IMAGE 2022 Technical Program

ACQ: Acquisition and Survey Design

• Case Histories and Developments
• Land Seismic
• Marine Seismic
• Data Compression and Drone
• Seismic Acquisition Modeling
• Other relevant topics

ANI: Anistropy

• Theory and Processing
• Applications
• Kinematics and Velocities
• Other relevant topics
• AVOSI: Avo and Seismic Inversion
• Case Studies
• Algorithms and Methodology
• Workflows
• Other relevant topics

BG: Borehole Geophysics & Geomechanics

• Advances in Borehole Geophysical Methods
• Structural Imaging and Geosteering
• Geomechanics
• EM Methods
• Other relevant topics

CEMS: Carbonates, Evaporites and Mixed Systems

• Characterization of Conventional Carbonate Reservoirs
• Characterization of Unconventional Carbonate Reservoirs
• Jurassic/Cretaceous Carbonate Depositional Systems and Reservoirs
• Lacustrine and Pre-Salt Carbonates of the South Atlantic Margins and Beyond
• Lacustrine and Pre-Salt Carbonates: Reservoirs and Analogs
• Mixed Carbonate and Siliciclastic Depositional Systems and Reservoirs
• Pore Systems in Carbonate Reservoirs: From Nano- to Mega-Scale
• Modern Technologies Applied to Carbonate Systems: Geologic & Multi-disciplinary Methods
• Other relevant topics

CO2: Low Carbon Solutions/CCS

• Resource Characterization for Carbon Capture and Storage
• Hazard Prediction
• Integrated Case Studies for Carbon Storage and CO2 Sequestration
• Monitoring using Seismic Methods
• Environmental Impact
• Developments and Lessons Learned in Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage
• Other relevant topics

DAS: Distributed Acoustic Sensing

• Advances in Processing and Acquisition
• Distributed Sensing Signals from Modeling to Acquisition
• Monitoring in Unconventional Reservoirs
• Reservoir Characterization and Low-Frequency Distributed Acoustic Sensing
• Fiber Optics Applications for Completions Practices and Fracture Analysis
• Other relevant topics

EMRS: Em Exploration and Reservoir Surveillance

• Modeling and Imaging Algorithms
• Monitoring and Interpretation
• Reservoir and Fracture Monitoring
• Marine Application
• Inversion
• Other relevant topics

FWI: Full Waveform Inversion

• Case Studies
• Cloud, Machine Learning, and Computation
• Field Applications and Practical Issues
• Elastic Full-Waveform
• Inversion Algorithms
• Novel Approaches and Workflows
• Other relevant topics

GBMPS: Geochemistry, Basin Modeling and Petroleum Systems

• Application of Geochemistry to Reservoir Characterization, Reserves, and Recovery Factor
• Integration of Geochemistry with Petrophysics, Geology, and Engineering
• Practical Applications of Geochemistry for Field Development
• Integrated Workflows in Basin Modeling
• New Applications of Inorganic Geochemistry from Exploration to Development
• Seal Risk, Seal Capacity, and Column Height Prediction
• Role of Geochemistry in Renewable Energy
• Petroleum System Tectonics and Structural Styles: Lithosphere to Thin Section
• Other relevant topics

GM: Gravity and Magnetics

• Interpretation
• Inversion and Data Conditioning
• New Approaches
• Other relevant topic

HPG: History of Petroleum Geoscience

• Evolution of Major Technical Breakthroughs in Petroleum Exploration and Production
• Advances in Technologies for More Efficient Hydrocarbon Extraction
• Social Responsibility and Best Practices Adopted to Ensure Environmental Sustainability
• Case Studies in Exploration and Development of Hydrocarbon Resources Over the Past 100 Years

INT: Geological and Geophysical Interpretation

• Seismic Interpretation
• Machine Learning in Assisting Seismic Interpretation
• Seismic for reservoir Characterization
• Seismic Facies Analysis
• Other relevant topics

