2006 Annual Sponsor's Meeting

March 2 & 3, 2006 

      THURSDAY MAR 2: MORNING SCHEDULE
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      9:30 - 10:00 REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND LATE BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

      10:00 - 10:15 SUMMARY OF 2005 PROJECTS AND CONSORTIUM HIGHLIGHTS

         George McMechan

      10:15 - 12:00 SEISMIC MIGRATION AND VELOCITY ANALYSIS
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         Hui Chang        Comparison of parsimonious and full Kirchhoff 
                          migrations 

         Weihong Fei      3-D Common-reflection point based seismic migration 
                          velocity analysis 

         Feng Deng        True amplitude migration: correction for transmission
                          losses and attenuation in the time/space domain

         Yogesh Agnihotri Prestack parsimonious migration of 3-C 3-D VSP 
                          data using ray directions from polarization analysis.

         Hui Chang        3-D full-wavefield acoustic inversion for anisotropic
                          parameter estimation 


      12:00 - 1:00 BUFFET LUNCH & INFORMAL DISCUSSION (GALAXY ROOM)

      THURSDAY MAR 2: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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      1:00 - 2:00 ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS I
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         Ashwani Dev       Correction of seismic AVO data for recording 
                           group effects in the wavenumber domain

         Xiaoxian Zeng     Automatic data clustering and ranking for feature
                           attribute extraction

         Yanrong Hu        Comparison of 5 parameterizations of the elastic
                           tensor for fracture-induced anisotropy for low to
                           high crack density

      2:00 - 2:15  COFFEE BREAK

      2:15 - 3:45 ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS II
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         Martin Nyamapfumba Spectral decomposition, with application to data
                           from offshore Angola (Project Proposal)
         
         Feng Deng         Comparison of migration algorithms based on one-way
                           extrapolators

         Ibrahim Basi      Comparison of parsimonious and reverse-time 
                           migrations in a region of complicated structure
                           (Progress report)

         Xiaoxian Zeng     Cluster hardware update

      3:45 - 4:00  COFFEE BREAK

      4:00 - 5:00 POSTERS AND INFORMAL DISCUSSION (POSTERS WILL BE UP BOTH DAYS)
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        Don Moore        Tour of the Cluster Computer Center (in WT 1.204)

        Keumsuk Lee      3-D facies architecture, and stratigraphic evolution 
                         of a top-truncated, mixed-influenced delta front, 
                         Wall Creek, Wyoming

        Upendra Tiwari   Effects of incomplete parameterization on inversion 
                         of full-wavefield viscoelastic seismic data for 
                         petrophysical reservoir properties

        Weihong Fei      3-D fast reflectorless tomographic migration velocity
                         analysis

        Keumsuk Lee      GPR survey of a delta front reservoir analog in the
                         Wall Creek Formation, Wyoming

        Upendra Tiwari   Estimation of effective pressure and water 
                         saturation by viscoelastic inversion of synthetic 
                         time-lapse data for a gas sandstone reservoir

        Zijian Zhang     Elastic inversion and interpretation of seismic data
                         from Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon
                          
        Abay Aibaidula   Processing angle dependent inversion and interpre-
                         tation of a 3D seismic data set from the Ouachita 
                         Mountains,  Oklahoma.

        Geosciences Department  Overview of Activities in Geosciences at UTD


      5:30 BANQUET IN THE CONFERENCE CENTER, ROOM CN1.212


      FRIDAY MARCH 3: MORNING SCHEDULE
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      8:30 - 9:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

      9:00 - 10:15 RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
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         Keumsuk Lee       3D facies architecture architecture and 3D 
                           calcite concretion distribution in a tide-
                           influenced delta front, Wall Creek Member, 
                           Frontier Formation, Wyoming

         Ashwani Dev       Seismic characterization of gas hydrates in the 
                           Gulf of Mexico 

         Upendra Tiwari    Estimation of effective pressure and water 
                           saturation by viscoelastic inversion of 
                           synthetic data for a gas sandstone reservoir

      10:15 - 10:30  COFFEE BREAK

      10:30 - 11:45 3-D / 3-C SEISMOLOGY 
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         Sandip Chattopadhyay  3D extrapolation with the spectral element 
                           method.....preliminary results

         Cambrey Salazar   3-D, 3-C full-wavefield anisotropic modeling of 
                           the fractured Barnett Shale in Jack and Wise 
                           Counties, Texas (Project proposal)

         Yanrong Hu        3-D, 3-C full-wavefield anisotropic modeling of 
                           a fractured carbonate reservoir in the Borburata 
                           field, Venezuela (Project proposal)

      11:45 - 12:45  LUNCH & INFORMAL DISCUSSION (GALAXY ROOM)

      FRIDAY MARCH 3: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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      12:45 - 2:00   3-D AND 4-D SEISMOLOGY
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         Abay Aibaidula    Seismic impedance inversion and interpretation  
                           of a 3-D data set from the Ouachita Mountains, 
                           Oklahoma

         Yogesh Agnihotri  Preprocessing of 3-C 3-D VSP data for the Vinton 
                           Dome, Louisiana (Progress report)

         Upendra Tiwari    Analysis of time-lapse seismic data from the 
                           Gannet B Field, Central North Sea, UK 
                           (Progress report)

      2:00 - 2:15  COFFEE BREAK
      2:15 - 2:30  SUMMARY OF OTHER 2005 PROJECTS

         George McMechan 

      2:30 - 2:45  DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

      2:45 ADJOURN TO SNACKS & COFFEE, INFORMAL TOUR OF FACILITIES