2017
November 6th, 2017
The final shakeout phase of the 2014 energy bear market is now underway – what happens from there?
Josef Schachter
November 1st, 2017
Hydraulic Fracturing Completion Volume is Associated with Induced Earthquake Productivity in the Duvernay Play
Ryan Schultz
October 19th, 2017
Geophysics Giving Hydrogeologists What They Want: Hydraulic Conductivity, Fracture Characterization, Seepage Zones, And Flow
Paul Bauman
October 10th, 2017
The (Geo)Science of Safety: How Geoscientists are Making Potash Mines Safer
By Craig Funk, P.Eng, P.Geo
September 11th, 2017
New technologies for permanent reservoir monitoring - the CaMI Field Research Station
Don Lawton
June 8th, 2017
Utilizing Hybrid Array to Distinguish between Hydraulically Connected (Wet) and Stress Induced (Dry) Microseismic Events
Natalia Verkhovtseva
April 24th, 2017
Seismic amplitude fidelity and its impact on 3D and 4D seismic interpretation
Paul Hatchell
March 27th, 2017
Two Workflows for Image-Based Near-Surface Modeling for Statics Corrections and for Circumventing Velocity Uncertainty in Subsurface Imaging of Complex Structures
Öz Yilmaz
February 27th, 2017
Marcellus/Utica Shale PSDM Case Study – Improved Structural Imaging and Rock Properties
Dr. Morgan Brown
February 23rd, 2017
Quality Control During Microseismic Reprocessing: Utilizing Synthetic Seismograms to Validate Result
Shawn Maxwell
February 21st, 2017
6D interpolation and its efficacy to preserve structure in challenging scenarios
Mark Ng* and Dan Negut
January 30th, 2017
Fluid Injection and Seismic Activity in the northern Montney Play, British Columbia, with Special Reference to the August 17, 2015 Mw 4.6 Induced Earthquake
Alireza Mahani
2016
December 13th, 2016
Can we predict and manage the risk of injection-induced seismicity?
Dr. Mark Zoback
November 28th, 2016
Assessing Microseismicity Derived Fracture Distributions Utilizing Scanlines and Topological Approaches for Reservoir Model Development
Dr. Ted Urbancic
November 22nd, 2016
Formulating a Seismic Value Proposition for Oil Sands SAGD: A review of the continually evolving understanding and acceptance of the return on investment of seismic information
Vince P. Rodych, P.Eng.
November 21st, 2016
New and not-so-new applications of low-rank matrix and tensor completion to seismic data processing
Mauricio D. Sacchi
October 31st, 2016
Integrating Data – How Geophysicists and Engineers Can Work Together to Improve Hydraulic Fracturing
Dr. Jennifer L. Miskimins
October 18th, 2016
Optimal Station Placement during Seismic Acquisition: an examination of cost-effective methods for trace infilling around surface exclusions
Andrea Crook, P.Geoph
September 28th, 2016
Made to Measure: On the Performance and Limitations of the Seismic Instrumentation
Dario Baturan
June 23rd, 2016
Linking Fossil Reefs with Earthquakes: Geologic insight to where induced seismicity occurs in Alberta
Ryan Schultz
May 16th, 2016
The New in Microseismic-based Prediction of Ultimate Stage by Stage SRV Through Engineering
Claudio Virues
May 11th, 2016
Density Estimation from Pre-stack Seismic Inversion – An Interpreter’s Perspective
Fred M. Peterson
February 24th, 2016
An analytical approach to hydraulic fracturing and induced seismicity monitoring
John Duhault
2015
December 14th, 2015
Imaging the Overturned Limb of a Footwall Syncline and its Impact on Exploration in Fold and Thrust Belts
Andrew C. Newson
October 26th, 2015
The Total Solution to Near Surface Problem in Complex Exploration Areas
Liansheng Liu
September 29th, 2015
Hiding in Plain Sight: Improving seismic resolution through diffraction imaging
Carter Edie
June 23rd, 2015
Enhanced Downhole Processing Using Matched Filtering Analysis
Dave Eaton & Enrico Caffagni
April 28th, 2015
Seismic monitoring in Alberta and Subsurface Order #2 (Monitoring and Reporting of Seismicity in the Vicinity of Hydraulic Fracturing Operations in the Duvernay Zone, Fox Creek, Alberta
Todd Shipman
April 15th, 2015
Imaging the Overturned Limb of a Footwall Syncline and its Impact on Exploration in Fold and Thrust Belts
Andrew C. Newson
March 30th, 2015
Known Knowns, Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns in Land Exploration Seismology
Peter Cary
March 24th, 2015
Improving Hypocenter Depth Accuracy at Graham BC – A passive seismic monitoring case study
Andy Gamp
February 25th, 2015
Geomechanical modeling of induced microseismicity
Mirko van der Baan, Drew Chorney, Vincent Roche
February 23rd, 2015
Signal processing and physics-based approaches to seismic data regularization
Aaron Stanton
February 17th, 2015
Predicting internal multiples: basic ideas and parameter choices
Dr. Kristopher Innanen
January 26th, 2015
2b or not 2b? Interpreting magnitude distributions from microseismic catalogs
Dr. David Eaton
January 21st, 2015
Jambi Merang Carbonate Gas Reservoir, onshore Sumatra: Using 3D Seismic Attributes to guide Porosity Modelling
Robin Owens
2014
December 15th, 2014
Integrating Production Analysis with Microseismic and Fracture Modeling to Characterize Hydraulic Fractures
Chris Clarkson
November 17th, 2014
Review of SEG/SPE/ARMA Injection Induced Seismicity Workshop”, and “Liability Arising from Induced Seismicity in Canada”
Shawn Maxwell, Paige Snelling and Allan Ingleson
September 29th, 2014
A tutorial on Beylkin determinants and their application to converted-wave migration weights
Chuck Ursenbach
September 11th, 2014
Joint inversion of multiphysics data for petrophysical and engineering properties
Aria Abubakar
April 28th, 2014
Seismic Imaging in the Presence of Strong Contrasts – How forgetful are seismic waves?
