Talk About Geophysics! TAG Webinar Series
EEGS’ Monthly Educational Webinar Series 
EEGS has developed an educational webinar series exploring topics ranging from scientific presentations to a deeper dive into noted authors’ published articles. The webinar series is intended to offer an informal setting and an interactive opportunity to address diverse geophysical topics. Students will be pleased to see that some scheduled topics will focus on career paths, working with advisors, etc. and small business owners will benefit from sessions ranging from business technical tools to client management.
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We are taking a break to accommodate many of you who are in the field or on vacation.
June TAG Webinar
"How can technology speed up the reconstruction of Ukraine during and after the war?"
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Title: How can technology speed up the reconstruction of Ukraine during and after the war?
Speaker: Bart Gruyaert, Project Director Ukraine at NEO-ECO
Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Time: 3:00 p.m. PT; 4:00 p.m. MT; 5:00 p.m. CT and 6:00 p.m. ET
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 How can technology speed up the reconstruction of Ukraine during and after the war? This presentation will answer this question and will cover debris management, debris clearance and land clearance as well as topics such as AI and sensor technology.
Mr. Gruyaert serves as Project Director Ukraine at NEO-ECO NEO ECO, Hallennes-lez-Haubourdin, Hauts-de-France. His work experience also includes CEO of Altifort, Paris, Île-de-France. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Ehsal, BrusselsEhsal, Brussels and Universiteit GentUniversiteit Gent (1995 – 2000) Naval engineering.
May Webinar
"GEOPHYSICS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING PROBLEM ORPHAN OIL & GAS WELLS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND FOR PLANNING RE-ENTRY, REMEDIATION, RE-PURPOSING, OR PLUGGING"
May 10, 2023
Title: GEOPHYSICS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING PROBLEM ORPHAN OIL & GAS WELLS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND FOR PLANNING RE-ENTRY, REMEDIATION, RE-PURPOSING, OR PLUGGING
Speaker: Geoff Pettifer, GHD Perth, Western Australia
Date: Wednesday, May 10
Time: 3:00 p.m. PT; 4:00 p.m. MT; 5:00 p.m. CT and 6:00 p.m. ET
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 As part of the US Federal Infrastructure / Climate Change management funding ~$4.7 billion will be spent through to September 2030, by between 26 to 38 States, on finding, investigating, assessing and documenting condition, risk-ranking, plugging and legal aspects of Oil & Gas (O&G) Orphan, Abandoned, and Idle Wells. These wells are invariably in poor condition and/or have been not properly plugged, often leaking hydrocarbons to the atmosphere and environment and/or polluting shallow beneficial aquifer systems and salinizing soils with leakage of deeper saline groundwaters. In some cases these wells pose leakage risks, to re-purposing the depleted O&G reservoirs for other purposes such as gas storage or carbon sequestration. Orphan wells are in a variety of terrains (forested, croplands, deserts, mountains), often with their surface evidence hidden or destroyed.
This TAG webinar presentation, adapted from a presentation first given at the AAPG event, briefly lists the possible methods to locate wells, but with examples, instead focuses more upon on how once a well location has been identified, geophysics may be used to possibly help:
(1) determine if the well is a problem oil and gas well (or another type of well);
(2) if needed, more precisely determine the location of the well for re-entry planning purposes;
(3) determine any evidence of the nature of the surface completion of the well;
(4) determine if there are surface manifestations of leakage affecting shallow groundwater and soils;
(5) determine by geophysical logging, as much as is practicable with the plugging methods that might be in place, what is the casing condition and where casing leakage may be a problem for the groundwater system or not and whether the well can be safely re-purposed or not for other applications; and
(6) assist design of a plugging program to best stop any leakage problems that the well has and to give comfort to the regulator that all leakage has been identified and fixed.
Geoff Pettifer is a Technical Director – Hydrogeology and Geophysics in GHD - with 50+ years specialized experience in the practical application of geophysics to groundwater, geotechnical, mining, environmental, bore geophysical logging and condition assessment, resource assessment, salinity, and soil mapping projects. He has additional varied experience and training in irrigation review and management, water resources, remote sensing, image processing, information management, GIS and database, flood mapping, asset management, catchment management and community engagement. Geoff also has extensive project management experience on groundwater, salinity, major infrastructure and international development assistance projects. His consulting interests include sustainable groundwater usage, sustainable irrigation, sustainable mining and mine development, geotechnical, environmental investigations and international development assistance and community / stakeholder engagement. Geoff works and consults, part-time, throughout Australia and overseas, including completed assignments in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, China, Pakistan, Russia, Canada, US, Philippines and Africa. He is active in SEG NSTS and EEGS in working to promote near-surface geophysics benefits and collaborations.
2023 TAG Webinar Presentations History
March Webinar
March 8, 2023
Title: Active and passive underwater surface wave methods
Speaker: Dr. Koichi Hayashi, Senior Technical Manager at OYO Corporation and Geometrics, Inc.
