Optimized Process Designs Aug 2009 - Jun 2017
Project Superintendent
Optimized Process Designs Aug 2009 - Jun 2017
Construction Manager
Education:
University of Houston 2015 - 2016
Skills:
Construction Management Project Management Construction Safety Construction Power Plants Oil and Gas Industry Pipefitting Piping and Instrumentation Drawing Start Up Support
Z-Terra Inc.
Chief Technical Advisor
Wave Imaging Technology Jan 1, 2007 - Dec 31, 2013
Cto, Chairman, Founder
Seimax Technology Jan 1, 2007 - Dec 31, 2013
Senior Depth Imaging Advisor - Formerly Manager Depth Imaging R and D
3Dgeo Aug 2006 - May 2007
Manager - Geophysical Research Houston
Chevron Oct 1979 - Jun 2006
Research Geophysicist
Education:
The University of Toledo 1971 - 1977
Master of Science, Doctorates, Masters, Doctor of Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics
Bangor High School
Northern Michigan University
Doctorates, Doctor of Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy
Skills:
Geophysics Seismology Modeling Earth Science Scientific Computing Data Processing Petroleum Data Acquisition Seismic Imaging Fortran Depth Imaging Geology Characterization Seismic Attributes High Performance Computing Algorithms Petroleum Geology Petrophysics Reservoir Management Upstream Numerical Analysis Signal Processing Openmp Seismic Inversion Geophysical Data Processing Physics Inversion Linux Parallel Computing Mpi Mathematical Modeling Petrel Uncertainty Analysis Log Analysis Energy Industry Structural Geology Formation Evaluation Velocity Reserves Promax Inverse Problems Applied Mathematics Software Engineering Image Processing Reservoir Modeling R&D Field Development Avo Oilfield Reservoir Engineering
Joseph H. Higginbotham - Katy TX, US Morgan P. Brown - Houston TX, US Cosmin Macesanu - Katy TX, US
Assignee:
Wave Imaging Technology, Inc. - Houston TX
International Classification:
G01V 1/00 G01V 1/28
US Classification:
702 16, 702 14
Abstract:
The invention relates to methods and computer-readable medium to implement computing the propagation velocity of seismic waves in the earth. The invention computes the propagation velocity of seismic waves in the earth, which is a condition of obtaining an accurate image of subsurface geology that can be used to prospect for oil and gas deposits. In an embodiment, the method in a host of determining the propagation angles of reflected seismic waves, including inputting data representing reflected seismic waves, inputting a propagation velocity field, computing propagation direction vectors of a source wave field and a receiver wave field using a downward continuation Fourier domain shot record migration using the data representing the reflected seismic waves and the propagation velocity field, and transforming the propagation direction vectors into propagation angles of reflected seismic waves.
Methods And Computer-Readable Medium To Implement Computing The Propagation Velocity Of Seismic Waves
Joseph H. Higginbotham - Katy TX, US Morgan P. Brown - Mountain View CA, US
International Classification:
G01V 1/28
US Classification:
702 18
Abstract:
The invention relates to methods and computer-readable medium to implement computing the propagation velocity of seismic waves in the earth. The invention computes the true propagation velocity of seismic waves in the earth, which is a condition of obtaining an accurate image of subsurface geology that can be used to prospect for oil and gas deposits. In an embodiment, the method of computing the propagation velocity of seismic waves in earth, includes providing an estimate of the propagation velocity, generating a time shift gather using a depth migration at a plurality of locations of the earth, converting each of the time shift gathers to a semblance gather, transforming each semblance gather into a velocity gather whose energy peaks represent a root-mean-square average of the propagation velocity along the forward and backward path between earth's surface and a point of the subsurface geology, and converting the energy peaks to the propagation velocity.
Methods And Computer-Readable Medium To Implement Inversion Of Angle Gathers For Rock Physics Reflectivity Attributes
Joseph H. Higginbotham - Katy TX, US Morgan P. Brown - Houston TX, US
International Classification:
G06F 19/00 G01V 1/28
US Classification:
702 18, 702 14
Abstract:
The invention relates to methods and computer-readable medium to determine seismic reflectivity attributes indicating the presence of hydrocarbons in earth. In several embodiments, the methods and computer-readable medium perform the steps of computing seismic reflectivity attributes includes inputting data representing reflected seismic waves and a volume of P-wave velocity, transforming the volume of P-wave velocity into a volume of bulk density, transforming the volume of P-wave velocity into a volume of S-wave velocity using amplitude information from the reflected seismic waves, and using the volume of S-wave velocity and the volume of P-wave velocity to compute the reflectivity attribute.