INTD: Deep Integration of Data and Disciplines

• Successes and Challenges of Data Integration for Multi-Disciplinary Workflows+A40
• Finding Hydrocarbons in Complex and Disparate Legacy Data
• Advances in Reservoir Modeling
• Data Management: Preserving Lineage, Quality and Quantity to Enable Data Science Workflows
• Open Source and Open Access - Challenges and Opportunities
• Impactful Cross-Functional Collaboration: Combining Earth Sciences and Engineering to Reap Rewards
• The Alignment of Computing with the Present and Future Technical Needs of the Industry: Where are the Pain Points?
• Innovative Petrophysical Techniques for Exploration and Exploitation
• Applications of Cloud Computing and Quantum Computing to Geoscience
• Ground Truth in Data Integration
• Multi-Physics Data Integration
• Other relevant topics

IPS: Induced and Passive Seismic

• Array Analyses, Sources, and Back Propagation
• Microseismicity, Distributed Acoustic Sensing, and Ambient Noise Analyses
• Source Mechanisms, Processing, and Noise Analyses
• Observations, Analysis, and Processes
• Induced Seismicity: Research and Applications to Reservoir Development
• Other relevant topics

MG: Mining

• Case Histories
• New Methods and Developments
• Other relevant topics

MLDA: Machine Learning and Advanced Data Analytics: Theory and Special Applications

• Interpretation and Properties Estimation
• Geophysics: Novel Concepts
• Modeling and Other Applications
• Properties, Processing, and Inversion
• Property Estimation and Model Building
• Machine Learning – Insight and Opportunity in Conventional and Resource Plays
• Visualization and Statistical Analysis - Discovering and Defining New Subsurface Trends
• Other relevant topics

NEF: New Energy Frontiers, Critical Minerals, Planetary Geoscience

• Coal, Coalbed Methane, Bitumen, and Heavy Oil
• Gas Hydrates and Hydrocarbons of the Future
• Geothermal Resource Assessment, Production, and Emerging Technologies
• Critical Minerals for the New Energy Mix: Exploration, Extraction, and Economics
• U, Th, He, H, and Other Energy Minerals
• Extraterrestrial Resources: Moon, Mars, and More
• Alternative Energy Sources
• Other relevant topics

NS: Near Surface

• Advanced Processing and Machine Learning
• Imaging
• Potential Methods and Interferometry
• Seismic for Near-Surface Alterations and Voids Detection
• Urban, Geotechnics, and Paleontology
• Water and Environmental Issues
• Other relevant topics

RC: Integrated Reservoir Characterization

• Integrated Attribute Case Studies
• Unconventional Methods
• Seismic Techniques in Geological Characterization
• Resolution, Attributes and Uncertainty
• Inversion and Integrated Studies
• Other relevant topics

RP: Rock Physics

• Applications
• Elasticity and Mechanical Properties
• Recent Developments
• Measurements
• Other relevant topics

SILIC: Siliciclastic Systems

• Reservoir Characterization of Siliciclastic Systems
• Source to Sink: Basin Analysis and Tectono-Stratigraphic Interactions
• Nonmarine Sedimentary Systems
• Shallow Marine Sedimentary Systems
• Deepwater Sedimentary Systems
• Controls on Reservoir Quality and Rock Property Trends
• Techniques to Determine Age, Provenance, and Paleoclimate
• New Advances in Mature Siliciclastic Basins and Fields
• Advances in Siliciclastic Systems Modeling and Prediction
• Sequence Stratigraphy
• Applied Paleontology and Biostratigraphy
• Styles of interaction between Siliciclastic and Carbonate Systems
• Other relevant topics

SM: Seismic Modeling

• Practical Applications and New Innovations
• Theory
• Acoustic, Visco-acoustic and VTI Modeling
• Other relevant topic

SPET: Seismic Processing: Emerging Technologies

• New Developments, Novel Application, and Case Studies
• New Methods and Applications
• Processing and Imaging
• Signal and Image Processing
• Other relevant topics

SPMI: Seismic Processing: Migration

• Enhancement of Imaging Algorithms and Applications
• Improvement of Beam Migration and Applications
• Least Squares Migration and Elastic Imaging
• Novel Imaging Methods and Applications
• Case Histories
• Other relevant topics

SPMNR: Seismic Processing: Multiples, Noise, and Regularization

• Land Noise Attenuation
• Machine-Learning Applications for Noise and Multiple Attenuation
• Noise Attenuation and Multiple Suppression
• Ocean-Bottom Node and Land Noise Attenuation
• Signal Processing for Coherent Noise Attenuation and Regularization
• Solutions to Challenges for Towed-Streamer Marine Processing
• Multicomponent seismic
• Other relevant topics

