Geophysical Consulting
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Array cross-dipole seismogram for a shale formation
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Dipole signatures for deviated well in anisotropy formation
- Seismic analysis
- Acoustic analysis
- Electromagnetic analysis, modeling, and visualization
Applied Physics scientists deliver effective solutions in areas such as:
- Reservoir characterization
- Cavity detection
- Environmental geophysics
Geophysical Consulting Strengths
Key technical strengths of the reservoir geophysics research program include:
- Interpretation of seismic measurements
- Modeling of interwell seismic measurements
- Geological and well log data
Geophysical Consulting Capabilities
- Single borehole full waveform and dispersion modeling
- Vertical borehole monopole and dipole sonic (elastic and poroelastic)
- Vertical borehole dipole sonic in anisotropic (HTI) formation
- Dipping borehole dipole sonic in anisotropic (TI) formation
- Vertical borehole dipole sonic near a vertical fracture
- Single borehole processing
- Full waveform dispersion analysis
- Interpretation algorithm to extract Q logs from monopole sonic data
- Inversion of shear anisotropy from cross-dipole data (validated by synthetic data and tested by real data)
- Surface, VSP, and cross-well seismic modeling
- Software to simulate synthetic seismograms due to plane wave and point source in layered elastic and anisotropic earth media, and finite differences
- Software to simulate synthetic seismograms due to plane wave and point source in poroelastic layered earth media
- Data processing
- Dispersion and spectral analysis of sonic and cross-well seismic data
- Statistical analysis of petrophysical data (discrimination, ANOVA, geostatistics, multiple linear and non-linear regression, etc.)
- Imaging processing
- Interpretation capability to extract Q from surface seismic data
SwRI provides a broad array of services for the oil and gas industry. With broad capabilities in this field, we provide a significant resource to small service companies and independent operators as well as large integrated corporations.
Related Terminology
geophysics • seismic analysis • acoustic analysis • electromagnetic analysis • seismic measurements • borehole well log • permeability • continuity • crosswell • interwell seismic measurements • geological analysis • well log data • oil industry services • gas well characterization • environmental analysis
