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Technical Breakfast the corresponding Wiener filters and the output seismic phase errors are I N S I D E Applying Relative Entropy smaller. Spectrum Deconvolution Speaker biography: GSH Meetings ______John F. Parrish received a B.S. Date: Thursday degree in physics (1964) from Loyola GSH Technical Breakfast, May 13, 1999 University of , then M.S. May 13 ...... 1 Time: 7:00 a.m. breakfast, and Ph.D. degrees in physics (1966 & 7:45 a.m. Upcoming Meetings ...... 1 1969) from Massachusetts Institute of presentation, Technology. After working for Hughes 8:15 to 8:30 a.m. SIPES Continuing Education Seminar ...... 3 Aircraft Company, Ground Systems Q&A Group, as a radar engineer and for Reservoir Geophysics SIG ...... 6 Place: CGG, Park Row, NASA, ERC, as an infrared Houston, Texas. 1999 GSH Annual Meeting ...... 7 spectroscopist, he joined Shell Cost: No cost Development Company as a 1999 SEG Annual Meeting ...... 13 Reservations: by noon Monday, geophysicist in 1969. He has worked April 5. Code 607 Worldwide Technology Forum ...... 15 on diverse projects within Shell Oil Company, serving as party-chief, John F. Parrish inventor, future-ologist, supervisor of Shell E&P Technology Company Articles and Comments ______geophysical programming, and flying A theoretical exposition of doctor. His current interests include minimum relative entropy spectrum Review of Visualization Conference ...... 4 3D deconvolution, quantitative signal deconvolution (REDCON) was processing for seismic imaging, and Geo Events Calendar Info ...... 11 presented in November 1997 at the interference and noise suppression. Legislative Up-date ...... 12 67th Annual International Meeting of the Society of Exploration Houston - Geosciences: Geophysicists. The REDCON filter is The Geosciences Forum for the derived from both a current observation Upcoming GeoEvents Greater Houston Area ...... 12 of the autocorrelation function of the June 7 seismic record and an expected output North American spectrum for the same time-space gate. Explorationists Group Social Events ______This unique filter converts the observed Clastic Depositional Systems seismic spectrum into a practical GSH Awards Banquet ...... 8-11 Symposium approximation of the expected, but look for more details in next only if appropriate noise (energy or GSH Golf Tournament ...... 14 month’s Bulletin entropy) constraints are imposed. Examples will be shown of some June 11 typical (marine) observed spectra. HGS Guest Night Wiener (whitening) deconvolution of Crowne Plaza Hotel these spectra can distort the output seismic phase in order to adapt to very June 21 low and very high frequency noises or International Explorationists to non-minimum phase characteristics Dinner Meeting of the acquisition system. Practical July 10 rules-of-thumb for choosing relative HGS Skeet Shoot entropy deconvolution constraints will be discussed. The resulting REDCON “What to do with the Rest of filters are generally more robust than Your Life” May 22-23. 2

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Date: Tuesday, Topics Abstract May 18, 1999 1) What type of work to do — Robert A theoretical exposition of Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 Pledger minimum relative entropy spectrum p.m. Please plan to 2) Bookkeeping and tax information deconvolution (REDCON) was arrive by 7:30 a.m., for the self-employed — Neil presented in November 1997 at the so that we may begin Blakely 67th Annual International Meeting of promptly at 8:00 3) Legal liabilities, business structure, the Society of Exploration Location: The Shell Auditorium, and oil and gas agreements — Ron Geophysicists. The REDCON filter is conveniently located Moore derived from both a current observation downtown on the 4) Intellectual property - the of the autocorrelation function of the tunnel system beneath consequences of theft of geological seismic record and an expected output the lobby of One Shell ideas — Jim Pearson spectrum for the same time-space gate. Plaza. 5) Prospect generation - setting up This unique filter converts the observed Price: Pre-registration the office and obtaining data — seismic spectrum into a practical $50.00 Ray Blackhall approximation of the expected, but At the door 6) How to monitor the activities of only if appropriate noise (energy or registration $65.00 your drilling and production entropy) constraints are imposed. To Register: Please send your operator — Roger Casey Examples will be shown of some name, address, phone 7) Assembling and selling prospects typical (marine) observed spectra. number and a check - what a deal screener wants to see to: — Scott Laurent SIPES HOUSTON CHAPTER 8) Computer applications for the self- 811 Dallas, Suite 1416 employed — Deborah Sacrey Houston, Texas 77002 Questions? Call B. K. Starbuck @ 713-651-1639

