CURRENT RESEARCH IN EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS AT CURTIN

Contact: Associate Professor Bruce Hartley (B.Hartley@curtin.edu.au) or Student Information (info@geophy.curtin.edu.au)

The major areas of research are:

Rock Physics

• Rock Property Characterisation

• Modelling Elastic Properties of Fractured Reservoirs

• Simulation of Rock Properties from Microstructure

• Modelling of Properties of Rocks Saturated With Heavy Oil.

Seismic Processing

• Seismic Signatures of Patchy Saturation

• Velocity-Stress Relationships (for time-lapse seismic)

Anisotropy

• Effects of Shale/Sand Anisotropy on AVO-Based Reservoir Characterisation

• Fracture Orientation from Anisotropy Measurements

Physical Modelling

• Greenhouse Gas (CO2) Sensing

• Physical Modelling of Reservoirs

• Reservoir Imaging

• Reversed Time Acoustics and Virtual Source Imaging

• Tomography in Heterogeneous Media

Other Research Topics

• Sea-bed Electromagnetics

• Ore-Body Delineation

• Seismoelectric Methods

• Future Water Storage Options

• Geophysical Instrumentation