GSKS.SEG.ORG September-October 2007 Volume 3, Issue ...Sept. 9-11. As mentioned in the president’s column, we will have the opportunity to hear some very prominent speakers at this

Program Chairman’s Column

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Program Abstract 2

GSK Council 3

GSK Committees 3

Crew Tracker 4

GSK Membership 3

AAPG Mid-Continent Conference

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GSK Advertising Rates

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Professional Directory 6

In this issue:

The summer has passed very quickly and it is time to begin our Fall Technical Sessions. We are very fortunate to have the Mid-Continent AAPG meeting in Wichita from Sep-tember 9th through the 11th. Many of the papers presented during this meeting will have a very strong geophysical empha-sis. Three of the Keynote Speakers are preeminent geo-physicists. Don Steeples will present his paper Some Stupid Shallow Seismic Experiments I Have Done, this is this fall’s SEG Distinguished Lecture. Tom Davis will present Multi-component 4-D Seismic Reser-voir Characterization of Tight Gas Sands, Rulison Field, Colorado. Bob Hardage will present Seismic Technologies for Independents Exploring for Unconventional Resources. Other papers with a strong geo-physical orientation include another Keynote Speaker, Henry Posamentier, who will present Seismic Geomorphol-ogy: Concepts, Workflows and

Applications to Petroleum Ex-ploration and Development, and the following seismic case study papers: C.E. Helsing and D.C. Ber-

man: A New Approach to Seismic Interpretation in Challenging Imaging Envi-ronments (40 mins.)

D.E. Hedke, B.W. Wilhite, R.

Sanguinetti, K.J. Marfurt: Reservoir Characterization in Mississippian Rocks via Seismic Methods – Coman-che County, KS (40 mins.)

S.E. Nissen, E.C. Sullivan,

K.J. Marfurt, T.R. Carr: Improving Reservoir Characterization of Karst-Modified Reservoirs with 3-D Geometric Seismic Attributes

R. Saenger: The Discovery

and Development History of Arroyo Field, Stanton County, Kansas

W.A. Miller: The Application of 2D and 3D Seismic Data in the Exploration for Cherokee Channels-Tombstone Gap Field, Ness County, Kansas

J.M. Kruger: Utility of

Gravity and Magnetic Data for Mapping Phanerozoic Faults, Fractures, Folds, and Facies Transitions Caused by Reactivation of Precam-brian Basement Structures

Other geophysical papers will be presented by students, including M. Hamilton: A Regional Geophysical Analysis of the North American Mid-Continent. Note that our society is well represented in this lineup of speakers. Please plan on attend-ing this meeting. I hope to see you there!

Rick Saenger

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Geophysical Society of Kansas

H T T P : / / G S K S . S E G . O R G September-October 2007

Volume 3, Issue 5

Upcoming Lecture

• Don Steeples to pre-sent “Some Stupid Shallow Seismic Experiments I Have Done.” See more details inside.

• Web Address: http://gsks.seg.org

At the Mid-Continent AAPG meeting in Wichita, one of the Keynote speakers will be the SEG’s Fall Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Don Steeples. See below for an abstract of Dr. Steeples’ talk. Dr. Steeples will not present his paper at a GSKS technical session due to the redundancy of his speaking on September 10 at the Mid-Continent AAPG meeting, which will be held in Wichita on Sept. 9-11. As mentioned in the president’s column, we will have the opportunity to hear some very prominent speakers at this meeting, including Dr. Bob Hardage (Texas Bureau of Economic Geology), Dr. Tom Davis (Colorado School of Mines), Dr. Steve Roche (Veritas), C. Ed Helsing (ExxonMobil), as well as Dr. Don Steeples (2007 SEG Distinguished lecture). Jim Bogardus (PGS – Onshore) will host a short course Geophysics for Geologists that will cover aspects of acquisition, processing and interpretation. There will also be some excellent student papers that will be competing for scholarships. For additional information regarding this event, please contact [email protected]. Due to the large number of activities at the Mid-Continent Meeting, the Kansas Geological Society has not published any scheduled technical papers or activities yet for the Fall Sessions. Please see next month’s Newsletter and/or email announcements. Keep on Thumpin’….

Michael Crouch

Geophysical Society of Kansas Volume 3, Issue 5

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Program Chairman’s Column

“… Progress attained by our research group has occurred through a mixture of stupid experiments that turned out to be clever and clever experiments that turned out to be stupid…”

Don W. Steeples, McGee Distin-guished Professor of Geophysics and Vice Provost for Scholarly Sup-port, University of Kansas

While near-surface and classical seismic explorations obey the same laws of physics, the rela-tive importance of those laws is different for the two types of surveys. These differences have led to some eccentric experi-ments with unexpected and occasional serendipitous out-comes. Progress attained by our research group has occurred through a mixture of stupid experiments that turned out to be clever and clever experiments that turned out to be stupid.