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WHO: Will Morse over goes to the scholarship fund. The 1024 pixels. A screen capable of really WHAT: Geophysical Society of organizations included: managing a wide FOV would need two Houston 1999 Spring Baker Hughes and Western Atlas: to three times that, at least in the Symposium 15th the printing costs for the proceedings horizontal. Annual SEG Gulf “COTS”, Common Off The Shelf. Coast Technical Silicon Graphics: the bus costs No one wants to build or code if they Meeting Pyramid Systems: box lunches for can find something that already covers “Exploiting Immersive the bus tour what they need done. This leads to a Environments in Oil lot of use of VR toolkits, authoring and Gas” Continuum Resources: soft drinks tools, and other products. WHEN: April 15-16, 1999 on the bus and for the reception “POV”, Point of View. It is WHERE: Houston, Texas necessary that each participant in a WHY: Learn about various The conference was a huge collaborative visualization system types and approaches success. One could easily pay $1000 maintain their own point of view. This to Visualization. or more for a similar conference in should also be communicated to others other circumstances. We had the participating in the exercise. Muse has SUMMARY: opportunity to see a wide variety of real a little “craft” pointer that helps keep The first day was a set of talks world systems that would be hard to everyone oriented to what each given at the Hilton Hotel at the see in any other venue. Kudos go to participant is looking at. University of Houston. The talks were the committee, which includes: “Cybersickness”. When we generally organized starting out to learned about the five senses in school, show the value of visualization in other Roice Nelson Cheyl Stevens they left one out. That is the ability to industries and ending with more Shane Coperude Scott Sechrist sense one’s orientation. Virtual Reality specific applications to the energy Tim Hartnett Joe Stevens can cause your eyes to think you are business. A large binder (really, almost Dan Ebrom Jim DiSiena in a different orientation than your a narrow bookshelf) of various papers Bob Tatham inner ears think, leading to nausea. and other materials were provided. “manifold”. Not really a visualization Extra binders are available for a small SELECTED NOTES: concept, this is really more a statistical fee from the GSH. 1. Some concepts. concept. It is the shape that The second day was a bus tour to “LOD”, Level of Detail. The way incorporates all the points in a set of eight centers in Houston where this a computer draws pictures is by points in a volume display. technology is in use. These centers drawing a polygon and filling that were: polygon with either a single color or 2. Types of collaborative The University of Houston with a texture. A texture is a repeating approaches. Baylor College of Medicine set of colors in a pattern. When the Doug Willie of Landmark Graphics Rice University object being drawn is “close”, there are described approaches including: Veritas a lot of polygons used to express Emergency room - Two or more Texaco various details. As the object goes to of every type of visualization device. GeoQuest, “far away”, many of these polygons Star Trek - One person runs the Landmark and reduce to a dot, or simply disappear, show, there is a common screen but Continuum Resources. and therefore the computer should not individuals also have additional waste time trying to render these workstations. A variety of approaches were polygons. Mission Control - Several people demonstrated including rear projection “FOV”, Field of View. A typical have a large share in the control. Once multi-wall presentation systems, workstation screen occupies less than again a large screen for shared CAVE’s (Computer Augmented 30 degrees of the typical user’s field of information but smaller individual Visualization Environments), curved view. Most of the technologies workstations for additional screen front projection systems, table discussed here occupy from 120 to information. based systems, and workstation 180 degrees, which involves the user Brain Surgery - one person has systems. more in the picture. To do this the whole visualization but is supported The cost of the conference was successfully requires a greater number by others not “in the picture”. $150 for both days. Several of pixels on the screen (not JUST a organizations also contributed items to bigger screen). A typical workstation make this successful. Any money left screen has a resolution of 1170 by Conference Review continued on page 5

