AGENDA

UT-Dallas Geophysical Consortium

2007 Annual Sponsor's Meeting

March 1 & 2, 2007

       THURSDAY MAR 1: MORNING SCHEDULE
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       9:15 - 9:45 REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND LATE BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

       9:45 - 10:00 SUMMARY OF 2006 PROJECTS AND CONSORTIUM HIGHLIGHTS

          George McMechan

       10:00 - 12:00 SEISMIC MIGRATION AND INVERSION
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          Feng Deng        True amplitude migration: correction for transmission
                           losses and attenuation in the time/space domain (2D
                           acoustic)

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

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

          Sandip Chattopadhyay Comparison of image conditions for reverse time
                            migration

          Feng Deng        True amplitude migration: correction for transmission
                           losses and attenuation in the time/space domain (3D
                           and elastic)


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

       THURSDAY MAR 1: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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       1:00 - 2:30 ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS I
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          Xiaoxian Zeng   Automatic data clustering and ranking for feature
                          attribute extraction

          Hui Chang       Identification of multiples by demigration and
                          remigration

          Juanjuan Cao    Velocity-independent prediction of multiples
                          from slowness relations in common-reciever gathers

          Heru Rusmanugroho AVO analysis of fracture induced anisotropy


       2:30 - 2:45  COFFEE BREAK

       2:45 - 4:15 ADVANCED PARAMETERIZATIONS AND HARDWARE
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          Yanrong Hu      Comparison of parameterizations of the elastic
                          tensor for fracture-induced anisotropy for high
                          crack density

          Qunshan Zhang   Anisotropy of Q; Modeling and full-wavefield inversion
                          (Project Proposal)

          Hussein Harbi   Scattering models (Project proposal)

          Xiaoxian Zeng   Cluster hardware update

       4:15 - 4:30  COFFEE BREAK

       4:30 - 5:15 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

         Heru Rusmanugroho Elastic inversion and spectral decomposition of
                          data from the Ripah Block, Sumatra, Indonesia

         Juanjuan Cao     Processing of data from the Mississippi Embayment

         Ashwani Dev      Effects of array responses on AVO data

         Feng Deng        True amplitude prestack depth migration

         Geosciences Department  Overview of Activities in Geosciences at UTD


       5:30 BANQUET IN THE MCDERMOTT SUITE (3RD FLOOR OF THE MCDERMOTT LIBRARY)


       FRIDAY MARCH 2: MORNING SCHEDULE
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       8:00 - 8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

       8:30 - 9:45 ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS II
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          Martin Nyamapfumba Spectral decomposition, with application to data
                            from offshore Angola

          Ting Gong         Summary of reverse-time migration from the topographic
                            datum

          Ibrahim Basi      Topographic corrections to slowness measurements
                            in parsimonious migration

       9:45 - 10:00   COFFEE BREAK

       10:00 - 11:15   RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
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          Ashwani Dev       2-D seismic characterization of gas hydrates in
                            the Gulf of Mexico

          Upendra Tiwari    Estimation of gas concentration by viscoelastic
                            inversion of seismic data for gas sandstone
                            reservoirs in the North Sea

          Hussein Harbi     Tomographic characterization of an Ellenberger
                            reservoir analog

       11:15 - 12:15  LUNCH & INFORMAL DISCUSSION (GALAXY ROOM)

       FRIDAY MARCH 2: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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       12:15 - 2:15   3-D / 3-C SEISMOLOGY
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          Cambrey Salazar   3-D, 3-C full-wavefield anisotropic modeling of
                            the fractured Barnett Shale in Jack and Wise
                            Counties, Texas

          Qunshan Zhang     3-D, 3-C viscoelastic modeling of near surface data

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

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

          Ashwani Dev       3-D seismic characterization and estimation of gas
                            hydrate saturation in the Gulf of Mexico


       2:15 - 2:30  COFFEE BREAK
       2:30 - 2:45  SUMMARY OF OTHER 2006 PROJECTS

          George McMechan

       2:45 - 3:00  DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

       3:00 ADJOURN TO SNACKS & COFFEE, INFORMAL TOUR OF FACILITIES