The cataclysmic 18 May 1980 eruption at Mount St. Helens was preceded by intense seismic activity marking the mechanical response of the volcanic edifice to interior pressurisation. This seismicity is analysed to yield the temporal change in the seismic scaling exponent, D, inferred from the seismic b-value, that in-turn is related to the seismic moment of an earthquake. Time evolution of D pre...

Standard stacking procedures are based on the combination of many scalar traces, and can exploit the coherency of arrivals between traces using non-linear methods. Such stacks can be used with some success for three-component data but do not exploit the vector character of the seismic wave¢eld. A set of stacking methods are introduced to work directly with three-component data and include inter...

effective approach to defining additional resources using 3-D seismic as the sole data source. Although this example is from a densely drilled province, such a seismic-based approach is often used in frontier areas with sparse well coverage, in step-out regions around known production, can be used for a “quick look” evaluation of existing properties, and for real-time interpretation of newly ac...

At an EOR field in South Oman an extensive synthetic modeling study was done in order understand steam flow behaviour within the reservoir. To understand the permeability distribution within the steam flooded zone, a simulated “Close-the-Loop” workflow was executed based on scenario modeling that relates changes in acoustic properties (velocity and density) with those in reservoir properties su...

detection of subsurface structures by means of gravity method can be used to determine mass distribution and density contrast of rock units. this distribution could be detected by different geophysical methods, especially gravity method. however, gravity techniques have some drawbacks and can't be always successful in distinguishing subsurface structures. performance of the gravity technique co...