The increasing demand for fossil fuels and the depleting of light crude oil in the next years
generates the need to exploit heavy and unconventional crude oils. To face this challenge …

Intrinsic wave attenuation at seismic frequencies is strongly dependent on rock permeability,
fluid properties, and saturation. However, in order to use attenuation as an attribute to extract …

Nanotechnology offers potentially disruptive methods to improve the mobility of heavy oil
through viscosity reduction. In this sense, the objective of this work is to probe changes in …

We consider a linear poroelastic material filled with a linear viscoelastic solvent like wet
heavy oils (oil as opposed to water or brines is wetting the surfaces of the pores). We extend …

Understanding the mechanisms of wave-induced fluid flow in the pore space combined with
attenuation and dispersion measurements may be used to estimate rock hydraulic …

With a high demand of hydrocarbon worldwide, conventional oil production is quickly
approaching its peak. Inevitably, heavy oil and bitumen (ultraheavy oil) will emerge as …

One standard way of generating a time-frequency response builds on the Fourier transform
(FT). We are going to develop concepts related to the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) …

Quality factor, Q, is a parameter that characterizes the energy dissipation during seismic
wave propagation. The reservoir pore is one of the main factors that affect the value of Q …

In part one of this paper, we introduced a novel method of measuring seismic attenuation
from prestack surface seismic data. This prestack Q-inversion (PSQI) employed methods to …

Ultrasonic shear wave reflectometry is widely used in process control to measure the
dynamic shear viscosities of Newtonian liquids. We apply the technique to study the …