ST: Seismic Theory

• Theoretical Developments in Wave Propagation and Imaging
• Theoretical Developments in Imaging, Inversion and Wave Phenomena
• Other relevant topics

STGM: Structure, Tectonics, and Geomechanics

• Petroleum Geomechanics: Exploration and Abandonment
• Natural and Induced Fractures and Fluid Flow
• Modeling Deformation: Analogue, Geometric and Numerical Approaches
• Petroleum System Tectonics and Structural Styles: Lithosphere to Thin Section
• Salt-involved Systems: Deposition to Diapirism to Dissolution
• Structural Geology and Geomechanics in Unconventional Reservoir Development
• Virtual Field Studies: Videography and Drone
• Engineering and Structural Geology: Reservoir, Completions, and Production
• Integration of Geologic, Geomechanical and Geophysical Observations and Models
• Other relevant topics

STUD: AAPG, SEG, and SEPM Student Research

• AAPG Student Research Poster
• SEG Student Research Poster
• SEPM Student Research Poster

SUS: Sustainable Energy Development and Environmental Geoscience

• Lifecycle Linkages for a Sustainable Future: Sources, Sinks, and Economics
• Geoscience and Technology to Address Risk, Environmental Impact, and Mitigation
• Water Management: Source, Recycling, Disposal, and Valuation
• Geoscience and Technology for Development and EOR - The Greening of Brownfields
• Renewables and the Modern Geoscientist: Case Studies, Skill Sets, and Their Role in Energy
• Making Sustainability Work: Incentives, Economics, and Policy
• Applying Geophysics for Sustainable Development
• Other relevant topics

SVE: Seismic Velocity Estimation

• Case Histories
• Multiparameter Estimation and Anisotropy
• New Methodologies and Machine-Learning Approaches
• New Methods on Tomography
• Case Studies
• Other relevant topics

TL: Time Lapse

• Advances and Case Studies
• Improvements in Time Lapse Analysis
• Acquisition and Processing
• Inversion and Quantitative Interpretation
• Other relevant topics

UNCON: Unconventional Resources

• Unconventional Plays in North & South America
• Global and Emerging Unconventional Plays Evaluation
• Basin and Play Scale Characterization of Unconventional Reservoirs
• Reservoir Characterization and Development Strategies for Unconventional Fields
• Shale and Tight Reservoir Characterisation
• Shale and Tight Static Reservoir Modelling
• Pore-scale Techniques and Case Studies for Characterizing Mudrock
• Reservoirs Fluid Characterisation for Unconventionals
• Predicting and Mapping Fluid Phase Composition
• Geophysics, Geomechanics and Petrophysics for Shale and Tight Reservoirs
• Advances in Geophysics of Unconventionals
• Data Science and Advances in Analytical Techniques for Unconventional Resources
• Unconventional Laboratories Testing and Analysis
• Innovative solutions for Streamlined G&G Processes in Unconventional Evaluations
• Recycling the Know-How and Best Practices Between Unconventional and Conventional
• Future of Unconventionals
• Other relevant topics

VSP: Vertical Seismic Profile

• Borehole Seismic Measurements and Imaging
• Interpretation
• VSP/DAS Analysis and Imaging
• Other relevant topics

SGS: Special Global Session

• Middle East: Technological Innovations in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Characterization

SS: Special Sessions

• Recent Advances and the Road Ahead
• SEG/AGU Hydrogeophysics
• Electromagnetic and Gravity Methods in Carbon Storage (CCS) Monitoring
• The Role of Geoscientists without Borders (GWB) and Near-Surface Geophysics in Humanitarian Projects
• Reserves/Resources Evaluation and Management - The meeting place of geoscience, engineering and economics for business - its past, present and future
• Geophysics in Support of Characterization and Reclamation of Former Industrial Sites
• New Instrumentation
• A Career Advancing Near-Surface Geophysics from Rock Core to Watershed Scales: Recognizing the Achievements of Rosemary Knight
• SEG Research Workshop Papers on Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Exploration and Production
• SEPM Research Symposium