Shallow seismic methods have matured noticeably since the time 25 years ago when the world’s scientific literature con-tained few refereed papers on shallow reflection. Much of the maturation is related to the revo-lution in microelectronics and the associated several orders of magnitude decrease in computa-tional costs, while developments in sources, seismographs, and field methods have all played a role to differing degrees. How-ever, other driving factors in this improvement have included demonstrable attainment of ob-jectives such as providing struc-tural contour maps of bedrock beneath alluvium, delineating shallow faults, evaluating near-surface stratigraphy to detect preferential groundwater flow paths, and detecting under-

ground cavities. By 1999, we had demonstrated seismic reflection images from depths of less than a meter, easily within reach of a marginally competent grave digger. Detecting such shallow reflectors is expensive, however, because of the require-ment to plant geophones at intervals of 10 cm or less. The effective resolution potential of classical seismic exploration data recorded on land is often determined by geologic condi-tions in the upper few tens of meters; in addition, the majority of statics problems commonly occur in the upper 30 meters. We are currently experimenting with methods of making near-surface three-dimensional seismic imaging more cost-effective.

Program Abstract “Some Stupid Shallow Seismic Experiments I Have Done”


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TECHNICAL PROGRAMS Mike Crouch MEMBERSHIP Bob Francis NEWSLETTER Rick Miller ADVERTISING Dennis Hedke WEBPAGE Open CONTINUING EDUCATION Mike Crouch POTENTIAL FIELDS Open

GSK Committees

OFFICERS FOR THE CURRENT TERM (ending May 31, 2009) PRESIDENT Rick Saenger, Consultant, Wichita, Kansas VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT Michael Crouch, Consultant, Wichita, Kansas SECRETARY Robert Francis, Consultant, Wichita, Kansas TREASURER Susan Nissen, Consultant, McLouth, Kansas EDITOR Rick Miller, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas COUNCIL ADVISOR Dennis Hedke, Woolsey Operating Co., LLC, Wichita, Kansas Jim Womble, Consultant, Wichita, Kansas

2006-07 Council

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The Crew Tracker As of August 31, 2007


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Provided by Acquisition Company Representatives Acquisition Company Location (County/Parish) Instruments Lockhart Geophysical – Crew 1 Harper, KS ARAM/ARIES Lockhart Geophysical – Crew 2 Cheyenne, CO ARAM/ARIES Lockhart Geophysical – Crew 3 Russell, KS ARAM/ARIES Lockhart Geophysical – Crew 4 Sumner, KS ARAM/ARIES Lockhart Geophysical – Crew 5 Sumner, KS ARAM/ARIES Global Geophysical – Crew 444 Ford, KS Sercel 408 Global Geophysical – Crew 445 Hamilton, TX Sercel 428 Global Geophysical – Crew 446 Live Oak, TX Sercel 428 Global Geophysical – Crew 448 Conway, AR Sercel 408 Global Geophysical – Crew 449 Conway, AR Sercel 408 Paragon Geophysical – Crew 134 Humbolt, NV System II Paragon Geophysical – Crew 205 Cowley, KS System II Paragon Geophysical – Crew 206 Cheyenne, CO System IV Paragon Geophysical – Crew 207 Sheridan, KS System IV PGS Onshore – Crew 300 Caddo, OK Sercel 408 PGS Onshore – Crew 310 Karnes, TX Sercel 408 PGS Onshore – Crew 320 Wise, TX I/O RSR PGS Onshore – Crew 330 Washita, OK Sercel 408 SECo – Crew 42 Hall, TX ARAM/ARIES SECo – Crew 43 Dickens, TX ARAM/ARIES


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American Association of Petroleum Geologists MID-CONTINENT SECTION MEETING 2007

New Ideas – More Oil and Gas

September 9-11, 2007 Wichita, Kansas Airport Hilton

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Mid-Continent Section

No Web page for Midcontinent Section available to link to: aapg.org/sections/midcontinent.cfm

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Kansas Geological Society 212 North Market Street, Suite 100

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Students are encouraged to participate in this meeting

to get feedback on their research, publish some facet of their work, and meet potential employers.


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Professional Directory


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Geophysics at Fort Hays State Universty—cont’d

Gravity Acquisition, Southwest Kansas Lockhart Geophysical: Burl Kornegay (left) and Guillermo Muñoz (right)


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GSKS.SEG.ORG September-October 2007 Volume 3, Issue ...Sept. 9-11. As mentioned in the president’s column, we will have the opportunity to hear some very prominent speakers at this