Bernd Milkereit
April 14th, 2014
The inferred Calgary frost quake of March 4, 2014: An analog for hydraulic fracturing?
Dr. David Eaton
March 31st, 2014
A journey through time in search of Arabian giants – Oil/gas fields, recording channels, and petabytes
Peter I. Pecholcs
March 19th, 2014
What is the state of stress in the earth? A tutorial on measuring stress in the Earth for Geophysicists by a Geophysicist who measures stress
Douglas Schmitt
January 20th, 2014
Geophysical Evaluation of an Offshore Miocene Oil Prospect, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
Kathleen Dorey
2013
December 17th, 2013
Microseismic without dots – A probabilistic view of microseismic data
Ulrich Zimmer
December 16th, 2013
Asteroseismology: Stealing the Geoseismologists’ Rule Book and Launching it into Space
Jaymie Matthews
December 11th, 2013
Practical Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Seismic Reservoir Characterization
Azer Mustaqeem
September 17th, 2013
Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Micro-Seismic Detection and Interpretation
Paul Webster
June 3rd, 2013
Passive Seismic Monitoring for Casing Integrity and Beyond
Jennifer Sawatzky* and Arslan Akhmetov**
April 25th, 2013
Elucidating Paleo Depositional Environments from 3D Seismic 'Solving for One Part of the Hydrocarbon Accumulation Puzzle'
Trevor Johnson
April 10th, 2013
To what extent do earthquakes induced by fluid injection at depth contribute to the seismic hazard?
Art McGarr
March 26th, 2013
Characterization of Shale Gas Reservoirs Using Seismic and Well Data at Horn River, Canada
Olga Rehkopf
March 19th, 2013
Seismic Surveillance - Highlights from 10 years of full field permanent seismic monitoring of the Valhall field
Olav Inge Barkved
March 11th, 2013
Tuning in to Lower Frequency Events – Monitoring Induced Seismicity from a Hydraulic Fracture Program
Jason Hendrick
February 20th, 2013
The Importance of Slow Slip on Faults During Multi-Stage Hydraulic Fracturing
Professor Mark Zoback
February 19th, 2013
Seismic Interferometry and Beyond – Harvesting Signal from Coherent Noise
Gerard T. Schuster
January 23rd, 2013
Post-earthquake seismic reflection survey, Christchurch, New Zealand, with some new insights into faults
Dr. Don Lawton
January 16th, 2013
Interference and the art of static correction: Raypath interferometry
David C. Henley
2012
December 17th, 2012
A Broadband Processing Technology Applicable to Conventional Streamer Data
Zhengzheng (Joe) Zhou
2013
December 12th, 2012
Integrated microseismic and surface multicomponent seismic monitoring of hydraulic fracture stimulations, Pouce Coupe Field, AB
Tom Davis and Chris Steinhoff
2012
2013
October 23rd, 2012
Horn River Microseismic Acquisition: Designing a Shallow Array
Neil Taylor, Paige Snelling, Mark Stacey, and Dave Abbott
2012
October 16th, 2012
A Practical Perspective on APEGA’s Guideline for Ethical Use of Geophysical Data
Lee Hunt
2013
2012
September 12th, 2012
4D study of secondary recovery utilizing THAI® from a Saskatchewan heavy oil reservoir
Kurt Wikel / Rob Kendall
April 23rd, 2012
Microseismic Imaging of Hydraulic Fractures: Snap, Crackle and Pops of Shale Reservoirs
Shawn Maxwell
2013
2012
March 26th, 2012
Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Geophysical Measurement, Monitoring & Verification
Barbara Cox
March 7th, 2012
Cost efficient acquisition to reduce coarse land 3D line spacings through beyond Nyquist interpolation
Bill Goodway
January 31st, 2012