Geophysical Society of Houston 5 Conference Review continued from page 4 well). Tables also seem to have here like data privacy and so on, but preferred viewing directions and each company has a different system Group Brain Surgery - several therefore serve a smaller number than so if you tried all three you could learn people are in the picture and seeing one might think. a lot. each others interactions. I was most impressed with the Lewis in Houston, Clark in large circular screens, partially because 7. Role of sound and touch, Field Antarctica, Remotely Canoe up the of the many pixels, and therefore the of View. Mississippi. ability to reasonably display a lot of While several speakers stated that information, and partially because of sound and touch (indeed, smell) were 3. Other Industries. the software (especially at Texaco) to needed to fully engage the potential of The most obvious application of blend the edges of the pipes to the human mind to solve a problem, these types of technologies is in eliminate seams in the display. no one made that case very well for training. There were examples given A particularly interesting display geoscience applications. of training astronauts, soldiers, and was the 3D Flat Panel from Dimension It was also suggested that a larger medical students and personnel using Technologies (represented by Pyramid field of view is needed to bring out the full feedback haptic devices (gloves and Systems). This is a flat panel that can genius in usrs, which I think is probably other devices that detect the wearer’s be viewed without using stereo glasses. true for training applications, but no movement and may provide a sense My only complaint would be that the one really demonstrated anything I of tactile feedback). These sorts of largest model is only 18" and though would make that case in technologies would be useful in the 1280x1024 pixels. As larger flat geoscience applications. In fact, I petroleum business for training rig panels become available, this could thought the GoCAD demonstration on crew, emergency training, flight really be a strong way to handle the the “Immersadesk” at Rice went a long operations crew, security personnel. low end. way to prove the opposite. Basically any kind of hands on skill GeoQuest sells the Vision Dome. To really benefit from sound, where the training would be expensive, GeoQuest is updating GeoViz so that touch, or FOV requires, I believe, a interruptive, or dangerous using real all the menus can appear on a second fairly kinematic application. Training equipment. (standard) head so that you don’t need soldiers, astronauts, oil field emergency All the examples were interesting, to have the menus cluttering up the crews, and so on have that situation. even fascinating, although it was not VisionDome, which more or less has Looking at reservoirs really does not. always clear what we in the exploration to be on the primary head to take Will Morse is now the UNIX Guru industry would do with these advantage of the graphics adapters. for Anadarko, previously BHP. Will has techniques. for some years now routinely attended 5. Landmark IdeaLab technical events and posted his 4. Facilities. Landmark is now calling their observations and reviews to the There are many levels of this sort system that used to be called sci.geo.petroleum newsgroup. of technology, each with their own “Decisionarium” “IdeaLab” which He was asked if he would be willing costs and benefits. I gathered that it is stands for Integrated Decision to share his notes with the GSH for very likely that any company looking Environment for Asset Teams Lab. publication. to get into this technology needs to stop Gotta get those buzz words in. thinking of it as “this technology” and OpenVision can use multipipes, but start thinking in terms of specific apparently no other Landmark answers for specific needs. software can. Landmark showed a It is entirely possible that a single geologic cross section using about Change of company may need some parts of the twenty logs on the curved screen. That Membership Status technology in one facility and other was pretty good. parts in another facility. The same 1. Margi Oldani - AC as of 4-12- Landmark made the point that the company may need a cave AND a 99 - Employed by Axis best use of the facility was made when presentation system AND several Geophysics the participants had an agenda and workstations. knew what they wanted to see. Typical Just buying a Reality Monster and 2. Zhenyue Liu - AC as of 4-12- only a small part of the time typical saying “see, we’re high tech too” is not 99 - Employed by Exxon users work do they use stereo 3D. going to make it. Someone offered that “If you have to ask how much it 3. Michael Rosenberg - AC as of 6. Try before you buy. costs, then you’re not ready to buy.” 4-12-99 - Employed by Exxon Landmark Graphics, GeoQuest, I found that the CAVE has a and Continuum Resources rent out definite ‘sweet spot” and would only 4. Glenn Bear - upgraded to their facility so you can see how it be really useful for at most three people Active on 4-9-99 - Employed works for you before you make a big (some might say six, but I think they by Exxon investment. There are a lot of issues would have to know each other awfully

