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Wavenumber Correction For the Recording Group Effects In the Seismic Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
The Correlation Distance of Incoherent Seismic Noise In Geophone Arrays
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A New Method For Highly Repeatable Time-lapse Seismic Acquisition
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A Field Comparison of 3-C Land Streamer Versus Planted Geophone Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
2007 Arctic On-ice Seismic Experiment: Operations And Results From a 2D/3D Seismic Program to Investigate Mitigation of the Ice Flexural Wave
Mark E. Davidson; Patsy R. Jorgensen; Robert L. Rosenbladt; Stefano Sandroni; Simone Baudo; Gilbert Del Molino
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Numerical Modeling of Seismic Acquisition Footprint
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Elastic-wave Sensitivity Analysis For Seismic Monitoring
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A Deep Seismic Reflection Study of the Great Sumatra Earthquake Using Schlumberger’s QMarine Technology
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Where is the Center of a Multi-depth Marine Source Array?
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Building Representative Velocity And Density Models For a Finite-difference Modeling Study In Offshore Nile-Delta, Egypt
Nurul Kabur; Elizabeth L'Heureux; Craig Scherschel; Graham Johnson; Walter Rietveld; Jim Keggin; Brian Barley
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
An Efficient And Effective Multi-Streamer, Dual-Source Parameter Test
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
An Ocean Bottom Seismic Node Repeatability Study
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Source And Receiver Measurements And Corrections For the Effects of Sea Surface Wave Heights
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A Single-vessel Method For Wide-azimuth Towed-streamer Acquisition
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Evaluating Infill Requirements When Acquiring a Marine 3D Seismic Survey Along Pre-plot Lines
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Wave Equation Based 3D SRME Impact On Wide Azimuth Towed Streamer Survey Design
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Seismic Survey Design, Data Acquisition And Processing of Complex Andean Structures
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Practical Issues In Achieving High-quality HFVS Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Profiling the Vibrator Envelope At Low Frequencies
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Alternative Strategies For Tackling Scattered Noise
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Broadband Vibroseis Using Simultaneous Pseudorandom Sweeps
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Single-sensor Vibroseis Acquisition In Complex Thrust Belt Areas; A Case Study From Dubai
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Efficient Wave Field Sampling In Vibroseis Operations.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
3-D Seismic Acquisition In Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina: A Case History.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
The Footprint Simulation And Analysis For Offshore Seismic Tow-cable Acquisition
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Over-Under Deghosting: 1D, 2D Or 3D Algorithms In the F, FK Or FXY Domains
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Intelligent Infill For Cost Effective 3D Seismic Marine Acquisitions
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Seismic Acquisition Techniques In Complex Mountainous Areas: Case Study In Kuqa Foreland Basin, Western China
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
The Estimation of Noise Suppression of 3D Recording Geometry And Its Application
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Low Frequencies Using Conventional Sensors: .Sign-bit. Recording Revisited
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Effects of Seismic Blasting In Thickly Populated Areas, an Experimental Study In Upper Assam, India
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A New Technology of Optimizing Survey Design On Real-Surface Model
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Target Oriented Illumination Analysis Using Wave Equation
Gustavo Catao Alves; Andre Bulcao; Djalma Manoel Soares Filho; Marcos Antonio Galloti Guimaraes; Carlos Eduardo Theodoro; Luiz Alberto Santos
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Improving Sensor Technology Brings a New Level of Reservoir Understanding
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Comparison of Single Sensor 3C MEMS And Conventional Geophone Arrays For Deep Target Exploration
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Field Data Comparison: 3C-2D Data Acquisition With Geophones And Accelerometers
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Reconstructing Head Waves With Virtual Source Method
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Microphone Experiments And Applications In Exploration Seismology
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Illumination of the Subsurface Towards Identifying Shadow Zones And Optimizing Target Images
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
P-wave Azimuthal Anisotropy From a Full-Wave Seismic Field Trial In Wamsutter
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Azimuthal Anisotropy Characterization With Multicomponent Virtual Shear Sources At Rulison Field, Colorado
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Preserving Azimuthal Velocity Information: Experiences With Cross-spread Noise Attenuation And Offset Vector Tile PreSTM
Alexander Calvert; Edward Jenner; Robert Jefferson; Robert Bloor; Nicola Adams; Rosemarie Ramkhelawan; Chris St.Clair
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Using Geomechanical Modeling And Wide-azimuth Data to Quantify Stress Effects And Anisotropy Near Salt Bodies In the Gulf of Mexico
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Estimating Subsurface Stress Direction And Intensity From Surface Full Azimuth Land Data.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