Texture Analysis of High Resolution Aeromagnetic Data to Delineate Geological Features in the Horn River Basin, NE British Columbia
Hassan H. Hassan
January 23rd, 2012
Quantitative Interpretation, New Challenges, and Economic Value
Lee Hunt, P.Geoph
2011
December 12th, 2011
Practical Seismic Petrophysics: The Effective Use of Log Data for Seismic Analysis
Tad Smith
October 12th, 2011
Imaging the Earth’s near surface: The why and how of applied geophysics for the 21st century
Doug Oldenburg
September 12th, 2011
The Use of 3-component Seismic Data to Identify Sweet Spots in Fractured Bakken Reservoirs
Scott Stockton
June 21st, 2011
Integration of well results, forward modeling and duplex wave migration to improve reservoir fracture characterization
Brian Link
April 11th, 2011
Virtual Source Method for Imaging and Monitoring Below Complex Overburden
Andrey Bakulin
February 14th, 2011
Advances in “True Volume” Interpretation of Structure and Stratigraphy in 3D Volumes
Geoffrey A. Dorn
January 18th, 2011
Quantitative Estimates of Fracture Density Variations: Further Perspectives
Lee Hunt
2010
November 23rd, 2010
Beauty algorithm, eh? (A perspective on Canadian processing innovation)
Mike Perz
September 20th, 2010
Tensor Analysis of 5D Seismic Data with Application to De-noising and Regularization
Maurcio D. Sacchi
April 20th, 2010
An Unsophisticated Look at Curvelets and How to use them for Seismic Data Processing
Dr. Mostafa Naghizadeh
March 25th, 2010
A Tutorial on Airborne Electromagnetic Methods and Some Examples from Mineral Exploration, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Water Exploration
Richard Smith
February 10th, 2010
Characterization of a Heavy Oil Reservoir using Vp/Vs Ratios and Neural Network Analysis
Carmen Dumitrescu
January 11th, 2010
The Old and New in Noise Removal, Wavefield Representation and Data Regularization
Mauricio Sacchi
2009
October 14th, 2009
Interpreting Fractures Through 3D Seismic Discontinuity Attributes and Their Visualization
Satinder Chopra
April 28th, 2009
Using Full-Wave, Full Azimuth Seismic Data to Exploit a Tight Fractured Gas Reservoir
Mike Hall
March 30th, 2009
A New View of the Continent Beneath Our Feet – LITHOPROBE's Scientific, Economic and Social Contributions
Dr. Ron M. Clowes
February 18th, 2009
Connecting Active and Passive Seismic to Describe Geomechanical Rock Properties
Bill Goodway
January 20th, 2009
The Effectiveness of Seismic Fracture Detection Techniques in Tight Reservoirs – Examples from WCSB
Christian Abaco
2008
December 15th, 2008
Interpolation, PSTM, & AVO for Viking and Nisku Targets in West Central Alberta
Lee Hunt*, Jon Downton
October 6th, 2008
Oil Sands Reservoir Characterization – An Integrated Approach
Laurie Weston Bellman
September 15th, 2008
Aggressively Passive: Microseismic opportunities over an oilfield’s life
Peter M. Duncan
June 16th, 2008
Quantitative Interpretation of 4D Seismic data for Thermal EOR Applications
Keith Hirsche
April 28th, 2008
Keep an eye on your basement! – the 3D version
Dr. John Peirce*, D. Caulfield, B. Charters, D. Ion, H. Hassan, R. Kolesar
January 21st, 2008
Seismic Characterization of Gas Hydrates and Associated Fluid Flow on Passive and Active Continental Margins: Examples from New Zealand
Andrew Gorman
2007
December 10th, 2007
Geophysical Surveys at Tel Yavne, Israel: 5,000 Years of Buried History
Paul Bauman
November 13th, 2007
CO2 Storage and EOR: Monitoring Injection with Time-lapse VSPs
Marcia L. Couëslan
November 5th, 2007
Preparing for the Future in Geophysics: Out of the Darkness and into the “Lite”
Alan J. Cohen, Ph.D.