Geophysical Society of Houston 6 GSH Reservoir Presentation title: limitations of using multi-component Physical Modeling of Multi- data to detect fluids in a reservoir. Geophysics SIG Component Seismics Date: Thursday afternoon, Speaker 2: May 27, 1999 Time: Presentation abstract: Anning Hou 4:30 - 6:30 pm Multi-component data provides an Allied Geophysical Laboratories, Social 4:30 - 5:00 pm extra dimension to reservoir geophysics University of Houston Presentation One because that it records 3D particle 5:00 - 5:45 pm motions of all wave modes. Such data Speaker biography: Presentation Two undoubtedly contains rich information Anning Hou received MS (1988) 5:45 - 6:30 pm revealing the nature of subsurface and PhD (1994) in Geophysics from Location: Bowie Room of HESS geology and fluids, if we have the right Changchun University of Earth Building 5430 acquisition and analyzing methodology. Sciences in China. He worked with Westheimer Road. In acquisition, we are now able to the Chinese Third Division of Oil Call (713) 627-2283 if acquire multi-component data in both Exploration Bureau during 1982-85 you need more onshore and offshore, thanks to the and with Changchun University of directions. recent advancement in ocean-bottom- Earth Sciences during 1988-94. He Speakers: Dr. Zhou and Dr. Hou cable technology and ocean-bottom was a professor of Tongji University from Allied seismography. Since most processing since 1996, before becoming a Geophysical and interpretation tools were designed Research Associate at the Allied Laboratories, for acoustic data, however, we need to Geophysical Lab. of University of University of Houston strengthen our ability to analyze multi- Houston in 1998. Dr. Hou has been Cost: NONE. component data. Seismic physical involved in projects on wave equation modeling is an effective way to assist modeling, migration, multi-component Theme: the analysis of multi-component data, data processing, seismic inversion and Multi-component seismic physical because it provides realistic data with fracture detection. His current interests modeling and depth imaging known solutions. Using multi- include depth imaging and multi- component data collected from simple component AVO. Organizer: but meaningful physical models, we can Quincy Chen, Ph.D. test our ability to image the subsurface Presentation title: GSH Reservoir Geophysics SIG and, even more importantly, the Multi-Component Depth Imaging with Chairman possibility of deciphering the a Pseudo-Spectral Method VP of Technology FACT, Inc. characteristics of reservoirs such as the [email protected] fluid types and content, pore pressure, Presentation abstract: (281)265-2512, 265-7626 and even permeability. Multi-component data are superior This talk will use examples from to acoustic data for a number of seismic Speaker 1: seismic physical modeling conducted applications, including imaging Hua-wei Zhou in the Allied Geophysical Laboratories complex areas such as that involved Allied Geophysical Laboratories, of University of Houston to illustrate with gas chimney and salt, reservoir University of Houston the usefulness of multi-component characterization for lithology, porosity, data. Examples include the seismic and fractures, and fluid detection based Speaker biography: response of a porous physical model, on bright spot, oil/water and gas/water Hua-wei Zhou is an Associate and test results from piezo-electric films contacts. These applications also Professor in Geophysics at University to simulate buried multi-component challenges our imaging methods. For of Houston (UH). He earned a BS in shots and receivers. In particular, I’ll example, very high accuracy in the mathematics from China University of show seismic records acquired using computation is required at places of Geosciences in 1980, a MS in Geology multi-component shots and receivers strong contrasts in velocity and from Cal State Long Beach in 1984, over a physical model of a dome filled Poisson’s ratio. To satisfy the and a PhD in Geophysics from Caltech with air and oil. Even with such a competing needs for accuracy and for in 1989. After working at Exxon for simple model, the data contains a speed, we developed a pseudospectral over a year, Dr. Zhou returned to UH variety of seismic phases including prestack depth migration (PPDM) that in 1998 and serves as the Associate direct, reflected, multiple, and performs time-reversed wavefield Director of the Allied Geophysical Lab. converted waves as well as surface extrapolation using the pseudospectral Dr. Zhou has authored over thirty wave. The structure and air/water method. The current version of the journal papers in seismology, seismic contact are well imaged using a PPDM extrapolates common shot modeling, and tomography. combination of shear and converted gathers by the pseudospectral method, waves, as shown in the next talk. Such data highlights the advantage and Reservoir Geophysics continued on page 12