The Benefit of TTI Tomography For Dual Azimuth Data In Gulf of Mexico
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
STI Media In Practice, Why And When to Use It
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Estimating Lateral Positioning Uncertainty After Anisotropic Depth Migration: a Thrust Belt Case History
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
5D Interpolation, PSTM And AVO Inversion
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Overburden-dependent AVO Interpretation
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Sensitivity Analysis of Multicomponent Seismic Attributes to Fluid Content And Pore Pressure
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Mu-rho Direct Inversion For Volcanic Rock Reservoir Prediction: a Case Study of the Dinan Field, Junggar Basin
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
On AVO Gradient
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Estimation of Interval Anisotropic Attenuation From Reflection Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Picking the Sweet Spot Using Rock Physics
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Converted Wave AVO Inversion For Average Velocity Ratio And Shear Wave Reflection Coefficient
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
On Material Averaging In Electromagnetic Simulation
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Model Study On Through Casing Time Domain Electromagnetic (TEM) Probing
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Sensitivity Study And Inversion of the Fully-triaxial Induction Logging In Cross-bedded Anisotropic Formation
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Simulation of LWD Tool Response Using a Fast Integral Equation Method
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Comparing Tool Eccentricity Effects On LWD Propagation Resistivity For Oil-based And Waterbased Muds
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Practical Implications of Nonlinear Inversion For Cross-well Electromagnetic Data Collected In Cased-wells
Guozhong Gao; David Alumbaugh; Ping Zhang; Jianguo Liu; Hong Zhang; Cyrille Levesque; Richard Rosthal; Aria Abubakar; Tarek Habashy
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Nonlinear Inversion Approaches For Cross-well Electromagnetic Data Collected In Cased-Wells
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Modeling And Understanding the Triaxial Induction Logging In Borehole Environment With Dip Anisotropic Formation
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Fracture Compliance Estimation Using a Combination of Image And Sonic Logs
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
High-resolution Borehole Acoustic Imaging Through a Salt Dome
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Drill Bit As a Seismic Source For Near-well Imaging
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Estimation of Borehole Ellipticity Using Cross-dipole Dispersions
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Real-time Completion Monitoring of Deepwater Wells: Part I - Modeling And First Experiments
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
The Effect of Near-wellbore Yield On Elastic Wave Velocities In Sandstones
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Wavefield Separation For Borehole Acoustic Reflection Surveys Using Parametric Inversion
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Passive "drive By" Imaging In a Deep Water Production Well Using Permanent Borehole Seismic Sensors
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Prediction Ahead of the Bit Using Borehole Guided Waves
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Enhanced Anisotropic Model Building Methodology And Pre-stack Depth Imaging In Deep Water Gulf Of Mexico: A Case History
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Unlocking the Full Potential of Atlantis With OBS Nodes
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Controlled Beam Migration Applications In Gulf of Mexico
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Addressing Challenges In Deep Water Gulf of Mexico Depth Imaging Through Geologic Models And Acquisition Simulation - The Tempest Project
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A Realistic Deep Water Gulf of Mexico 3D Simulation And Imaging - The Tempest Simulation, Datasets And Imaging
Dana Jurick; Alex Bridge; Richard Brietzke; Adam Seitchik; Claude Pignol; David Kessler; Jeff Codd; Fatmir Hoxha
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Evaluating the Accuracy of Deep Water Gulf of Mexico Depth Imaging - The Tempest Results
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Challenges In Time & Depth: Imaging the Eastern Delta OBC Survey, a Case History
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Comparison of Frequency Attributes From CWT And MPD Spectral Decompositions of a Complex Turbidite Channel Model
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Seismic Prediction of Stringer Sands In Offshore Saudi Arabia
Harianto Soepriatna; Weihong Zhu; Mohammed Al-Otaibi; Thierry Tonellot; John Fitzmaurice; Sean Rahati
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Stratigraphic And Structural Volume Visualization of a Deltaic Marine Fan Complex, Niger Delta Nigeria: A Case History.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Extending the Limits of Technology to Explore Below the DHI Floor; Successful Application of Spectral Decomposition to Delineate DHI's Previously Unseen On Seismic Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Depth Imaging Over Structural Transverse Isotropy (STI) Media In the Presence of Complex Salt Bodies, Offshore West Africa
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Validating Models By Geologic And Seismic Modeling For Reducing Risk In Global Exploration - A Case-study From the NCS
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Integrated Geology And Geophysics For Sub-salt Exploration-a Case Study From Offshore Brasil
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A Calibrated Dual-sensor Streamer Investigation of Deep Target Signal Resolution And Penetration On the NW Shelf of Australia
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Complex Imaging Challenges: Offshore South East India.
