The past five years has seen a drastic turnaround in oil production as companies continue to focus their attention on proven reserves rather than new exploration to profit from high prices.
This article will demonstrate a new tomography method that is accurate, allows the user to be very productive and greatly reduces the iteration cycle time for updating velocity models.
While older Russian, Chinese and Western log suites recorded excellent information (for example, the deep investigation of resistivity), working through the data using Russian and Western chart books is an extremely tedious and difficult undertaking.
Larry A. Walter is Chief Geophysicist at OYO Geospace Corporation.