SEG annual meeting at a glance

Anisotropic reverse time migration from the Gulf of Mexico. Courtesy of TGS.

With exploration activity booming and new technologies being developed to better assess resource potential, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) 2012 Annual Meeting will bring together industry professionals from all over the globe to discuss the challenges, opportunities and innovations in the exploration business. In its 82nd year, SEG 2012 will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 4-9, 2012. Themed “Sustainability, Humanitarian Outreach and Social Responsibility,” this year’s program will feature special sessions, technical luncheons, workshops and a series of discussion panels as part of the SEG Forum. This year, the SEG committee evaluated the highest number of abstract submissions—1,560—which will be presented in 116 sessions over the four-day event.

SEG ANNUAL MEETING AT A GLANCE  /////////////////////////////////////

Monday, November 5. After the opening Icebreaker event on Sunday, the convention officially opens with the SEG Forum, which will focus on the practical issues of corporate and academic social responsibility within the exploration industry. Afternoon oral sessions will include topics, such as case studies on imaging and processing, angles and azimuth, theory and forward modeling developments, and resource plays and fluid flow.

Tuesday, November 6. Morning oral sessions will cover rock property estimates, stacking and multi-dimensional deconvolusion, property prediction and monitoring, and stratigraphy and depositional facies. The technical lunch session, entitled “Gravity and magnetics,” will discuss the effect of Chicxulub on the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Afternoon oral sessions will cover topics, such as survey design and illumination, faults and fractures, deblending and migration methods, and FWI applications to field data.

Wednesday, November 7. Morning sessions will discuss land acquisition, advanced imaging algorithms, fracture characterization and inversion, and fluid and play evaluation. The luncheon, entitled “Development and production,” will highlight the utilization of geophysics concepts in unconventional resource assessment of shale gas. Afternoon oral sessions will cover potential field toolboxes, feasibility and modeling studies, unconventional shale reservoirs, and rock physics and estimation.

Thursday, November 8. On the last day of the technical program, which lasts only in the morning, sessions will discuss scattering and geostatistics, 4D beyond conventional seismic, advances in uncertainty quantification, and magnetics.