Pranaya Sangva; Ajoy Biswal; Mohit Mathur; Juergen Fruehn; Phil Smith; Ian F. Jones; Dave King; Mike Goodwin; Victoria Valler
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
3D Beam Prestack Depth Migration With Examples From Around the World
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Wide-azimuth Complex Structural Imaging In Liaohe Basin
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Seismic Data Mapping Scheme Based On Migration/demigration Applied In the Overthrust Data Processing: A Case History In Tianshan Mountain
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Integration of Seismic Attribute Analysis And Well Data to Identify Depositional Trends: A Case Study From Kuwait
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
3D Multi-scale Tomography: A Case Study From Oklahoma Mountain Front
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Seismic Characterization of Fractured Tight Gas Reservoirs, Piceance Basin, Colorado
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Lessons From a World-First Onshore Cableless Full-Wavefield 3D Seismic Survey
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Successful Gas Hydrate Prospecting Using 3D Seismic-a Case Study For the Mt. Elbert Prospect, Milne Point, North Slope Alaska
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Extending the Seismic Bandwidth-A Simultaneous Uncorrelated VSP And Surface Seismic Field Test Study
Shabbir Ahmed; Jakob B.U. Haldorsen; Richard T. Coates; César Barajas Olalde; Huibert B. Heijna; Riyadh Al-Saad; Peter I. Pecholcs
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Rock Physics Modeling Applied to Quantitative Evaluation of Shallow Gas Potential of Plio-Peistocene Foreland Basin, Southwestern Taiwan
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Building RMS Velocity Model For Seismic Data Recorded On a Non-flat Surface Topography: Experience With a Mountainous Area In the Southern China.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Well Log And Synthetic Seismogram Analysis of an Oilfield In Assam, India: A 3C Seismic Development Feasibility Study.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Case Studies On Oil And Water Wells Separation And Gas Sand Prediction In a Coal Formation Using Wavelet Selection And Volume-based Seismic Waveform Decomposition
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Noise Attenuation Aspects of Single-sensor Seismic Data, Case Study From Kuwait
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
2D Traveltime Inversion For Gas Hydrates In Kerala-Konkan Basin, Western Offshore India
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Steam Effect On a Merged 3D Seismic Dataset
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Elastic Parameter AVO Approximations And Their Applications
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Single Sensors Versus Hard-wired Arrays In Amplitude Analysis
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Walkaway VSP Data Imaging Using a Multi-layered Anisotropic Model
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Vector Kirchhoff Migration of Virtual-Source VSP Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Wide Azimuth P-wave Fracture Detection Technology And Its Application
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Research On the Relation Between Pressure And Damage Factor of Cracked Media
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Velocity Anisotropy And X-ray Imaging of Barnett Shale
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Forward Modelling And Inversion of Multi-Source TEM Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Three-dimensional Forward Modelling And Inversion of Z-TEM Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Estimation of Cole-Cole Parameters From Time-domain Electromagnetic Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Three-Dimensional Marine Magnetotelluric Resolution For Subsalt Imaging And Case Study In the Gulf of Mexico
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Iterative Reconstruction Algorithm For Non-linear Operators
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A Three-dimensional Multiplicative-regularized Non-linear Inversion Algorithm For Cross-well Electromagnetic And Controlled-source Electromagnetic Applications
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Large-scale Electromagnetic Modeling For Multiple Inhomogeneous Domains
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Fast 3-D Simulation of Transient Electromagnetic Fields By Model Reduction In the Frequency Domain Using Krylov Subspace Projection
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Probabilistic Joint Inversion of TD-CSEM, MT And DC Data For Hydrocarbon Exploration
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
CSEM Inversion: Impact of Anisotropy, Data Coverage, And Initial Models
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Optimal Conductivity Reconstruction Using Three-dimensional Joint And Model-based Inversion For Controlled-source And Magnetotelluric Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
3D Inversion of Marine CSEM Data Using a Fast Finite-difference Time-domain Forward Code And Approximate Hessian-based Optimization
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Inversion of 3D Time-domain EM Data For High Conductivity Contrasts
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Using the Equivalent Source Technique to Estimate Noise In 4D TEM Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Three-dimensional Electromagnetic Holographic Imaging In Offshore Petroleum Exploration
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Array TEM Sounding And Application For Reservoir Monitoring
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
1D, 2D And 3D Modeling And Inversion of 3D CSEM Data Offshore West Africa
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Inversion Study of a Large Marine CSEM Survey