This presentation introduced the fundamental theory of underwater surface waves and application example of active and passive surface wave methods at the bottom of lake, river and ocean for various engineering and environmental investigations. An explosive source or vertical force at the bottom of water generates seismic wave that horizontally propagates along the bottom of water. The waves are called Stoneley waves and correspond to generalized Rayleigh waves. Low frequency Stoneley waves propagating at the bottom of water propagate with approximately P-wave velocity of water (1500 m/sec) where S-wave velocity of solid layer is higher than P-wave velocity of the water. In contrast, it propagates approximately S-wave velocity where S-wave velocity of solid layer is lower than P-wave velocity of the water and enables us to estimate S-wave velocity of the solid layer by measuring propagation velocity of the Stoneley waves like surface wave methods performed on the ground surface.
Dr. Koichi Hayashi is presently a Senior Technical Manager at OYO Corporation and Geometrics, Inc. in San Jose, California. Over the past 30 years, he has worked as a research geophysicist focusing on providing better tools and algorithms for near-surface geophysical methods. He earned a B.S. degree in Earth Sciences from Chiba University in Japan, a M.S. degree in Earth Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Earth Resources Engineering from Kyoto University in Japan. His main research areas are seismic refraction, active and passive surface waves, finite-difference seismic modeling, and traveltime inversion. He is the author of the SeisImager data analysis suite of programs and has incorporated many of his theoretical developments into the software, making SeisImager one of the premier surface wave, refraction, and downhole data processing packages available today. He regularly presents papers at the major meetings, publishes in journals of EEGS, SEG, SEGJ, and SSA, and serves on scientific commissions. In 2014, he was selected as the SEG Near-Surface Honorary Lecturer, with his talk entitled “Integrated Geophysical Methods Applied to Geotechnical and Geohazard Engineering: From Qualitative to Quantitative Analysis and Interpretation”. Most recently, he was a contributing author to the textbook entitled “Seismic Ambient Noise”.
2022 TAG Webinar Presentations History
November Webinar
November 9, 2022
Title: Continuous Marine Seismic Refraction
Speaker: Justin Anning, Surrich Hydrographics
Seismic reflection and refraction surveys provide valuable sub-surface information with respect to coastal geotechnical projects. The seismic reflection method maps layers and interfaces, while the refraction method maps compressional rock velocities.
Single channel seismic reflection is referred to as Sub Bottom Profiling (SBP) and the examples shown herein were performed using a boomer seismic source. Utilizing the same survey vessel and positioning system used for the SBP survey, seismic refraction surveys can be performed in a mobile towed configuration, using a small volume airgun and multichannel streamer. We refer to this methodology as Continuous Marine Seismic Refraction (CMSR).
Examples are presented demonstrating the advantages of acquiring both SBP boomer and CMSR.
Justin has been a co-owner of Australian company Surrich Hydrographics since 2012, where they concentrate on coastal hydrographic and geophysical projects. Justin leads the geophysical projects while business partner Andrew Richardson leads the hydrographic survey projects.
Justin has a BSc in Geophysics from Curtin University, Western Australia in 1993. He has been predominantly self-employed. Previous experiences in the industry are beginning to fade from memory however he started on land, experiencing the typically diverse applications that come with shallow engineering geophysics and exploration work. His fondest memories are the groundwater, salinity mapping and diamond exploration jobs he performed during the first decade of his career before the mining boom made things totally hectic, with the GFC in 2008 being a welcome relief.
October Webinar
October 12, 2022
Title: 4D Electrical Resistivity Imaging of Stress-Induced Changes in Secondary Porosity During High Pressure Injections into a Deep Crystalline Rock Formation
Speaker: Tim Johnson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 12
Time: 3:00 p.m. PT; 4:00 p.m. MT; 5:00 p.m. CT and 6:00 p.m. ET
Fluid flow through fractured rock systems is governed in large part by the distribution, interconnectivity, and size of fracture apertures. In-situ stress isone of the primary factors controlling fracture aperture, and one that is altered significantly during high-pressure fluid injections or extractions. Interactions between stress, pore pressure, aperture, and fluid flow can result in complex and evolving poroelastic behavior with significant implications regarding the predictability and risk involved with developing and managing deep subsurface reservoirs (geothermal, fossil energy, and geologic carbon sequestration).
In saturated rocks, bulk electrical conductivity is sensitive to both primary and secondary porosity (i.e. matrix porosity and fractures), and therefore to fracture aperture size and distribution. We demonstrate the use of time-lapse 3D electrical resistivity tomography for remotely monitoring stress induced changes in aperture distribution during high pressure injections into a dense fractured rock system at a scale of tens of meters. Results reveal a complex and continuously evolving stress field involving aperture dilations in the natural fracture system and aperture contractions in adjacent zones of shadow stress. Results provide information about the spatiotemporal changes in the system behavior and point to the potential of electrical imaging for autonomously and remotely monitoring evolving stress conditions by proxy through changes in bulk electrical conductivity.
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