September 12th, 2007
Anisotropic PP and PSv Prestack Depth Migration of 4C (OBC) Seismic Data, Offshore Trinidad
Tony Johns
April 23rd, 2007
Simultaneous AVO Inversion for Leading Edge - Integrated Seismic Reservoir Characterization
Dr. Matt Brzostowski
February 12th, 2007
U.K. North Sea Case Study: Seismic Interpretation Workflow for Field Development Studies and Enhance
Rainer Tonn
January 22nd, 2007
Curvature and Iconic Coherence – Attributes adding value to 3D seismic data interpretation
Satinder Chopra
2006
December 12th, 2006
Strange but True Stories of PreStack Depth Imaging
Paul Anderson* and Rachel Newrick**
November 27th, 2006
Multicomponent Case Study One Company’s Experience in Eastern Alberta
Paul Anderson & Ron Larson
October 18th, 2006
White Rose Seismic with Well Data Constraints – Less Art and More Science: A Case History
Ayiaz Kaderali
September 18th, 2006
An example of a fully integrated Reservoir Characterization project utilizing well data, fluid substitutions, elastic modeling, production history, seismic and AVO attributes
Brian Schulte
June 19th, 2006
The Effects of Interbed Multiples and Attenuation (Q) on the Mapping of Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs
John D. Logel
April 26th, 2006
Reducing Reservoir Risk Using 3D-Seismic Based Stratigraphic and Geomorphologic Analyses
Henry W. Posamentier
February 27th, 2006
Structural Setting and Petroleum Potential of the Orphan Basin, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador
Michael Enachescu
January 23rd, 2006
Seismic Inversion – Still the Best Tool for Reservoir Characterization
John Pendrel
2005
December 12th, 2005
The Developing World Can Afford to Light Itself Up (It Just Needs a Wee Bit of Help!)
Dave Irvine-Halliday
November 21st, 2005
A Stable, Accurate, and Efficient Approach to Explicit Depth Migration
Dr. Gary Margrave
September 21st, 2005
High Resolution 3D Seismic Imaging Using 3C Data from Large Borehole Seismic Arrays
Björn Paulsson
March 29th, 2005
Great Challenges and Opportunities in Geophysics: the state of our technology, our business and the SEG
Craig J. Beasley
February 28th, 2005
Limitations of Deterministic and Advantages of Stochastic Seismic Inversion
Ashley Francis
January 24th, 2005
Microseismic and Time-lapse Seismic Monitoring of a Heavy Oil Extraction Process at Peace River, Canada
Peter R. McGillivray
2004
December 13th, 2004
Fracture Detection using 3D Azimuthal AVO
David Gray and Dragana Todorovic-Marinic
October 19th, 2004
The Winds of Change: Anisotropic Rocks... their preferred direction of Fluid Flow and their associated Seismic Signatures
Heloise B. Lynn
September 21st, 2004
Cretaceous (Brookian) Deep-Water Deposits of the Alaskan North Slope: Evidence from 3D Seismic Data
Henry Posamentier
June 14th, 2004
Multicomponent Seismic Applications in Coalbed Methane Development
Sarah E. Trend* and Don C. Lawton**
April 26th, 2004
Earth Model Complexity and Risk Description in Resource Exploration and Development
William L. Abriel
January 26th, 2004
AVO Analysis in the Presence of NMO Stretch and Offset Dependent Tuning
Jon Downton
2003
October 20th, 2003
Visualization and Volume Interpretation in Geoscience: 3-D Seismic and Beyond
Steven R. May
May 26th, 2003
Mars in Canada: The NASA Haughton-Mars Project, Devon Island, Nunavut
Robert R. Stewart
January 20th, 2003
Modern Depth Migration Methods: Promise and Challenges for Canadian Basins
Sam Gray and James Sun
2002
November 18th, 2002
Evaluation of Foothills Natural Gas Plays using Two Dimensional Balanced Cross Sections
Andrew C. Newson
April 22nd, 2002
Imaging Through Gas Clouds: A Case History from the Gulf of Mexico
Steve Knapp*, Nigel Payne, Seitel Data and Tony Johns
January 7th, 2002
Processing and Analysis of 3-D PS-wave Data for Fracture Detection: Green River Basin, Wyoming Case
James E. Gaiser
2001
December 10th, 2001
Discovery of Ring Faults Associated with Salt Withdrawal Basins of Early Cretaceous Age in the East
Steven J. Maione
November 15th, 2001
Global Warming / Climate Change and Variations in Solar Activity: Past, Present and Future?
Ken Allen
September 3rd, 2001
Reservoir Monitoring and Characterization for Heavy Oil Thermal Recovery
Sam (Zandong) Sun
April 9th, 2001
Alberta's Boreal Forest: A Landscape in Transition: Implications for Sustainable Landscape and Landuse
Brad Stelfox
February 5th, 2001
Refraction Tomography: A Practical Overview of Emerging Technologies
Konstantin Osypov
