Oil and gas exploration methods and application

Content: Contributor List vPreface  vii Acknowledgments  xi 1 Experience of Regional Prediction of Hydrocarbon Deposits Prospecting in the Vicinity of Ural Oil and Gas Provinces 1Vladimir S Druzhinin, Vjacheslav Osipov, and Nikolay Nachapkin 2 Wavelet?-Based Multifractal Analysis of Landsat 8 Images: Applications to Mineral Deposits and Shale Gas Reservoirs 19Orietta Nicolis 3 Seismic Signal Denoising Using Empirical Mode Decomposition 47Said Gaci 4 A Lithological Segmentation Technique From Well Logs Using the Hilbert?-Huang Transform 61Said Gaci 5 Seismic UNIX and GNU Octave for VSP Data Processing and Interpretation 73Mohammed Farfour and Wang Jung Yoon 6 Seismic Spectral Decomposition Applications in Seismic: A Review and Application 93Mohammed Farfour, Jalal Ferahtia, Noureddine Djarfour, and Mohand Amokrane Aitouch 7 Electromagnetic Geophysical Research with Controlled Source 115Olga Hachay and Oleg Khachay 8 Reflection of Processes of Nonequilibrium Two?-Phase Filtration in Oil?-Saturated Hierarchic Medium by Data of Active Wave Geophysical Monitoring 135Olga Hachay and Andrey Khachay 9 Defining the Surface of the Fluid?-Saturated Porous Inclusion in the Hierarchic Layered?-Block Medium According to Electromagnetic Monitoring Data 143Olga Hachay and Andrey Khachay 10 Hardware and Software System for Research in Oil and Gas Boreholes 153Yury G Astrakhantsev, Nadezhda A Beloglazova, and Eugenia Bazhenova 11 Application of Borehole Magnetometry to Study Oil and Gas Deposits in Western Siberia 167Galina V Igolkina 12 A Novel Model to Estimate S?-Wave Velocity Integrating Holderian Regularity, Empirical Mode Decomposition, and Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks 181Said Gaci 13 Geophysical Method of Defining Residual and Active Rock Stresses 201Kushbakali Tazhibaev and Daniyar Tazhibaev 14 On the Possibility of Using Mobile and Direct?-Prospecting Geophysical Technologies to Assess the Prospects of Oil?-Gas Content in Deep Horizons 209Sergey Levashov, Nikolay Yakymchuk, and Ignat Korchagin 15 Anomalies of Low Density in the Crystalline Crust of Thermobaric Origin: A New Insight into Migration and Localization of Hydrocarbons 237Valery Korchin 16 The Use of Aeromagnetics and Micromagnetics to Identify Potential Areas of Hydrocarbons in the Midcontinental United States: Caveats and Pitfalls 259Steven A Tedesco Index 277