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Annual Honors and Awards Banquet Thursday, May 6, 1999 • Lakeside Country Club

GSH LIFE MEMBERS / HONORARY Art Ross • Bill Gilchrist Leon Thomsen • Phil Schultz

SEG 50 YEAR HONOREES

Robert A. Gilmore Alf Klaveness Edwin R. Scudday J. A. Keeling Harold F. Patterson C. L. Winn

SEG 25 YEAR HONOREES Halbert E. Adams A. C. Dubey Michael Edward Navolio Jerald M. Adams Townsend H. Dunn Dianne Broadaway Padgett Michael S. Adams Joseph K. Ellis George Donald Pality James L. Allen Warren Lee Franz Adrien Paul Pascouet Steven Alvarez-Wiemann Francis M. Gardiner Gerald Raymond Phillips G. Leigh Anderson David Russell Glenn Ugo C. Picchiani Otah Don Baldwin Sidney Cyrus Gold Roger Wilson Pierce Jack W. Ballard David Edwards Graham Jeffrey F. Reagan Jack R. Bantarri John Travis Griffin Walter Ritchie Pierre Benichou David J. Hall Gregory L. Rose Swapan Kumar Bhattacharjee Ernest M. Hall Dennis A. Rossi Eugene Sherwood Blasdel Richard J. Heaney Allen Ray Schmidt Marion Ray Bone John R. Hopkins Philip S. Schultz Victor C. Boyd Stephen Foster Hough Pedro Jose Segura Timothy S. Brown Daniel William Hughes Lester K. Sisemore Kenneth Bryan Butler Peter Kane Brian Starrett George Ellis Buzan Donald Curtis Lancon Michael J. Stearns Luis L. Canales William R. Landwer Richard K. Stevens Kenneth Walter Carlson Gary Lloyd Lenz Taha Mohammed Taha Arthur C. H. Cheng William M. Lloyd George Edward Threatt Shiang-ho Cheng Walter Stanley Lynn Billy Gerald Webster Yu Taik Chon Scott Lory Mattison Robert A. Wiener Craig William Cooper Richard Michael McCormic Harvey Daniel Wilson Lynn Allison Coyle James M. Medlin Michael R. Wisda Richard L. Crider James William Milliken Carol J. Zimmerman Jerome S. Danburg Dennis Gene Myers Robert James Davidson Kenneth A. Nadolny

Geophysical Society of Houston 9 Annual Honors and Awards Banquet Thursday, May 6, 1999 Lakeside Country Club

Honoring: Art Ross Bill Gilchrist Leon Thomsen Phil Schultz

On Thursday, May 6, 1999, the GSH will host it Annual Honors and Awards Banquet in the Grand Ballroom of the Lakeside Country Club. Our special guests will be your friends who have 50 and 25 years of membership in the SEG along with this year’s GSH Honorary and Life Members. Bring your spouse or guest and enjoy cocktails (cash bar) from 6:30 - 7:15 pm in the Pine Lake Room. Then at 7:15 pm, enjoy an elegant seated dinner and the music of Marshall Maxwell. SEG President Brian Russell, will give the Presidential Address and assist GSH President Bob Tatham in presenting the awards. The cost for the dinner is $30.00 per person, with pre-paid reservations necessary to accommodate the guarantee requirements of Lakeside Country Club. Make your check payable to the GSH and forward it by April 30th to Carmen M. Comis, c/o Paradigm Geophysical Corp., 1200 Smith Street, Ste. 2100, Houston, TX 77002. Please reference “Awards Banquet” on your check.

