Browsing OU - Theses by Author "Marfurt, Kurt"
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3-D GEOMETRY AND KINEMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE KUPE INVERSION STRUCTURE, SOUTHERN TARANAKI BASIN, NEW ZEALAND
Clayton, Spencer (2017-12)The Southern Taranaki Basin underwent extension during the Late Cretaceous to Eocene, followed by a compression during the Oligocene to the Late Miocene, resulting in inversion of some of the pre-existing normal faults. ... -
3D QUANTITATIVE SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY OF JURASSIC CARBONATE STRATA ON THE ARABIAN PLATFORM
AlShafei, Ali (2018-12)Quantitative seismic stratigraphy of a 3D seismic volume of the Arabian platform provides critical information on the heterogeneity of reservoir quality of a productive Jurassic carbonate grainstone. The Vail method of ... -
APPLICATION AND LIMITATIONS OF SEISMIC ATTRIBUTES ON 2D RECONNAISSANCE SURVEYS
Hutchinson, Bryce (2016-05-14)Reconnaissance surveys of 2D seismic data are acquired before most 3D seismic surveys to define the area of interest and regional trends. While seismic attributes are routinely applied to 3D data, they are less commonly ... -
Automatic Leak Detection in Carbon Sequestration Projects
Sinha, Saurabh (2020-05-15)The international commitments for carbon capture will require a rapid increase in carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. The key to any successful carbon sequestration project lies in the long term storage and ... -
Calibrating seismic fracture prediction using borehole image logs, application to the Mississippian Limestone
Cook, Stephanie (2016-05)The Mississippian Limestone of North Oklahoma and Southern Kansas has been one of the more active Midcontinent resource plays of the past decade, with over 4,300 horizontal wells drilled and completed between 2010 and 2015 ... -
Comparison of Surface and Downhole Microseismic Acquisition
Rohan, Kara (2017-12-16)The most common microseismic monitoring methods used in the industry today are by the use of surface arrays and downhole arrays. In surface acquisition, sensors are deployed on the surface in large two-dimensional arrays, ... -
CONTROLS OF PRE-EXISTING NORMAL FAULTS ON THE GEOMETRY AND LOCATION OF THRUST FAULTS IN FOLD-THRUST BELTS
Basnet, Shiva (2016)Pre-existing normal faults are commonly cited as influencing both the sequence of faulting and the location of thrust faults in fold-thrust belts. Scaled experimental models for both frictional and ductile detachments were ... -
CORRELATING RATE OF PENETRATION AND BIT TRIPS TO 3D SURFACE SEISMIC DATA, ANADARKO SHELF, OKLAHOMA
Snyder, Joseph (2016)While initially thought to be laterally homogeneous, operators quickly realized that unconventional resource plays can exhibit considerable geologic heterogeneity. Since this realization, 3D surface seismic analysis has ... -
A Diagenetic and Paleomagnetic Study of the Woodford Shale, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
Roberts, Jennifer (2017)Two Woodford Shale cores from the Anadarko Basin (Core A, Core C) and one oriented Woodford Shale core from the Ardmore Basin near the Ouachita thrust zone (Core B) were sampled in order to identify diagenetic events, ... -
ESTIMATING BRITTLENESS USING SEISMIC DATA IN AN UNCONVENTIONAL SHALE RESERVOIR, FORT WORTH BASIN, NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
Gunther, Megan (2017-05-13)Brittleness within unconventional shale plays is a major component in reservoir stimulation. Mineralogy measured in nearby wells estimates brittleness and can be correlated to elastic parameters measured in well logs ... -
Examining Seismic Amplitude Responses of Gaseous Media Using Unsupervised Machine Learning
Chenin, Julian (2020-12-18)The presence of gas in the rock’s or sediment’s pore space significantly affects its seismic amplitude response and modifies its subsurface signature. Gas hydrates in the subsurface are often difficult to image with ... -
FORWARD SEISMIC MODEL OF PERMIAN GUADALUPIAN SHELF-TO-BASIN SEDIMENTATION THROUGH NOVEL INTEGRATION OF LIDAR AND SCHMIDT HAMMER, MCKITTRICK CANYON, WEST TEXAS
Wang, Zhuobo (2018-05-11)As a result of the challenges occurring with the subsurface seismic interpretation of images of the complicated depositional systems of the Guadalupian of the Permian Basin, forward seismic model is built to guide the ... -
Improving fault images using a directional Laplacian of a Gaussian operator
Machado Acosta, Gabriel (2016-05)Fault picking is a critical, but human-intensive component of seismic interpretation. In a bid to improve fault imaging in seismic data, I have applied a directional Laplacian of a Gaussian (dLoG) operator to sharpen fault ... -
INVESTIGATION AND REAL-TIME MONITORING FOR SAFE WASTE-WATER DISPOSAL WITH A FOCUS ON ARBUCKLE GROUP, OKLAHOMA
Gogri, Maulin (2018)Increase in the earthquakes in the State of Oklahoma in recent years has been tremendous with wastewater disposal considered to be the primary reason behind this increase. A large quantity of wastewater is being injected ... -
Linking image processing and numerical modeling to identify potential geohazards
Pires de Lima, Rafael (2017-08)Faults, along with natural fractures, may enhance production when confined within the reservoir. However, if the fault is connected to an aquifer, it may cause early water breakthrough in the reservoir. Even if they are ... -
MACHINE LEARNING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SEISMIC ATTRIBUTE-SEISMIC FACIES ANALYSIS DATA BASE
Cassel, Murphy (2018-08-02)Currently, seismic facies and structural analysis requires a significant amount of time and effort by skilled interpreters. With the advances made by companies such as Amazon and Google with AI (artificial intelligence) ... -
Microseismic Location Using Differential Backazimuth Angles
Jacobsen, Rae (2016-05)The most common procedure for locating borehole microseismic events is solution of a minimization problem based on observed travel time differences compared to calculated travel time differences derived from a given velocity ... -
MISSISSIPPIAN MERAMEC LITHOLOGIES AND PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTY VARIABILITY, STACK TREND, ANADARKO BASIN, OKLAHOMA
Miller, Michael (2019-05)Mississippian Meramec reservoirs of the STACK (Sooner Trend in the Anadarko [Basin] in Canadian and Kingfisher counties) play are comprised of silty limestones, calcareous siltstones, argillaceous-calcareous siltstones, ... -
OUTCROP-SCALE STUDY OF THE PERMIAN BONE SPRING FORMATION, BONE SPRING CANYON, GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS, TEXAS: FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION
AlAbbad, Abdullah (2017-05-12)A light detection and ranging- (LiDAR) focused outcrop study was conducted on Upper Leonardian Bone Spring limestone in the Bone Canyon, Delaware Basin of West Texas. LiDAR technology is very useful in modeling fracture ... -
RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF THE DESMOINESIAN SERIES GRANITE WASH, BUFFALO WALLOW FIELD, ANADARKO BASIN, TEXAS
Senoglu, Doga Ecem (2017)The Desmoinesian Series Granite Wash at Buffalo Wallow Field represents deepwater deposits including slumps, channels, and submarine fan lobes that consist of six major lithofacies as mudstone, interbedded mudstone and ...