Dr. Luc Ikelle

Bio

Luc T. Ikelle is Robert R. Berg Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics and director of the Center of Automated Seismic Processing at Texas A&M University. Earlier, he worked at Cray Research Inc. in Minneapolis, developing 3D seismic inversion algorithms for the CRAY Inc., Y-MP. From 1988 to 1997, he worked as a scientist at Schlumberger Geco-Prakla, Schlumberger Doll Research, and Schlumberger Cambridge Research. Ikelle earned a DEA (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) and a Ph.D. in geophysics and geochemistry from Paris 7 University in France. He received the Le Prix de These du CNRS in 1986 for his Ph.D. thesis. His research interests include looking at ways of automating seismic data processing for reservoir definition and monitoring. He is co-editor of Anisotropy 2000: Fractures, Converted Waves, and Case Studies and is a member of AGU, EAGE, SEG, and APS - member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Seismic Exploration, SEG Representative-at-large.

Research

• Finite difference modelling of seismic waveforms (including anisotropy and attenuation).
• AVO (Amplitude variations with offsets) and AVAZ (Amplitude variations with azimuths) formulation and analysis of OBC, VSP and streamer data Multiple (free-surface and internal) attenuation of OBC, Vertical Cable, VSP and streamer data.
• Seismic processing with anisotropy.
• Velocity analysis of OBC and streamer data.
• Survey designs for OBC, streamer and VSP data.
• Integration of EM data, reservoir flow data and seismic data.

Projects

Consortium on Automated Seismic Processing (CASP) Our objective is to demonstrate that an automated seismic data processing system is feasible and can extend the seismic resolution window. http://casp.systekproof.com/

Book Publications

• Ikelle, Luc T., and Lasse Amundsen. 2005, Introduction to Petroleum Seismology, SEG.

• Ikelle, Luc T., 2008, Coding and Decoding: Multiple Access Technology in Seismology and the Concept of Multishooting: Elsevier

Recent Publications

• Ikelle, L.T., and A., Gangi, A., 2007, Negative bending in seismic reflection associated with time-advanced and time-retarded fields: Geophysical Prospecting, 55, 57-69.
• Watts, A., and Ikelle, L.T., 2006, Linear demultiple solution based on the concept of bottom multiple generator (BMG) approximation: Some new results: Geophysical Prospective, 54, 492-497.
• Ikelle, L.T., 2006, A construct of internal multiples from surface data only: the concept of virtual seismic events: Geophysical Journal International, 164, 383-393.
• Ikelle, L., and Amundsen, L., 2005, Introduction to petroleum seismology, Soc. Expl. Geophys., Tulsa, OK.
• Ikelle, L.T., and Gangi, A.F., 2005, New Type of Reflections in Inhomogeneous Media Is Revealed by an Analysis of Scattering Diagrams of the Correlation-Type Representation Theorem: J. Seis. Expl., 14, 1--12.
• Ikelle, L.T., 2005, An analysis of 2D and 3D multiple attenuation for a canonical example: Geophysics, 70, A13--A28.
• Ikelle, L.T., 2005, An analysis of the 2D demultiple and the 3D demultiple for a 3D complex model: J. Seis. Expl., 13, 303--321.
• Complete List of Publications

Affiliations

• Consortium on Automated Seismic Processing (CASP)
• Norwegian Research & Technology Forum for the United States and Canada
• Special U.S. Government Employee (2006-2010)
• Member of Federal Advisory Committee on Ultra Deep Water E&P
• Founding member of Geoscientists Without Borders Committee

Links

• Robert R. Berg Lecture Series
• Society of Exploration Geophysicists
• Consortium on Automated Seismic Processing
• Petroleum Seismology 
• SEG Foundation
• Geoscientists Without Borders
• The Ultra-Deepwater Advisory Committee