SEISMIC RESONANCE: WAVELET-FREE REFLECTIVITY RETRIEVAL VIA MODIFIED CEPSTRAL DECOMPOSITION

Spectral decomposition is a proven tool in seismic interpretation, aiding interpreters to highlight channels, map temporal bed thickness and other geological discontinuities. Once seismic data is spectrally decomposed, notch patterns in the amplitude spectra are indicative of the reservoir layer’s thickness and/or its interval velocity. Additional cepstral decomposition will allow direct extraction of bed time-thickness or arrival time under particular reflectivity series setup. We build on these observations to establish a more generalized workflow for reflectivity retrieval method without the need to understand the details of the wavelet, provided the starting seismic is stably phased via phase correction during processing. We demonstrate reflector time and its ‘apparent strength’ can be identified in a transformed seismic resonance domain resulted from a modified cepstrum analysis. In this domain, each reflector can be characterized from obvious linear hot spots. The timing and strength of those linear hot spots will reveal reflector times and scaled reflectivity coefficients. This new method is subsequently applied for thickness prediction of a target reservoir in a complex geological setting, with large thickness variations and weak impedance contrast with underlying lithology previously complicating identification of base-reservoir. In a deep-water field blind test, the sand thicknesses evaluated from this method are found to be close to true vertical thickness found in wells.

Effect of Lanthanum Substituted CoFe2-xLaxO4 on Change of Structure Parameter and Phase Formation

In this research, CoFe2-xLaxO4-based smart magnetic material has been developed which will be applied as a microwave absorbing material. This smart magnetic material is an artificial advanced material which has properties such as electromagnetic waves so that it is able to respond to the presence of microwaves through the mechanism of spin electron resonance and wall resonance domain. This smart magnetic material consists of a combination of rare earth metal elements (spin magnetic in the f orbital configuration) and transition metal elements (spin magnetic in the d orbital configuration) with a semi-hard magnetic structure. This semi-hard is a characteristic of magnetic properties which is between hard magnetic and soft magnetic properties. This characteristic of the semi-hard magnetic properties is needed so that this material has the ability to absorb microwaves. Substitution of lanthanum into cobalt ferrite CoFe2-xLaxO4 for La3+ (x = 0 - 0.8) has been synthesized using the solid reaction method through mechanical deformation techniques. The refinement result of X-ray diffraction shows that the sample contains 2 phases with increasing of x compositions. Particle morphology and elementary analysis were observed respectively by using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). It was concluded that the effect of La substitution on CoFe2-xLaxO4 resulted in changes in the crystal structure parameters and phase transformation as a function of composition.

Effect of wall inclination on the dynamic behaviour of an oscillating water column system

The Oscillating Water Column device (OWC) is one of the most used Wave Energy Converters (WECs) for wave energy harvesting. It consists essentially of two parts: the pneumatic chamber made of concrete and the bidirectional turbine linked to a generator group for energy production. In this study we are interested in the water motion oscillation inside the chamber resulting from the water level perturbation. This process is characterized by its own natural frequency and global damping. The vertical OWC chamber model is limited by the number of parameters defining the natural frequency and the global damping. The objective of this paper is to improve the performances obtained for the vertical OWC by considering an OWC with inclined sidewalls. For maximum efficiency, the device must operate in the resonance domain where the damping is low and the frequency of incoming waves matches with the natural frequency of the OWC. This will theoretically amplify the pneumatic energy to be converted to a mechanical one in the turbine.