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Introduction to Petroleum Seismology (SEG Investigations in Geophysics Series No. 12), by Luc T. Ikelle and Lasse Amundsen, provides the basic theoretical and practical background needed to tackle present and future challenges of petroleum seismology, especially those related to seismic data acquisi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ikelle, L. (Luc)
Other Authors: Amundsen, Lasse, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tulsa, Okla. : Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2005.
Series:Investigations in geophysics ; no. 12.
Subjects:
Petroleum > Prospecting.
Petroleum engineering.
Seismic waves.
Seismic prospecting.
Petroleum > Geology.
Petróleo.
Prospecção sísmica.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The relationship between propagation of seismic waves and particle motions in isotropic media
  • Partition of energy at an interface
  • The Fourier representation of seismic signals
  • Characterization of seismic signals by statistical averages
  • The concepts of reciprocity and green's functions
  • Acquisition gemoetries and seismic data
  • Wavefield sampling
  • Wavefield decomposition into P- and S-waves and upgoing and downgoing waves
  • Multiple attenuation
  • An example of an inverse problem : linearized seismic inversion
  • Anisotropy and beyond
  • Appendix A : some terminology of petroleum geology
  • Appendix B : velocities and densities of reservoir fluids
  • Appendix C : a review of finite-difference modeling : explicit implementation
  • Appendix D : definitions of some of the integral transforms used in petroleum seismology
  • Appendix E : 3D-to-2D transformation and 2D-to-3D transformation
  • Appendix F : a derivation of the linearized forward problem
  • References
  • Index.