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Deepwater Exploration Geophysics Challenges

May 17, 2013
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Frontier deepwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico is becoming more difficult as we enter deeper water, much deeper reservoirs and potential under salt. As a result, we are faced with prospects that are supported by little to no amplitude, tiny seismic bandwidth as well as flat amplitude variation with offset (AVO) that sit in [...]

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Parades and Second-Line Shootings

May 13, 2013
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This Mother’s Day weekend, we attended our first Art Car Parade since moving to Houston. It is a once-a-year welcome addition of color, music and a carnival-like atmosphere to the otherwise sterile streets of this city. Tame as the parade was parade watchers’ reaction to a pretty funky spectacle was compared with the level of [...]

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I Made A Pretty Robust Well-To-Seismic Tie

April 26, 2013
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One of the tools in the geophysical workflow is the well-to-seismic tie. This is a calibration step involving the generation of a “synthetic seismic” from well data and comparing it to actual seismic data collected over the area. It ensures robustness or goodness of fit, i.e. that interfaces and intervals interpreted on the seismic data [...]

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April 25, 2013

Incidentally, no new books have been posted to the sidebar as I am re-reading William Gibson’s Neuromancer after almost two decades. The first time around, I was fresh out of high school and well-traveled for my age, so the book spoke to the cosmopolitan idealist in me but was pretty opaque in terms of references [...]

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Why Geoscientists Need To Care About Process Efficiency

April 24, 2013
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While on vacation in the Virgin Islands, our little group took the opportunity to spend a day on Anegada. This little isle is a part of the UK, the northeasternmost of all of the Virgin Islands and “unique in that it is composed exclusively of carbonate rock … and that its relief is only 25 [...]

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The Virgin Islands and Northern Ohio

April 23, 2013
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Places I’ve been in the last two weeks, that is. D and I were on the US and British Virgin Islands for 8 days. I highly recommend the island of St. John, with day trips to the other islands including Jost van Dyke, Anegada and Tortola, over St. Thomas. Vacation is supposed to look like [...]

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The Ones Who Left

April 2, 2013

Nitin Sawhney tweets, “My dad – One of that generation who came to England with a few pence and a heart full of humility… took all the racist crap for our future.” These words fill me with love, sadness and anger, directed mainly at Sawhney’s father and mine. Why did these sweet, humble men put [...]

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Google Reader: Parting Notes

March 15, 2013
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If you use Google’s feedreader known as Reader or pay any attention to the internet, you may have heard that Google Reader will no longer exist at mid-year. These are some of my comments on its retirement. 1. Read my friend Bob Plankers’s post in its entirety: What Content Creators and Consumers Should Do Now [...]

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