Seismic Exploration of Hydrocarbons in Heterogeneous Reservoirs

Jing Ba was born in Hubei province of China in 1980. He received his doctoral degree from one of Chinese top universities, Tsinghua University in 2008. From 2008 to 2012, He worked as a geophysicist in the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development (RIPED), China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). He was employed as a senior geophysicist by CNPC in 2012 and also works as a geophysical consultant for Energy Prospecting Technology USA Inc. (USA) in part-time service. He is an associate editor of Applied Geophysics since 2011 and works as technical referee for more than 20 geophysical journals. He is a member of AGU, SEG and EAGE. With solid and strong researching and application experiences in China, Central Asia and South America, he has been dedicated to build vast cooperation relationships between oil companies, oil service companies and global top-rated universities and researching institutes. He is also always ready to be a bond of both academic and practical connections between world and Chinese exploration communities. Jing Ba published 2 books and more than 60 articles on geophysical journals and key conferences. His main research interests are wave propagation theory and hydrocarbon seismic detection methods. He leads several key research projects of wave propagation theory and industrial application. His theories and techniques have been successfully applied in the exploration areas of oil fields of China. He won several prizes for exploration research and has presented 11 China patents. José M. Carcione received the degree "Licenciado in Ciencias Físicas" from Buenos Aires University in 1978, the degree "Dottore in Fisica" from Milan University in 1984 and the PhD in Geophysics from Tel-Aviv University in 1987. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt scholarship for a position at the Geophysical Institute of Hamburg University, where he stayed from 1987 to 1989. Dr. Carcione received the 2007 Anstey award at the EAGE in London and the 2017 EAGE Conrad Schlumberger award in Paris. He has authored several books and has published more than 360 peer-reviewed articles.

• 1. Introduction.2. Poro-elasticity theories and experiments for reservoir rocks.3. Acoustics of partially saturated rocks: Experiments and theories.4. Fine layering and fractures. Effective anisotropy.5. Seismic wave models for fractured porous medium and applications.6. Elastic wave joint imaging for complex reservoirs.7. Quantitative seismic interpretation.8. Case studies: Reservoir characterization for lithology, porosity, fluid and fractures.

"...provides a rich resource of theory, experimental data, thoughtful and reflective methodological considerations, and numerical examples. It is recommended to anyone interested in seismic exploration of the heterogeneous reservoirs." --Pure and Applied Geophysics"... an impressive amount of detail on recent developments in several areas of this now rapidly evolving field of research...a timely and important reference work...will be well received by those doing research in the techniques covered by this volume." --The Leading Edge