1. Welcome from all of us

2. CREWES Overview
Advanced research and education in geophysical exploration in partnership with the resource industry
Specifically, to develop multicomponent seismic methods to image and monitor the subsurface and its fluids

3. The University’s Multicomponent Mandate
The 3C’s: to create, communicate and conserve knowledge
possibly 4C: to commercialize

4. People & Funding
7 faculty investigators, 12 research geophysicists and support staff
40 graduate students
CREWES group budget (2003): $1,400,000/year
27 industrial $35k/yr
NSERC (Gov’t of Canada) support $450,000/year
Other research funding: $200,000/yr

5. CREWES Strategy 3D reservoirs – ultimately need 3D analysis
P-wave imaging is usually best (fast, sharpened, in depth, and anisotropic)
P-S analysis for lithology & imaging special cases
Integrate VSP, well logs, & rock physics
Research where there’s need & opportunity
Plan, acquire, process, & interpret real data

6. SEISMIC LITHOLOGY & FLUID IMAGING
CREWES Focus
SEISMIC LITHOLOGY & FLUID IMAGING
FIELD OPS. &
INSTRUMENTS
PHYSICAL
MODELING
NUMERICAL
MODELING
BOREHOLE &
HIGH-RES.
SIGNAL
PROCESSING
INTERPRET.
& CASES

7. CREWES Special Interest
Plains (Blackfoot, Red Deer, Swift Current – lithology, coal-bed methane, inversion)
Heavy Oil (Cold Lake, Pikes Peak, Jackfish) – shallow imaging, lithology, thermal monitoring
Arctic (Mackenzie Delta, Devon Island) – permafrost, methane hydrates, fixed/floating ice
Marine 4-C (White Rose, Sable, GoM, N. Sea) – OBC/S technology, reverb/multiples
Structural areas (Copithorne)

8. Challenges & Research Areas from CREWES survey 2002
3 3C VSP analysis
3 Decon / phase for PS
3 PS Statics
3 Sub-gas imaging
4 Velocity model building
5 PP and PS Correlation/Interpretation
5 Joint Vp, Vs, ρ estimation (inversion)
5 Depth imaging (2D & 3D)
5 Multiple removal (PZ, 4-C)

9. 6 Receiver (and source) vector fidelity 8 Q estimation & filtering
increased resolution in PP & PS
for lithology and fluids
8 Anisotropy analysis (VTI, azimuthal, γ)
Fracture characterization

10. Activity/Interest Indicator: Abstract Keywords 2003 Ann. Intl
Activity/Interest Indicator: Abstract Keywords 2003 Ann. Intl. SEG Meeting, Dallas Subject ~ # references 3D
Migration
Res. Char
Modeling
Anisotropy 88
PS/Multi/C 84
Inversion
Velocity
Imaging
AVO
Rock phys. 60
Fractures

11. Hope you enjoy the Meeting