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The Leading Edge; September 2001; v. 20; no. 9; p. 974-977; DOI: 10.1190/1.1487318
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Multicomponent technology: the players, problems, applications, and trends

Summary of the workshop sessions

James Gaiser and Nick Moldoveanu

WesternGeco, Houston, Texas, U.S.

Colin Macbeth

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K.

Reinaldo Michelena

Pdvsa, Caracas, Venezuela

Simon Spitz

CGG Americas, Houston, Texas, U.S.

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The 2000 SEG/EAGE Summer Research Workshop drew a large proportion of participants from contracting firms (Figure 1a). The affiliation of first authors was also largely from contractors (Figure 1b), with the remainder of participants and first authors being evenly distributed between oil companies and academia. If these statistics can be taken as a genuine cross-section of the geophysical community, they indicate that contractors have the most interest in multicomponent technology. It would also appear that they perform most of the research work. More than 40% of the papers presented in the workshop were related to processing, model building, and imaging with PS waves, thus indicating where the current emphasis on research and applications lies. Less emphasis was observed in other important areas of application for multicomponent technology, such as lithology, fluids, fracture characterization and time-lapse studies.


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  		Figure 1. Participants at the Boise workshop grouped by (a) professional affiliation, (b) affiliation of the first author of the papers presented, and (c) geographic provenance.

 
Interestingly, although the workshop took place in the U.S. heartland, participants from Europe, Canada, and Latin America combined exceeded the number of U.S. nationals in attendance (Figure 1c). Could this signify that interest in shear-wave technology is higher outside the United States? It would seem so, especially in view of the fact that the activity generated by the multicomponent acquisition in the United States to date has been less than in the rest of the world, particularly in Europe.

It is noteworthy that contractors kept that level of effort and interest during the 1999–2000 downturn, despite the fact that they do not consider the technology to be a commercial success. This may indicate that if the technology does not become profitable to contractors in the near future, more than half of the worldwide effort . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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