UH's "Waves of Change" featured at Offshore Technology Conference
The University of Houston's energy research and education initiatives
will be showcased at the 2008 Offshore Technology Conference at Reliant
Stadium from May 5-8, 2008. The exhibit, a concerted effort by the UH
College of Technology and UH Research Development, will promote the
university's Strategic Energy Alliance, ongoing energy research projects
and the CoT's petroleum technology initiative, which prepares leaders
for tomorrow's petroleum technology work force.
The Texas Learning and Computation Center has several affiliated research initiatives that support the world's growing energy needs. One of the most prominent research initiatives is the Mission-Oriented Seismic Research Program (M-OSRP).
M-OSRP is a research program and petroleum industry consortium, started in January 2001, at the University of Houston, to address seismic exploration and production problems whose solutions would have the most significant positive impact on our ability to locate and produce hydrocarbons.
The M-OSRP program is centered and administrated in the department of Physics. Its research and educational activity and support of graduate students span several departments including the departments of Physics and Geosciences.
A pressing challenge in petroleum seismology is the inability to locate and define hydrocarbon targets beneath complex media, e.g., salt, basalt, and karsted sediment. M-OSRP is pioneering and developing a direct response to this challenge. Objectives include the removal of free surface and internal multiples and depth imaging and inverting primaries, without the traditional need for subsurface information above the target, including a velocity model.
Several important projects provide the practical prerequisites that allow these new concepts and algorithms to reach their potential, e.g. the source wavelet, deghosting and data reconstruction. The program’s educational aim is the training and mentoring of future scientific and technical leaders.
M-OSRP has a portfolio of projects with short, medium, and longer term milestones and deliverables. The program produces reports and well-documented research prototype code. There is significant cooperative/ collaboration/ communication and interaction between M-OSRP and its petroleum industry sponsors; and, our eight world-class seismic expert adjunct professors, from our sponsor companies, play an important role in mentoring and guiding our graduate students.
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