J.J. Carazzone; T.A. Dickens; K.E. Green; C. Jing; D.E. Willen; L.A. Wahrmund; G.A. Newman; M. Commer
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Quantifying Factors Affecting Repeatability In CSEM Surveying For Reservoir Appraisal And Monitoring.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Marine Time Domain CSEM: an Emerging Technology
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Seismic And EM Rock Physics And Modeling, Norwegian Sea
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Frontier Exploration By Electromagnetic Scanning-A Deep Water Example
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Successful Transient EM Survey In the North Sea At 100 M Water Depth
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Removal of Sea-surface-related Wavefields And Source Replacement In CSEM Data Processing
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Anisotropy of Induced Polarization In the Context of the Generalized Effective-medium Theory
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
CSEM Survey Design For Successful Imaging
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Born Approximation Inversion For the Marine CSEM Data Set
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Lower And Upper Bounding Constraints of Model Parameters In Inversion of Geophysical Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Possible Source Effects Observed In a Magnetotelluric Monitoring Site In Southern Italy
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
De-Risking Exploration Prospects Using Controlled Source Electromagnetic Surveys
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Modeling In-line Data For Seabed Logging With 2.5D And 3D Integral Equations
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A Sensitivity Analysis of the Sea Bed Logging Technique With Respect to Reservoir Heterogeneities
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Borehole Magnetics: Magnetostratigraphy: An Example From UNAM-7, Chicxulub Impact Crater
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Monitoring Water Front Advancements With Down-hole Gravity Sensors
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Joint Inversion of Surface And Borehole 4D Gravity Data For Continuous Characterization of Fluid Contact Movement
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Survey Design And Model Appraisal Based On Resolution Analysis For 4D Gravity Monitoring
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Use of Enhancement Filters In Modelling Magnetic Field Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Spatial Domain Filtering of Specific Frequencies: Curvature Isolation of Potential Field Signals
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Adaptive Learning Gravity Inversion For 3D Salt Body Imaging
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Focusing Inversion of Marine Full-tensor Gradiometry Data In Offshore Geophysical Exploration
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
The DNSC07 High Resolution Global Marine Gravity Field
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Earth Gravitational Model 2008
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
EMAG3: A 3-arc-minute Resolution Global Magnetic Anomaly Grid Compiled From Satellite, Airborne And Marine Magnetic Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Origin And Enhancement of Gravity And Magnetic Signatures of the Continental-oceanic Boundary (COB): Examples From West Africa Passive Margin
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Gravity, Magnetic And Seismic Data Integration For Structural Configuration And Its Hydrocarbon Evaluation In the San Juan-Tumaco Basins, Offshore Colombia
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Magnetic Interpretation Made Easy: The Tilt-Depth-Dip- ?K Method
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
The Effect of Topography In Calculating the Atmospheric Correction In Gravimetry
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
3-D Magnetic Data-space Inversion With Sparseness Constraints
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Cluster Analysis of Euler Deconvolution Solutions: New Filtering Techniques And Actual Link to Geological Structure
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
An Integrated Geophysical Study of the Wet Mountains, Southern Colorado.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Continuous Wavelet Transform of Potential Fields With Different Choices of Analyzing Wavelets
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Vent Complex At Heidrun
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Integrated Geophysical Inversion of Sedimentary Basement In Northern Deep-water Areas of China South Sea
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Reinterpretation of VES Data (Saiss Basin, Morocco) Using Geostatistics And 2D Electrical Inversion Methods
Riss Joëlle; Fernandez Martinez Juan Luis; Sirieix Colette; Harmouzi Ouassima; Marache Antoine; Essahlaoui Ali
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Attribute-aided Interpretation of Common Angle Volumes
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Uncertainty Reduction In Reservoir Modeling By Joint Inversion of Seismic & Geo-Statistics
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
How Thin Is A Thin Bed? An Alternative Perspective
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Seismic Attributes And Gravity And Magnetic Transformations: The Same Mathematics Under Different Names For Different Geophysical Data Sets
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
New Structural Mapping of Basement Features In the Fort Worth Basin, Texas, Using Highresolution Aeromagnetic Derivatives And Euler Depth Estimates
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Geovolume Visualization And Interpretation: What Makes a Useful Visualization Seismic Attribute?