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Geophysical Society of Houston 10 Annual Honors and work, basin evaluation, maturation and conversion. His prior experience migration pathway studies. While included a position as Vice- president Awards Banquet working in Corpus Christi he began of Development for Advanced Data Member Bios teaching structural geology and Seismic Solutions in Houston. He spent eleven interpretation in the company schools years with Schlumberger Ltd, nine of Life membership in the GSH is conducted by Exxon Production which were in overseas management awarded from time to time to persons Research and continued to do so until assignments in Tokyo, , and who have performed exceptionally the mid 90’s. Following the formation finally, Paris, where he headed meritorious service to the Geophysical of Exxon Exploration Co. he began development of their reservoir Society of Houston. Honorary working Latin America, more modeling workstation. Prior to membership in the GSH is awarded specifically Mexico, Colombia, Schlumberger, he was a research from time to time to persons who have Venezuela and Brazil. Presently he is geophysicist with Digicon in Houston, made a distinguished contribution to involved in the Brazil Tender Round. where he was involved in the early the geophysical profession. Nominees Art has been involved with the local development of depth migration for Life or Honorary membership are geophysical societies and the SEG for technology and was the project nominated by the Nominating most of his career. He has served as manager for the extension of the Disco Committee and must have unaminous president of the Coastal Bend processing system to 3D. approval of the Board of Directors. Geophysical Society in Corpus Christi He has developed a number of Life and Honorary members have the and the Geophysical Society of innovative methods in velocity analysis same rights and privileges as Active Houston. He has been active with the and 3D processing, including a members but shall not pay dues. These SEG having served as arrangements simplified method for processing awards are normally presented at the chairman of several section meetings, marine vibratory source recordings, for Annual Honors and Awards Banquet. a national meeting in Houston, which he holds a patent (assigned to The names of previous awardees are technical program chairman for The Schlumberger). He also developed a listed in the annual GSH Directory. Rio 95 meeting in Brazil, and method for direct estimation of velocity membership chairman for two years. in the near surface, for which he Arthur H. Ross Jr. He is presently chairman of the SEG/ received the SEG’s Outstanding LIFE MEMBER GSH museum exhibit for the 1999 Presentation Award. He served as an Art graduated from Boston College SEG Annual meeting in Houston. Associate Editor of GEOPHYSICS, with a BS and from Virginia Tech with Art and his wife, Marion, have two and has served on a number of SEG an MS in Geology. Upon graduation children, Nina and Chris. He has been and GSH committees, including he commenced a 33 year career with very active with the Boy Scouts as an Continuing Education, Development Humble- now Exxon-and about to Eagle Scout and an adult leader as well and Production, and the GSH become Exxon-Mobil. He signed on as as active in their church as a teacher Workstation SIG. a hand on a shallow water - marsh and an usher. As an early member of the seismic crew in South Louisiana. It was Stanford Exploration Project (SEP), one of Humbles first CDP crews. After Phil Schultz directed by Jon Claerbout, Dr. Schultz’s working for a little over a year his HONORARY MEMBER thesis on velocity estimation using military contract came due and he Phil Schultz is a senior consulting “slant stacks” has the distinction of served for two years as a Captain in geophysicist with Spirit Energy 76, in having the last single-digit SEP volume the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Sugarland, Texas, a division of Unocal number. doing geology in Columbia and Corporation. He assists exploration Phil currently resides in Bellaire, Panama for a Sea Level Canal teams in the accurate positioning of TX, with his wife, Sandy, and their feasibility study. subsurface targets through refined three children. He enjoys a good game Returning from the service he velocity modeling and prestack depth of tennis. moved to Houston and began working imaging. Dr. Schultz is also giving the the Offshore Gulf of Mexico, East SEG’s second annual (1998-99) William H. “Bill” Gilchrist Coast, Scotian Shelf and Gulf of Alaska Distinguished Instructor Short Course LIFE MEMBER for the rounds of offshore lease sales. (DISC), entitled, “The Seismic Velocity William H. “Bill” Gilchrist began In 1976 Exxon reopened the district Model as an Interpretation Asset,” his career in our industry with a B.S. office in Corpus Christi and he moved which will be given in approximately in Petroleum Geology from Texas there with his young family. While in twenty locations worldwide over the Tech. His work experience includes Corpus he worked the Vicksburg trend year. Prior to joining Spirit Energy, he the acquistion, processing and and developed the concept of listric was Principal of Schultz and interpretation of seismic data with glide plain faulting and did extensive Associates, a consulting firm he several companies including Robert. H. regional work in the Cretaceous and founded in Houston to assist clients in Ray, Dresser Olympic, Calhoon Jurassic of South Texas. After ten the management of velocity modeling Consulting Co., and Exploration years, the district was closed and he for depth imaging and depth returned to Houston doing regional Awards Bios continued on page 11

