Oil and Gas Exploration

Contributor List v
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
1 Experience of Regional Prediction of Hydrocarbon Deposits Prospecting in the Vicinity of Ural Oil and Gas Provinces 1
Vladimir S Druzhinin, Vjacheslav Osipov, and Nikolay Nachapkin
2 Wavelet?-Based Multifractal Analysis of Landsat 8 Images: Applications to Mineral Deposits and Shale Gas Reservoirs 19
Orietta Nicolis
3 Seismic Signal Denoising Using Empirical Mode Decomposition 47
Said Gaci
4 A Lithological Segmentation Technique From Well Logs Using the Hilbert?-Huang Transform 61
Said Gaci
5 Seismic UNIX and GNU Octave for VSP Data Processing and Interpretation 73
Mohammed Farfour and Wang Jung Yoon
6 Seismic Spectral Decomposition Applications in Seismic: A Review and Application 93
Mohammed Farfour, Jalal Ferahtia, Noureddine Djarfour, and Mohand Amokrane Aitouch
7 Electromagnetic Geophysical Research with Controlled Source 115
Olga Hachay and Oleg Khachay
8 Reflection of Processes of Nonequilibrium Two?-Phase Filtration in Oil?-Saturated Hierarchic Medium by Data of Active Wave Geophysical Monitoring 135
Olga Hachay and Andrey Khachay
9 Defining the Surface of the Fluid?-Saturated Porous Inclusion in the Hierarchic Layered?-Block Medium According to Electromagnetic Monitoring Data 143
Olga Hachay and Andrey Khachay
10 Hardware and Software System for Research in Oil and Gas Boreholes 153
Yury G Astrakhantsev, Nadezhda A Beloglazova, and Eugenia Bazhenova
11 Application of Borehole Magnetometry to Study Oil and Gas Deposits in Western Siberia 167
Galina V Igolkina
12 A Novel Model to Estimate S?-Wave Velocity Integrating Hölderian Regularity, Empirical Mode Decomposition, and Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks 181
Said Gaci
13 Geophysical Method of Defining Residual and Active Rock Stresses 201
Kushbakali Tazhibaev and Daniyar Tazhibaev
14 On the Possibility of Using Mobile and Direct?-Prospecting Geophysical Technologies to Assess the Prospects of Oil?-Gas Content in Deep Horizons 209
Sergey Levashov, Nikolay Yakymchuk, and Ignat Korchagin
15 Anomalies of Low Density in the Crystalline Crust of Thermobaric Origin: A New Insight into Migration and Localization of Hydrocarbons 237
Valery Korchin
16 The Use of Aeromagnetics and Micromagnetics to Identify Potential Areas of Hydrocarbons in the Midcontinental United States: Caveats and Pitfalls 259
Steven A Tedesco
Index 277