Analysis and understanding of seismic anisotropy has proven to be a valuable tool in many exploration and reservoir management studies. Seismic anisotropy should not be viewed as a problem that must be dealt with but instead regarded as an additional attribute to understand the rocks within the reservoir and overburden. Recent developments in borehole and seismic methods coupled with the latest...

The field of seismic exploration of the Earth has changed dramatically over the last half a century. The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) has worked to create standards to store the vast amounts of seismic data in a way that will be portable across computer architectures. However, it has been impossible to predict the needs of the immense range of seismic data acquisition systems. As ...

Oil and gas exploration decisions are made based on inferences obtained from seismic data interpretation. While 3D seismic data become widespread and the data-sets get larger, the demand for automation to speed up the seismic interpretation process is increasing as well. However, the development of intelligent tools which can do more to assist interpreters has been difficult due to low informat...

The core problem in seismic exploration is to invert the subsurface reflectivity from the surface recorded seismic data. However, most of the seismic inverse problems are ill-posed by nature. To overcome the ill-posedness, different regularized least squares methods are introduced in the literature. In this paper, we developed a preconditioning non-monotone gradient method, proved it converges ...

Seismic modeling is an integral part of the seismic data processing for oil and gas exploration, as it provides us the seismic response for a given earth model. Grid enabled seismic wave modeling can facilitate users in the area of geophysics to calculate synthetic seismograms using federated HPC resources and complex solution algorithms without knowing their complexities. The present paper is ...

The improvement in the temporal resolution of seismic data is a critical issue in hydrocarbon exploration. It is important for obtaining more detailed structural and stratigraphic information. Many methods have been introduced to improve the vertical resolution of reflection seismic data. Each method has advantages and disadvantages which are due to the assumptions and theories governing their ...

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Minor faults, subsidence columns, coal tunnels and gob are very important in coal mining because they can cause flooding accidents, broken coal beds, added fissures, and gas accumulation. All of these factors will increase coal mining risk. In addition, minor faults also affect the design of roadways. In this article, we have achieved satisfactory results in identifying minor faults, subsidence...

Once disregarded as noise, scattered seismic waves are finding increasing application in subsurface imaging. This sea change is driven by the increasing density and quality of seismic recordings and advances in waveform modeling which, together, are allowing seismologists to exploit their unique properties. In addition to extensive application in the energy exploration industry, seismic scatter...

Within Geophysics, seismic methods are an essential tool for petroleum and gas exploration. They produce images of the earth's interior and let explorationists analyze the geological structure of the underground. The memory and time requirements of seismic calculations suggest parallel implementations. In Fortran, however, parallel program code often not only lacks maintainability and reusabili...