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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Non peer reviewed)

Controlled, accelerated, weight drop seismic

Dave Monk A , Bill Mooney B and Jim Ross C

Dave Monk presented this extended abstract on Wednesday April 9th.

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A Apache Corporation 2000 Post Oak, Ste. 100 Houston, TX, 77092

B Polaris Explorer 4550, 35th Street SE Calgary, Alberta T2B 3S4 Canada

C Apache Energy LTD Level 3, St Georges Terrace Perth, WA 6000

The APPEA Journal 48(2) 476-476 https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ07066
Published: 2008

: Seismic

Dave Monk is the Director of Geophysics at Apache Corporation and is responsible for worldwide seismic activity including acquisition and processing in areas such as Argentina, Australia, Canada, Egypt, North Sea and the domestic USA. Having completed a PhD in physics, he worked on seismic crews in Nigeria for two years, and has subsequently been involved in seismic processing and acquisition around d the world. He has received best paper awards from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the Canadian SEG, and was recipient of the Hagedoorn Award from the European Association of Exploration Geophysics. In 2006 he was the first vice president of SEG.

mailto:dave.monk@apachecorp.com

Bill Mooney is the president of Polaris Explorer Ltd. With more than 35 years of experience in the geophysical seismic industry, he has extensive knowledge of North American and international seismic operations and project management. In 1984, he was VP Sales of Capilano Geophysical. In 1992, Bill founded Surface Search, specialising in high resolution ground penetrating and successfully marketed this technology to projects on four continents.

bill.mooney@polarisexplorer.com

Jim Ross graduated from the University of Manitoba, Canada, with a BSc in Geological Engineering in 1982. His graduation thesis was Microfractures in the Lac Du Bonnet Quartz Monzonite in southern Ontario Canada for Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. He then joined Dome Petroleum Ltd for six years and later he moved to Enron Oil and Gas Canada Ltd. From 1990–2000 he held chief geophysicist positions at Inverness Petroleum Ltd, Summit Resources Ltd and Petromet Resources Ltd before joining Apache Canada Ltd. He accepted his present position of manager of geophysics exploration with Apache Energy Ltd. in Australia in May 2006.

jim.ross@apachecorp.com


References

Monk, D.J., 2002—Seismic with a Thump: Presented at the CSEG meeting 2002.