Geophysical Society of Houston 11 Awards Bios continued from page 10 member of the SEG. Between 1938 Through Amoco’s Multicomponent and 1974, he found oil throughout the Seismic Team, Leon and his colleagues Processing. He was also a Houston American southwest, and the family have advanced the art and science of marketing representative for followed that search through thirty-five 4-Component Ocean Bottom Seismic Hampson-Russell Software. He is moves from Bakersfield to Tulsa to surveys, in gas-clouded and subsalt currently consulting and processing Odessa to Shreveport and to Houston. contexts. Following the recent merger, data as a Independent. For his The family was in Tyler when Leon he serves as Principal Geophysicist in distinguished contribution to the graduated from high school, and (with BP Amoco’s Upstream Technology geophysical profession Bill was the help of an SEG scholarship) went Group in Houston. awarded Honorary Membership in the west to attend the California Institute Leon was given the Reginald GSH in 1994. of Technology, then and now a center Fessenden Award in 1994 by the SEG, Throughout his career, Bill has of excellence in geophysics. In those and served as its Distinguished Lecturer always found time for others——his days, the real excitement was in plate in 1997. He and his colleagues family, church, associates, GSH and tectonics, planetary exploration, and received the EAGE’s Best Paper Award SEG —and we salute him for this. Bill the constitution of the deep interior, in 1997. He is currently Chair of the is now being honored with GSH Life not in hydrocarbon exploration. SEG Research Committee. Membership for performing So, Leon followed those ideas to exceptionally meritorious service to the Columbia University in . GSH. While his service to the GSH, There he met and immediately married ranging from Section Rep, Chairman Purnima “Pat” Gulati. In 1969, his of many committees to Treasurer and Ph.D. thesis dealt with seismic rock President, is noteworthy, he will be properties, and represented a new way remembered most for fostering the to physically interpret seismic data for education of geophysicists. His vision clues to the composition and crystal resulted in the first Minigeo in 1989 structure of the deep interior of the to allow small consultants and seismic earth. In a post-doc position at the processors to exhibit on the same Centre Nationale de la Recherche footing as majors. Another vision and GeoEvents Calendar Scientifique in Paris, another back at many long hours of work resulted in Caltech, a consulting position with Make reservations by e-mail at rescuing GSH artifacts from various IBM, a faculty position at the State [email protected] and include your locations and consolidating them at University of New York at Binghamton, member number (found on Bulletin Hayes Information Management. and a sabbatical appointment at the mailing label), or use the phone Museum displays at North Harris and Australian National University in reservation system at 713-917-0218. San Jacinto Colleges have been built Canberra, he used relativistic quantum by Gilcrest, together with Bill Swart. mechanics to improve and refine this They are now working on both a Reservation Codes physical interpretation. display to be placed at Texas A & M Use these codes to make voice In 1980, during a period of high and one at the upcoming SEG mail meeting reservations oil prices and rapid oil industry staff Convention in Houston this fall. The expansion, Leon joined Amoco’s GSH can take great pride that our Dinner Meeting ------(5-0-1) Research Center in Tulsa. Within two museum pieces are being viewed by so Environmental & Engineering weeks of his arrival, he discovered that many because of the work of Gilcrest Geologists ------(5-0-2) the mathematical tools and physical and Swart. Bill’s work with students International Explorationists ---(5-0-3) insight which he had acquired in his continues as he is a current instructor North American previous academic career uniquely for the course, “Computer Explorationists ------(5-0-4) equipped him to recognize, in Workstation Modeling - AVO,” at the Luncheon Meeting ------(5-0-5) exploration seismic data, the effects of Geoscience Technology Training Emerging Technology ------(5-0-6) azimuthal anisotropy, to interpret it, Center of North Harris College. and to deal with it. Amoco had an His SEG accomplishments include Dinner Prices early lead in developing these ideas being Special Events Vice-Chairman because of the extraordinary intellectual for the 1971 Annual Meeting and General Dinner Meeting ------$20 environment created at Amoco’s Arrangements Chairman for the 1986 Environmental & Engineering --- $16 Research Center by leaders like Mike Annual Meeting. International Explorationists ------$21 Waller, Gordon Greve, and Sven Treitel Luncheon Meeting ------$20 (all now retired). Leon Thomsen North American Following a change of mission, in HONORARY MEMBER Explorationists ------$20 1994, of the Amoco Technology Leon Thomsen comes by his Emerging Technology ------$20 Center Leon joined its worldwide interest in geophysics naturally: his Guests and Walk-ups ------$25 exploration department in Houston. father, Erik Thomsen, was an early No-shows are billed

