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By Natalie Blythe, Daily News Associate Editor

Asteady crowd kept the room lively on Monday after-noon as the annual Recent Advances and the Road

Ahead special session, chaired by Clement Kostov and Sergio Chávez-Pérez, provided enlightening, upcoming innovations in the industry. As in previous years, the pre-sentations each focused on the state-of the-art areas of each topic, and provided attendees a map for the road ahead.

Shuki Ronen, Dolphin Geophysical and Stanford Uni-versity, started the session with his presentation on “The road ahead for the seismic value chain offshore.” His pre-sentation touched on how recent advances point to sources that will be based on much lower pressures and much larger volumes than today’s airguns. Ronen, the 2012 SEG

North America Honorary Lec-turer, focused on many aspects of the topics, includ-ing how pres-sure sources will be broader-band and emit less noise at frequen-cies that are too high to be useful. He also discussed how motorized, unmanned sur-face vessels towing streamers will pro-vide more afford-able wide-azimuth and long-offset data than today’s methods.

For the second presentation, “Can multiples relieve the acquisition requirements?” by Erik Verschuur and Guus Berkhout, Delft University of Technology, Delphi Con-sortium, Gerrit Blacquiére presented the authors’ talk, as both were unable to attend. Verschuur and Berkhout inves-tigated the use of multiples in a novel, closed-loop imag-ing concept, being full wavefield migration. Their findings discovered that the use of multiples would enlarge the illu-mination of the subsurface and be of crucial importance when primaries are not properly measured due to acqui-sition constraints and background noise. Their investiga-tions also showed that the full wavefield migration process could image subsurface structures via surface and via inter-nal multiples. Both situations can relieve the requirements for dense, symmetric acquisition geometries.

Joseph Reilly of ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company gave his presentation on “Broadband technol-ogy: History and remaining challenges from an end-user perspective” and at the beginning, acknowledged that one of the audience members was none other than Sven Tre-itel. In his presentation, Reilly said broadband marine seismic data is evolving as the new standard in petroleum geoscience, and he believes this technology area includes many acquisition solutions such as over/under streamer, multicomponent steamer, slant streamer, and on bottom multicomponent cable and node systems, as well as pro-cessing-based solutions, which only require conventional hydrophone recording.

According to Reilly, the design constraints imposed by operating in the marine environment are enormous, and there is tremendous pressure to demonstrate that one solu-tion is distinctly superior to all others. His findings from

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an end-user perspective, however, showed, that workflows providing the same or similar benefit — but only relying on hydrophone-based systems — not only allow for cost efficiencies for new acquisition projects but also can be applied to upgrade the entire library of legacy data.

If cost and time were not an issue, Reilly believes it is

likely that the technology of choice would be similar to land seismic, in which dense sensors arrays are placed as desired, such as in the quietest possible recording envi-ronment. He did point out, however, that none of these

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see Innovations Explored continued on page 19 ›

By Natalie Blythe, Daily News Associate Editor

This year’s Council meeting was abuzz with activity as 55 members — some participating through a webi-

nar interface — were tasked with approving five sets of changes to the SEG Bylaws and adjustments to Student Member dues.

All five Bylaws changes submitted to the Council were approved — some with amendments — during the meet-ing held Sunday at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel. All five will be subject to a vote of Active Members during the next few months, with a simple majority of voters required for adoption.

The Bylaws changes approved Sunday involved district representation, the SEG Board of Directors publications position, membership-approval processes, dues-waiver authority, and dissolution of the Committee of Tellers.

Under the first Bylaws change, one that originated as a recommendation of a Council committee, each of SEG’s 12 districts would elect two district representatives — one each year — regardless of member population; currently, the number of district representatives for each district is determined by the number of Active Members who do not declare representation through a Section or Associated Society. Under the proposal, all Active Mem-

SEG Council OKs Bylaws Changes

Downturn Discussed During Opening Session2014-2015 SEG President Liner emphasizes importance of cooperation between organizations

By Steve Brown, Daily News Editor

After a well-attended Icebreaker and Expo Preview in the Exposition Hall on Sunday evening, the SEG

85th Annual Meeting officially kicked off Monday morn-ing with the Opening Session and Presidential Address. As would be expected, the recent downturn in the oil and gas markets was a front-and-center topic during the session.

