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Introduction to "Recent Advances in Shear Wave Technology for Reservoir Characterization

A New Beginning?" The 2000 SEG/EAGE Summer Research Workshop

Heriot-Watt University

Reinaldo Michelena

Petróleos de Venezuela SA

Simon Spitz

CGG Americas

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Ninety-nine professionals, the majority of whom have significant experience with shear waves, gathered in October 2000 at the SEG-EAGE Summer Research Workshop in Boise, Idaho, U.S. The 63 papers presented raised many hotly debated technical issues. More general issues also emerged during the discussions: What is the application domain of a technology heralded as one that will profoundly influence the future of our profession? Why has multicomponent technology not been the commercial success we were hoping for, despite the heavy investments? What is needed to make this technology more beneficial to interpreters and decision makers? And many more.

The history of the year 2000 SEG-EAGE Summer Research Workshop is worth telling. It began in a modest way, when Geco-Prakla decided to release two 2-D multicomponent data sets (one land, the other marine) for a public benchmarking of the methodology. That was . . . [Full Text of this Article]