Geophysical Society of Houston 12 Reservoir Geophysics continued from page 7 while the traveltimes between shots and subsurface imaging points are Update for Legislation computed by two-point ray tracing. It on Licensure can be applied to various types of data, such as converted waves, OBC, VSP, and Vertical Cable data. This talk will The Task Force and TAPG have met, negotiated focus on the application of the PPDM and have come up with some substitute language that on multi-component reflection data acquired over a physical model with a should be good for everybody. Committee Substitute dome filled with air and oil. In this case, House Bill 34 (CSHB34) will be substituted for HB34 the dome structure is imaged better by the S-wave migration than by the P- when HB34 is scheduled for a hearing. So far that wave migration. The air-water hasn’t happened. Everyone is working here to try to interface under the dome is imaged at get Rep. Ron Wilson to schedule CSHB34 for a the correct depth using mode- converted SPPS waves (see Figure hearing, but so far nothing has resulted. Please write a below), again better than the P-wave letter to Rep Wilson. An example letter (Letter1) is section. However, the oil-water posted on the web site (http://rampages.onramp.net/ interface is not imaged well. Since the PPDM is able to deliver accurate ~wkc/texasgeo.html) for your convenience. imaging amplitudes and reasonable frequency band, we are further investigating the differences between images using PP-, SS-, and converted- Thanks waves. In addition, we are analyzing Kevin Coleman the migrated sections to study the AVO anomalies at different solid/liquid interfaces.

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SEG 1999 Annual Meeting The Society of Exploration Geophysicists SEG 1999 International Exposition and 69th Annual Meeting October 31 - November 5 George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas The SEG Global Marketplace offers exhibitors opportunity and demonstrated success. By exhibiting at the SEG International Exposition, your company can tap the buying power of professionals from energy, mineral and mining industry firms from around the globe. Whether you are introducing a new product or service, or wish to expand your company internationally, this is the single source to meet your marketing needs.

The International Exposition and Sixty-Ninth Annual Meeting will be held in the city of Houston at the George R. Brown Convention Center October 31 to November 5, 1999. The Exposition will run Sunday October 31 until Wednesday, November 3, 1999.

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Golf Tournament and Dinner Geophysical Society of Houston

DATE: Monday, May 24, 1999 FORMAT: Four Man Florida Scramble

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