Julius Doruelo, the 2015 Annual Meeting Steering Committee General Chair, began the session with an interesting parallel between the health of the city of New Orleans, where the Annual Meeting is being held now through Friday, and the current financial state of the oil and gas industry.

Doruelo noted that New Orleans has been the site of

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many history-making events for SEG. When SEG held its Annual Meeting in New Orleans in 1998, the event set what was a record at the time for the number of exhibiting companies in the Exposition Hall. In 2006, SEG returned to New Orleans and hosted a successful Annual Meeting after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Doruelo asked attendees to take a look around New

Orleans this week and to pay particular attention to how this city has managed to persevere and thrive in the years since Hurricane Katrina.

“New Orleans is a testament to how a beleaguered community can come back and prosper,” he said. “Just like

see OPENING SESSION continued on page 22 ›

2014-2015 SEG President Chris Liner speaks during the Presidential Address on Monday.

see SEG COUNCIL continued on page 22 ›

By Steve Brown, Daily News Editor

What a difference a little more than a year can make. When John Bradford decided to run for the Soci-

ety of Exploration Geophysicists’ (SEG’s) presidential office in 2014, the price of oil was at or above $100 a barrel. Even despite a fairly precipitous drop prior to last year’s International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting when Bradford was installed as president-elect, oil still stood at around $80 a barrel. Those were the salad days.

This week, as incoming President Bradford prepares to officially take the helm of SEG during its 85th Annual Meeting, sub-$50-a-barrel oil has become a reality. It’s a reality Bradford must deal with as he assumes leadership of an orga-nization whose finan-cial health is so heavily dependent on oil and gas markets.

Despite the adversity of the times, Bradford is intent on seeking oppor-tunity and not only

maintaining, but improving the level of service and bene-fits that SEG members have come to expect.

“We’re in good shape to weather this downturn.

Finding Opportunity Amid AdversityNew SEG President John Bradford seeks to maintain member services, focus on the underserved

SEG’s finances are sound,” Bradford said. “Having said that, everyone recognizes that this downturn could be longer lasting and deeper than was originally expected.

“In difficult times, that’s when we can make some of the most important changes,” he said. “It causes us to take a hard look at what we’re doing and to make sure we’re doing things the right way and providing the right services as efficiently as possible.

“We certainly have challenges set out for us, but we’re

intent on minimizing the impact on our members.” Bradford admitted that the challenging economic

situation caused him to reevaluate some of the items on his agenda as president, but one item in particular hasn’t changed — in fact, it has increased in importance.

It has been several years since SEG has gone through a formal and thorough strategic planning process. With

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SEG Hits the ‘Big Easy’SEG brings cutting-edge offerings and technical sessions to New Orleans

By Natalie Blythe, Daily News Associate Editor

The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) is excited to be in “the Big Easy” for its International

Exposition and 85th Annual Meeting now through 23 October in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. One of the year’s most anticipated events, the Annual Meeting is expected to bring together more than 6,000 attendees from 70 countries.

The technical program kicks off today at 1:30 p.m. following the 9 a.m. opening session, “The only thing constant is change: Strategic impacts of current and future technologies to the E&P business.” This year’s technical program includes 146 diverse sessions, includ-ing six special sessions and one special global session. Be sure to check the official program for a complete list-ing of all the sessions, including technical luncheons on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Not able to stay for the entire technical program? Pur-chase this year’s Technical Program via SEG On Demand by visiting seg.org/bookmart (Catalog/Course Code 2015TPP). After the Annual Meeting, technical sessions will be available for purchase only by topic.

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