Annual Report 2012
Table of Contents
CHARACTERIZING FRACTURED RESERVOIRS
1) Fracture characterization from attenuation of Stoneley waves across a fracture– Sudhish K. Bakku,
Michael Fehler, and Daniel R. Burns.
2) Fluid flow property estimation from seismic scattering data– Stephen Brown and Xinding Fang.
3) Reservoir fracture characterizations from seismic scattered waves– Xinding Fang, Mike Fehler,
Zhenya Zhu, Yingcai Zheng and Daniel Burns.
4) A Bayesian framework for fracture characterization from surface seismic data– S. Ahmad
Zamanian, Michael Fehler, Daniel Burns.
5) Seismic characterization of fractured reservoirs using 3D double beams– Yingcai Zheng, Xinding
Fang, Michael C. Fehler and Daniel R. Burns.
6) Efficient Double-Beam Characterization for Fractured Reservoir –Yingcai Zheng, Xinding Fang,
Michael C. Fehler and Daniel R. Burns.
BOREHOLE SCIENCE AND LOGGING WHILE DRILLING
1) Predicting stress-induced anisotropy around a borehole– Xinding Fang, Michael Fehler, Zhenya
Zhu, Tianrun Chen5, Stephen Brown, Arthur Cheng5, and M. Nafi Toksöz.
2) An approach for predicting stress-induced anisotropy around a borehole–Xinding Fang, Michael
Fehler, Zhenya Zhu, Tianrun Chen5, Stephen Brown, Arthur Cheng5 and M. Nafi Toksöz.
3) On perfectly matched layer schemes in finite difference simulations of acoustic Logging-WhileDrilling–Hua Wang, Xuefeng Shang, Xinding Fang and Guo Tao7.
4) Multipole seismoelectric logging while drilling (LWD) for acoustic velocity measurements–
Zhenya Zhu, Jun Wang12 and M. Nafi Toksöz.
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING, INCLUDING MICROQUAKE STUDIES
1) Microseismicity location and joint anisotropic tomography with differential travel times and
differential back azimuths– Junlun Li, Haijiang Zhang, William Rodi, and Nafi Toksöz.
2) Comparison of microearthquake locations using seismic interferometry principles– Gabriela Melo,
Alison Malcolm, and Michael Fehler.
3) A unified framework for relative source localization using correlograms– Oleg V. Poliannikov,
Michael Prange6, Alison Malcolm, MIT, and Hugues Djikpesse6.
4) Seismic imaging of hydraulically-stimulated fractures: A numerical study of the effect of the
source Mechanism– Andrey H. Shabelansky, Alison Malcolm, Mike Fehler, and Sudhish K.
Bakku.
5) Full-waveform based complete moment tensor inversion and source parameter estimation from
downhole microseismic data for hydrofracture monitoring– Fuxion Song and M. Nafi Toksöz.
SEISMIC MODELING, IMAGING AND (FULL-WAVEFORM) INVERSION
1) Modeling and suppression of near-surface scattered surface-waves–Abdulaziz M. AlMuhaidib
and M. Nafi Toksöz.
2) Source-Indexed Migration Velocity Analysis with Global Passive Data– Scott Burdick, M.V. de
Hoop1, and R.D. van der Hilst.
3) Surface-wave eikonal tomography for dense geophysical arrays– Pierre Gouedard, Huajian Yao,
Fabien Ernst and R. D. van der Hilst.
4) A fast butterfly algorithm for the hyperbolic Radon transform– Jingwei Hu, Sergey Fomel4,
Laurent Demanet, MIT, and Lexing Ying4.
5) Approximate inversion of the wave-equation Hessian via randomized matrix probing– PierreDavid Letourneau2, Laurent Demanet, MIT, and Henri Calandra3.
6) Reverse time migration of multiples for subsalt imaging– Yike Liu13, Xu Chang13, Degang Jin14,
Ruiqing He15, Hongchuan Sun16, and Yingcai Zheng.
7) A multi-pass one-way method to include turning waves and multiples– Alan Richardson and
Alison E. Malcolm.
8) Data-driven estimation of the sensitivity of target-oriented time-lapse seismic imaging to source
geometry– Andrey H. Shabelansky, Alison Malcolm, and Mike Fehler.
9) Monitoring seismic attenuation changes using a 4D relative spectrum method in Athabsca Heavy
Oil Reservoir, Canada– Andrey H. Shabelansky, Alison Malcolm, and Mike Fehler.
10) Nonlinear Fréchet derivative and its De Wolf approximation– Ru ShanWu17, and Yingcai Zheng.
11) Target-oriented time-lapse waveform inversion using virtual survey– Di Yang, Yingcai Zheng,
Michael Fehler, and Alison Malcolm.
12) Advanced 3D Geophysical Imaging Technologies for Geothermal Resource Characterization–
Haijiang Zhang8, Erika Gasperikova9, Beatrice Parker, Ari Tryggvason10, Olafur Gudmundsson10,
Tim Seher, Gregory Newman9, Michael Fehler, and Knutur Arnason11.
13) Scholte waves generated by seafloor topography–Yingcai Zheng, Xinding Fang, Jing Liu and
Michael C. Fehler.
SEISMIC INTERFEROMETRY
1) Variations in earthquake rupture properties along the Gofar transform fault, East Pacific Rise–
Jeffrey McGuire18, John Collins18, Pierre Gouedard, Emily Roland, Dan Lizarralde18, Margaret S.
Boettcher19, Mark D. Behn18 and Robert van der Hilst.
2) Structure of young East Pacific Rise lithosphere from ambient noise correlation analysis of
fundamental- and higher-mode Scholte-Rayleigh waves– Huajian Yao20, Pierre Gouedard, John A
Collins18, Jeffrey McGuire18, and Robert van der Hilst.
3) Crosscorrelation kernels in acoustic Green's function retrieval by wavefield correlation for point
sources on a plane and a sphere–Yingcai Zheng, Yaofeng He17, and M. C. Fehler.
4) Seismic interferometry using non-far-field sources and removing the spurious arrival– Yingcai
Zheng, Ru-Shan Wu17, Yike Liu13, and M. C. Fehler.
GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS
1) Multiple aperture INSAR (MAI) with C-band and L-band data: Noise and precision– Noa Bechor
Ben-Dov and Thomas A. Herring
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Purdue University
Stanford University
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Total SA
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The University of Texas at Austin
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Halliburton
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Schlumberger-Doll Research Center
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Sate Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resource and Prospecting, China Univ. of Petroleum-Beijing
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University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
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Dept. of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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ISOR Iceland GeoSurvey
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Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China
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Sichuan Geophysical Company, CNPC, Chengdu China
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Paulsson, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
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University of Utah
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University of California at Santa Cruz
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
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University of New Hampshire
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Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego
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