Oil and Gas Exploration

Said Gaci, Geophysics Engineer, Sonatrach Division Exploration, Algeria and Olga Hachay, Professor/Lead Scientist, Institute of Geophysics Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. Said Gaci received the Diploma in geophysical engineering and the Magister degree in petroleum economics and strategic management from the Algerian Petroleum Institute, Boumerdés, Algeria, in 1997 and 2004, respectively, and the Magister and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics from the University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria, in 2002 and 2011, respectively. He worked as a Senior Geophysicist with the Division Exploration, Sonatrach, Boumerdés, from 2004 to 2015. Currently, he is the head of Development and Valorization Department at the Algerian Petroleum Institute. His research interests include the application of signal processing and pattern recognition techniques in geosciences. Olga Hachay received the Ph.D. degree in geophysics from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, in 1979, and earned the title of Professor in geophysics from Moscow State University (Geological Faculty), Moscow, Russia, in 1994. Dr. Hachay is the leader scientific researcher of the Institute of geophysics Ural Branch of Russian Academy of sciences in the frame of the laboratory of borehole geophysics since 2008. She is involved in many research projects and published several papers in reputed journals.

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 HölderianRegularity, 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

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