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  1. Postmigration seismic data conditioning workflow on a merged data set

    Article • Interpretation, April 2025, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Heather Bedle

  2. Detection of small-offset faults in seismic data: An application for carbon capture and storage

    Article • The Leading Edge, April 2025, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Heather Bedle, Kurt J Marfurt

  3. Seismic Attributes and Fault-Fold Systems: A Case Study of Quantitative Analysis of Coal Seams in the Southern Qinshui Basin, China

    Article • Interpretation, February 2025, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  4. Understanding uncertainty in deepwater channel seismic facies classification applying random forest on outcrop-constrained 3D models and synthetic seismic data

    Article • The Leading Edge, January 2025, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Karelia La Marca, Kurt J Marfurt

  5. Characterization of seismic-scale petrofacies variability in the Arbuckle Group using supervised machine learning: Wellington Field, Kansas

    Article • Interpretation, May 2024, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Heather Bedle, Abidin Caf

  6. UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT IN UNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING METHODS FOR DEEPWATER CHANNEL SEISMIC FACIES USING OUTCROP-DERIVED 3D MODELS AND SYNTHETIC SEISMIC DATA

    Article • Interpretation, April 2024, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Karelia La Marca, Kurt J Marfurt, Heather Bedle

  7. Seismic reservoir characterization of the Gassum Formation in the Stenlille aquifer gas storage, Denmark — Part 2: Unsupervised classification

    Article • Interpretation, September 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Satinder Chopra, Kenneth Bredesen, Kurt J Marfurt

  8. Seismic reservoir characterization of the Gassum Formation in the Stenlille aquifer gas storage, Denmark — Part 1

    Article • Interpretation, September 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Satinder Chopra, Kenneth Bredesen, Kurt J Marfurt

  9. Quantifying the sensitivity of seismic facies classification to seismic attribute selection: An explainable machine-learning study

    Article • Interpretation, May 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Heather Bedle

  10. Fault enhancement comparison among coherence enhancement, probabilistic neural networks, and convolutional neural networks in the Taranaki Basin area, New Zealand

    Article • Interpretation, May 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Heather Bedle

  11. Fault enhancement using probabilistic neural networks and Laplacian of a Gaussian filter: A case study in the Great South Basin, New Zealand

    Article • Interpretation, February 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Heather Bedle

  12. Seismic characterization of a Triassic-Jurassic deep geothermal sandstone reservoir, onshore Denmark, using unsupervised machine learning techniques

    Article • Interpretation, September 2021, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Satinder Chopra, Kenneth Bredesen, Kurt J Marfurt

  13. Improving porosity and gamma ray prediction for the Middle Jurassic Hugin sandstones in southern Norwegian North Sea with the application of deep neural networks

    Article • Interpretation, September 2021, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Satinder Chopra, Kurt J Marfurt

  14. Attribute-assisted characterization of basement faulting and the associated sedimentary sequence deformation in north-central Oklahoma

    Article • Interpretation, October 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  15. Effect of main frequencies on characterizing fault damage zones using forward modeling and attribute of variance

    Article • Interpretation, October 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  16. Improving fault delineation using maximum entropy multispectral coherence

    Article • Interpretation, October 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  17. A method to compensate for migration stretch to improve the resolution of amplitude variation with offset, S-impedance (ZS), and density (ρ)

    Article • Interpretation, August 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  18. Adopting multispectral dip components for coherence and curvature attribute computations

    Article • The Leading Edge, August 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  19. Azimuthal anisotropy analysis applied to naturally fractured unconventional reservoirs: A Barnett Shale example

    Article • Interpretation, June 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  20. Characterizing damage-zones of normal faults using seismic variance in the Wangxuzhuang Oilfield, China

    Article • Interpretation, June 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, 黄 晓娣

  21. Making Interpretation more diverse

    Article • Interpretation, April 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  22. Multispectral coherence: Which decomposition should we use?

