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Dallas 2003

A summary of the Technical Program

2002–03 chairman, TLE Editorial Board

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

The 2003 SEG convention in Dallas had more than 6600 delegates with 929 booths representing 264 companies on the display floor. There were 649 papers presented in the technical program with 58 oral sessions, six special sessions, and 16 poster sessions. On Monday morning of the convention, approximately 1100 attended THE LEADING EDGE Forum IV titled "The Future of the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry" where six industry executives and leaders presented their insightful vision of the future of our industry. (See the special section beginning on page 153 for a complete transcript of their presentations.)

The attitude of the convention was more upbeat than the last two conventions with portions of the acquisition side of the business still somewhat depressed. Based on my observations and discussions with many colleagues, there did not appear to be any strikingly new technologies presented, but an obvious progression in visualization and computing power. It was evident on the convention floor that PCs were the dominant hardware platform, running in both Windows and Linux.

The following is a summary of the technical program, much like the summaries I have written for TLE for the last three SEG conventions. This synopsis is my biased opinion and does not include every paper but those I feel will be of interest to the majority of the TLE readership, especially geoscientists involved in interpretation.

	Case histories—interpretation

 
There were five sessions that specifically dealt with case histories and interpretation. One paper described a new algorithm that was designed to eliminate NMO stretch effects on stacked and prestack data. This process was applied to 3D data in an attempt to identify spatially complex gas- and water-filled channels in the Cretaceous of central Alberta. Numerous new prospects were identified by employing this technique.

From a study in the Laguna Madre-Tuxpan . . . [Full Text of this Article]