Very grateful to receive the SEG Cecil Green Enterprise Award. The Cecil Green Enterprise Award was established to recognize the importance of an individual enterprise to the economic vitality of our industry and shall be conferred from time to time on persons who have demonstrated courage, ingenuity, and achievement while risking their own resources and future in developing a product, service, organization, or activity which is recognized as a distinct and worthy contribution to the … [Read more...]
A Practical Guide to Advanced Depth Imaging
I gave this class part of the Geophysical Society of Houston annual Geophysics Academy. Advanced Depth Imaging Agenda Alexander Mihai Popovici, CEO, Z-Terra Inc. Velocity Model Building Main concepts and the evolution over time of migration velocity analysis (MVA) and tomography. Automatic PSTM velocity model computation methods . PSDM velocity model, tomography and evolving the velocity model from time to depth. Effect of rugosities on top structures for … [Read more...]
The State of our Industry Update
In November 2018, serving as First Vice President on the SEG Board I wrote a short article on the state of our industry looking at the evolution of the main service companies in our industry from 2012-2018 for the TLE President’s Page that appeared in the December 2018 issue, you can find a copy here: https://library.seg.org/doi/10.1190/tle37120872.1 or here: http://www.alexanderbrad.com/2018/11/the-state-of-our-industry/ I decided to revisit the numbers in 2024, in the November 2018 article … [Read more...]
The Curmudgeon’s Column: High-Tech Low-Tech
When I posted in LinkedIn a link to my Geophysical Society of Houston Technical Lunch in order to generate some publicity for my talk on Beam Tomography, one of the interesting comments from a colleague at a large service company was that Beam Technology is “a technology with many benefits that unfortunately is commonly regarded as old school / low tech.” I loved the comment because it allows me to talk about one of my favorite business concepts that I always look around to apply, and that … [Read more...]
The Curmudgeon’s Column: Diffraction Imaging
In the last post, I explained the title of the column comes from the book by Charles Murray The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead. With the Curmudgeon in mind, I have a few more comments to make about our life as Researchers, pushing the leading edge of technology in our industries. In small companies it helps to be a contrarian, to develop novel algorithms in areas overlooked by large research groups or the academic groups funded by them. One such technology that our group started working … [Read more...]