AGENDA

UT-Dallas Geophysical Consortium

2008 Annual Sponsor's Meeting

March 6 & 7, 2008

       THURSDAY MAR 6: MORNING SCHEDULE
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       9:15 - 9:45 REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND LATE BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

       9:45 - 10:00 SUMMARY OF 2007 PROJECTS AND CONSORTIUM HIGHLIGHTS

          George McMechan

       10:00 - 12:00 SEISMIC MIGRATION
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      Feng Deng        Elastic true amplitude migration

      Sandip Chattopadhyay Comparison of image conditions for reverse time
                           migration

      Bao Nguyen       Comparison of 5 options for source wavefield
                           reconstruction in reverse-time migration

      Ting Gong        Wave equation based processing with application to
                           land field data with strong topography and near-
                           surface velocity variations

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

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

       THURSDAY MAR 6: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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       1:00 - 2:50 SEISMIC INVERSION
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      Qunshan Zhang    2-D full wavefield inversion in the time domain:
                           Defining limits

      Hui Chang        3-D full-wavefield elastic inversion for anisotropic
                           parameters

      Qunshan Zhang    Inversion for orthorhombic elastic stiffness
                           tensor elements: Theory and preliminary steps

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


       2:50 - 3:10  COFFEE BREAK

       3:10 - 4:30 ADVANCED PARAMETERIZATIONS AND HARDWARE
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      Yanrong Hu      Elastic stiffness vs compliance: Theoretical issues

      Hussein Harbi   Reservoir Analog Characterization Using GPR Scattering,
                          Intrinsic Q modeling, and Electromagnetic Property
                          Inversions

      Xiaoxian Zeng   Cluster hardware update and the Texas
                          Advanced Computing Center (TACC)


       4:30 - 5:15 POSTERS AND INFORMAL DISCUSSION (POSTERS WILL BE UP BOTH DAYS)
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         Ashwani Dev      Wavenumber domain correction to elastic seismic data
                          for recording groups

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

         Ernesto Oropeza  Implementation of MZO operator for variable velocity
                          media

         Cambrey Salazar  Full-wavefield finite-difference anisotropic modeling
                          of the fractured Barnett Shale

         Heru Rusmanugroho Sensitivity of 3-D 9-C wide azimuth data to changes
                          in fracture density and fluid content, in fractured
                          reservoirs

         Ting Gong        Wave equation based processing: Potential for
                          application to 3-D field data

         Feng Deng        3-D true amplitude prestack migration

         Yanrong Hu       3-D, 3-C full-wavefield modeling of strong anisotropy

         Geosciences Department  Overview of Activities in Geosciences at UTD

         Authors          Reprints of 2007 papers

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


       FRIDAY MARCH 7: MORNING SCHEDULE
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       7:30 - 8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (GALAXY ROOM)

       8:00 - 9:15 GAS HYDRATE DATA ANALYSIS
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      Gordon Davison   3-D seismic study of a gas hydrate occurrence in
                           offshore Angola, west Africa

      Martin Nyamapfumba  Seismic attributes and spectral decomposition
                           of data from Block 31, offshore Angola

      Ashwani Dev      Characterization and Interpretation of Gas Hydrates
                           in the Gulf of Mexico

       9:15 - 9:25     COFFEE BREAK

       9:25 - 10:50    ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS
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      Juanjuan Cao    Velocity-independent prediction of multiples
                          from slowness relations in split-spread gathers

      Ernesto Oropeza Migration velocity analysis for 3-D anisotropic
                          media


      Ashwani Dev     Anti-alias spatial filtering: A slowness-frequency
                          approach


       10:50 - 11:00   COFFEE BREAK


       11:00 - 12:15   3-D, 3-C MODELING AND IMAGING I
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      Hussein Harbi   Tomographic characterization of an Ellenberger
                          reservoir analog, central Texas

      Yanrong Hu      Numerical modeling of 3-C seismic data for
                          anisotropic media

      Heru Rusmanugroho AVO characterization from wide azimuth 9-C
                          seismic data


       12:15 - 1:00  LUNCH & INFORMAL DISCUSSION (GALAXY ROOM)

       FRIDAY MARCH 7: AFTERNOON SCHEDULE
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       1:00 - 2:15   3-D, 3-C MODELING AND IMAGING II (FIELD DATA)
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      Cambrey Salazar   3-D, 3-C full-wavefield anisotropic modeling of
                            the fractured Barnett Shale in Johnson County,
                            Texas

      Ernesto Oropeza   2-D Multi-component seismic data processing in
                            Barinas, Venezuela

      Xiaoxian Zeng     Automatic data clustering and ranking for feature
                            attribute extraction

       2:15 - 2:30  COFFEE BREAK
       2:30 - 2:50  SUMMARY OF OTHER 2007 PROJECTS

          George McMechan

       2:50 - 3:15  DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

       3:15 ADJOURN TO SNACKS & COFFEE