Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences - Rock Physics Laboratory

Thursday Seminars

Dear Sponsors:

We would like to invite you to attend our weekly research seminar.

We plan to organize a research seminar each week as part of a collaboration with our sponsors and supporters from the industry. In doing so we hope to involve our sponsors with student research in the early stage, helping students to select their research topic and guiding them to pertinent issues. We believe it will benefit our students tremendously to interact with industry experts.

The seminar is held in room # 223 of Science & Research Building 1, at 11:00am every Thursday and typically lasts about an hour and a half. Parking is available in the visitor parking lot on the right side of Cullen (coming from 45) past the first traffic light. It is difficult to find an available parking meter along the street closest to the Science Building. From the visitor lot, Science & Research Building 1 is the second two floor building on the right side.

We will occasionally invite speakers from different companies to give talks, followed by informal discussion. Some of the topics selected for the semester include:

Scaling: log and seismic tie.
DHI and AVO (search attenuation) for fizz gas evaluation
Heavy oil properties
Fluid and pressure effect on seismic for reservoir monitoring.
Shale and Anisotropy in seismic
Pore structure, pressure and fluid effect on different rocks (loose sands, carbonate, etc.)

The topics will be updated based on feedback.

Schedule of Seminars: 2017 Fall Semester

Date	Speaker	Presentation
11/16/2017	Dr. Keith Katahara	1) Dependence of shale velocity on clay-mineral content and temperature. 2) Integrating laboratory and field data to infer horizontal elastic strain in the middle Bakken
11/09/2017	Dr. Lian Jiang	Optimization for the Seismic Fluid Identification Parameter
10/12/2017	Dr. Ramil Ahmadov	Integration of experimentally derived rock properties into characterization workflows
09/21/2017	Yang Wang	Stress-dependence of static and dynamic properties for sandstones
09/14/2017	Qi Huang	Velocity dispersion and attenuation of Berea sandstone under different pressures and water saturations
09/07/2017	Xuan Qin	Unsupervised well clustering: Pattern recognition in overpressure mechanisms

Schedule of Seminars: 2017 Spring Semester

Date	Speaker	Presentation
05/04/2017	Fuyong Yan	Effect of pore geometry on Gassmann fluid substitution
04/27/2017	Dutt Tripathi	Application on Image Analysis to Model Rock Properties
04/20/2017	Sabyasachi Prakash	Analysis of Damage Induced in Multistage Triaxial Test using Acoustic Emissions Data
04/06/2017	Zhengwei Xu	Review of flow fluid effect in quartz cementation and clay content in sandstone sedimentation
03/23/2017	Alesandra Simone	Salema Case Study ''Deep Water Shell Brazil''
03/09/2017	Qianqian Wei	Low frequency measurement on bentheimer and bandera sandstone
03/02/2017	Clara Palencia	Analyzing Resistivity Measurement and Salt Presence in Hayensville Gas Shale
02/23/2017	Jiali Ren	Estimation of the rock brittleness based on energy analysis during the failure process
02/16/2017	John Liu	Raman Spectroscopy in Shale Reservoirs: Organic Material Type and Maturity
02/09/2017	Dr. De-hua Han	Seismic wave attenuation and relative issues
02/02/2017	Dr. Lori Hathon	Organic Matter Changes as a Function of Maturity in the Eagle Ford Formations
01/26/2017	Dr. Haixia Zhao	Frequency-dependent reflections in diffusive-viscous media

Rock Physics Laboratory