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Prestack Spectral Blueing: A Tool For Increasing Seismic Resolution
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Detection of Channels In Seismic Images Using the Steerable Pyramid
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Predictive Painting of 3-D Seismic Volumes
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Simulated Annealing For Hierarchical Seismic Pattern Detection
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A Knowledge-based Approach of Seismic Interpretation : Horizon And Dip-fault Detection By Means of Cognitive Vision.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Confidence And Curvature-Guided Level Sets For Channel Segmentation
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Expanding the Applicability of Curvature Attributes Through Clarification of Ambiguities In Derivation And Terminology
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
2D Seismic Sections In 3D Display: Color And Shape
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Visualizing Spectral Decomposition Using the View Locked Color Image Grand Tour
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Waveform Presentation of Seismic Traces By a Parallel Algorithm
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A Methodology For Structural Analysis of Seismic Folds
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Attribute Illumination of Basement Faults, Cuu Long Basin, Vietnam
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
3D Seismic Visualization of Shelf-margin to Slope Channels Using Curvature Attributes
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Volumetric Application of Skewed Spectra
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Coherence Cube Based On Curvelet Transform
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Pannotian Breakup (Iapetan Opening) Features In Central Oklahoma
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Prospect Characterization of the First 3D Seismic Offshore Cyprus And Lebanon
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Analysis of Tectonic Subsidence of the Colombian Basin, Caribbean Sea
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Fracture Recognition Vis-à-vis Structural Styles In a Deep Jurassic Reservoir of North Kuwait.
Sunil Kumar Singh; Mefarreh Al-Dkheel; Meshal Al-Wadi; Nikhil Chandra Banik; Salah Abdullah Abdulmalik
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Fault And Natural Fracture Identification From Multicomponent Seismic At Rulison Field, Colorado
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Stochastic Geocellular Model of Tidal Sands In South Tapti Gas Field Using Field Mapping, Satellite Image, Seismic Mapping And Well-log Data, Western India
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Attribute Expression of Mass Transport Deposits In an Intraslope Basin- A Case Study.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Seismic Attribute-assisted Interpretation of Channel Geometries And Infill Lithology: A Case Study of Anadarko Basin Red Fork Channels.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Analysis of Walkaround VSP Azimuthal Response Using Borehole Images
Etienne Loubens; Laurent Escaré; Jeroen Jocker; Muhammad Idrees; Philippe Montaggioni; Romain Prioul
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Wide-azimuth Techniques For Processing High Density 3D OBC Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Five Dimensional Seismic Data Interpolation
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Azimuthal Attribute Methodologies: Comparison of NMO Super Gathers, Sectored Isotropic Migration, Iterative Azimuthal Migration
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Azimuthal Processing For Fracture Prediction And Image Improvement
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Constructing an Anisotropic Velocity Model For Ocean Bottom Seismic Node Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Seismic Data Acquisition Using Ocean Bottom Seismic Nodes At the Deimos Field, Gulf of Mexico
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Impact of Feathering On Imaging For Wide Azimuth Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
An Exploration-Scale Wide Azimuth Towed Streamer Case Study
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A New Method to Extract Reliable Density Information From PS Waves
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
A Method For Compensation For Offset-dependent Tuning And Differential Attenuation In Converted-wave Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
PP-PS Dual Inversion Applied to 2D-3C Seismic Data: Xushen Gas Field (Daqing, China)
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Three-component Converted-wave Data Processing And Its Application In a Complicated Area
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Case History: Converted-wave Splitting Estimation And Compensation
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Simultaneous P- And S-wave Interval Velocity Model Building of Near-seafloor Geology Using OBC Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Automated C-wave Registration By Simulated Annealing
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Analysis On the Multicomponent Seismic Amplitudes
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Ground Roll Polarization Filtering With Spatial Smoothness Constraints
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Constrained Polarization Filtering For Surface-wave Mitigation
Marvin L. Johnson; Andrew P. Shatilo; Gary C. Szurek; Warren S. Ross; Christine E. Krohn; Mamadou E. Diallo
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Constrained Surface Wave Inversion From 9-component Seismic Reflection Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Salt Dome Flank Imaging With Elastodynamic Interferometric Redatuming
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Elastic Interferometry For OBC Data: Theory And Examples
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Space-frequency Domain Processing of Irregular Dual-sensor Towed Streamer Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Wavefield Separation For Dual-sensor Data With Local Handling of Aliased Energy
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
PZ Calibration In Shallow Waters: the Britannia OBS Example
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Geological Mapping With Power Line Fields Measured With MEGATEM Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Numerical Modeling of Z-TEM (airborne AFMAG) Responses to Guide Exploration Strategies
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Should We Care About Negative Transients In Helicopter TEM Data?
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Time-constant Analysis of Frequency-domain EM Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
The Effect of Discrete Conductivity Isotropy On Electromagnetic Surveys
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Minimum-structure Borehole Gravity Inversion
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Modeling Archean Diapiric Tectonics: What Can We Learn About Greenstone Belt Metallogeny?
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Optimal Sensor Configuration For Total-field Magnetometers
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
The Use of Unmanned Aircraft In Oil, Gas And Mineral E+P Activities
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Exploration On the Cinco De Mayo Carbonate Replacement Project, Chihuahua, Mexico
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Geophysical Signature of the Mt. Milligan Cu/Au Deposit In the Quesnel Porphyry Belt
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Exploring For Geothermal Reservoirs Using Broadband 2-D MT And Gravity In Hungary
Lanfang He; Zhanxiang He; Kurt Strack; Norman Allegar; Gang Yu; Helga Tulinius; László Ádám; Heiða Halldórsdóttir
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Characterizing a Geothermal Reservoir Using Broadband 2-D MT Survey In Theistareykir, Iceland
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
The Application of DSU1 High Density 3-D In Coal Field Exploration
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Integrating Geophysics And Geology In 3D
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Wavelet And Statistical Investigation of Density And Susceptibility Data From the Bellevue Drill Core And Moordkopje Borehole, Bushveld Complex, South Africa
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Coherency Attribute Algorithm For Polarimetric Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
An Inverse Scattering Framework For Direct Multi-parameter Geo-radar Inversion
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Closed Loop Hydrogeophysical Inversion of Time-lapse GPR Data to Determine Hydraulic Properties of a Sandy Soil
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Inversion of TE And TM Dispersive GPR Data For Properties of a Layered Waveguide
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Quasi 3-D Inversion of Electromagnetic Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Characterization of Fracture System of a Shale Aquifer Using Azimuthal Resistivity Survey: A Case History From CAS Campus, Ebonyi State University, Nigeria.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Estimation of Water Table From Self-potential Data Using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
High-resolution Seismic Reflection to Image Hydrogeologic Sequences
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Characterization of a Fractured Bedrock Groundwater System For Environmental Remediation Using Borehole Geophysics And 3D Seismic Data
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Gaining a Geostatistical Advantage In Near-surface Modeling
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Constraining Geophysical Inversions With Geologic Information
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Presenting a Free, Highly Flexible Inversion Code
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Application of High-resolution Linear Radon Transform For Rayleigh-wave Dispersive Energy Imaging And Mode Separating
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Inversion Using Bayesian Hyper-Prior Formulation For Sharp Boundaries
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Resistivity Tomography And Borehole Data Analysis In the Detection of Pre-Holocene Relief In Pireaus City, Greece.
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Characterization of Frequency-Dependent Magnetic Susceptibility In UXO Electromagnetic Geophysics
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
UXO Detection And Prioritization Using Combined Airborne Vertical Magnetic Gradient And Time-Domain Electromagnetic Methods
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
High-resolution Seismic Imaging of Active Strike-slip Faults In Coastal And Offshore Southern California
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Raypath Interferometry: Statics In Difficult Places
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Non-intrusive Monitoring Using Seismic Tomography At the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Seismic Modeling And Analysis of the Prototype Heated Nuclear Waste Storage Tunnel, Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.
Acquiring Shear-wave Information In Shallow-water Environment From Field Data Near Ghent, Belgium
Paper presented at the 2008 SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2008.