    Article • Interpretation, February 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Tao Zhao, Ying Hu, Kurt J Marfurt, Dr. Sumit Verma

  23. Seismic attribute selection for machine-learning-based facies analysis

    Article • Geophysics, January 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Bo Zhang

  24. Characterization of Arbuckle-basement wastewater disposal system, Payne County, Northern Oklahoma

    Article • Interpretation, October 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Maulin Gogri

  25. Attribute selection in seismic facies classification: Application to a Gulf of Mexico 3D seismic survey and the Barnett Shale

    Article • Interpretation, August 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  26. Convolutional neural networks as aid in core lithofacies classification

    Article • Interpretation, May 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  27. PITFALLS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DATA CONDITIONING, ATTRIBUTE ANALYSIS, AND SELF-ORGANIZING MAP TO 2D DATA: APPLICATION TO THE EXMOUTH PLATEAU, NORTH CARNARVON BASIN, AUSTRALIA

    Article • Interpretation, May 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  28. Using machine learning as an aid to seismic geomorphology, which attributes are the best input?

    Article • Interpretation, April 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  29. Independent component analysis for reservoir geomorphology and unsupervised seismic facies classification in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

    Article • Interpretation, April 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  30. Introduction to special section: Seismic geometric attributes

    Article • Interpretation, April 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr xinming Wu, Kurt J Marfurt

  31. Multispectral, multiazimuth, and multioffset coherence attribute applications

    Article • Interpretation, March 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  32. Geometric seismic attribute estimation using data-adaptive windows

    Article • Interpretation, March 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Bo Zhang

  33. Why publish papers

    Article • Interpretation, January 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Donald Herron, Dr Hongliu Zeng

  34. Image processing of seismic attributes for automatic fault extraction

    Article • Geophysics, January 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Ying Hu

  35. Introduction to special section: Shale oil and gas enrichment mechanisms and effective development: Concepts, methodologies, and case studies

    Article • Interpretation, November 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  36. Strategies on obtaining permission to publish

    Article • Interpretation, November 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Oswaldo Davogustto, Donald Herron

  37. In-context interpretation: Avoiding pitfalls in misidentification of igneous bodies in seismic data

    Article • Interpretation, August 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  38. Coherence attribute applications on seismic data in various guises — Part 2

    Article • Interpretation, June 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  39. Coherence attribute applications on seismic data in various guises — Part 1

    Article • Interpretation, June 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  40. Attribute-assisted footprint suppression using a 2D continuous wavelet transform

    Article • Interpretation, April 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  41. Volumetric aberrancy to map subtle faults and flexures

    Article • Interpretation, March 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Xuan Qi

  42. Seismic attribute selection for unsupervised seismic facies analysis using user-guided data-adaptive weights

    Article • Geophysics, March 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Tao Zhao, Kurt J Marfurt, Prof. Fangyu Li

  43. Multispectral coherence

    Article • Interpretation, February 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Prof. Fangyu Li

  44. Roles and responsibilities of the special-section editor

    Article • Interpretation, November 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Dr Hongliu Zeng

  45. Tomographic velocity analysis and wave-equation depth migration in an overthrust terrain: A case study from the Tuha Basin, China

    Article • Interpretation, November 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  46. Multiazimuth coherence

    Article • Geophysics, November 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  47. Effect of volcanic bodies on hydrocarbon reservoirs in the northeastern part of the Chicontepec Foredeep, Mexico

    Article • Interpretation, August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  48. The value of constrained conjugate-gradient least-squares migration in seismic inversion: Application to a fractured-basement play, Texas Panhandle

    Article • Interpretation, August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  49. Seismic expression and geomorphology of igneous bodies: A Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, case study

    Article • Interpretation, August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  50. Seismic reprocessing and interpretation of a fractured-basement play: Texas Panhandle

    Article • Interpretation, August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  51. Introduction to special section: Least-squares migration

    Article • Interpretation, August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  52. Qualities of a good reviewer

    Article • Interpretation, August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Hongliu Zeng, Donald Herron, Kurt J Marfurt, chaoli lan, Osareni Ogiesoba

  53. A workflow to skeletonize faults and stratigraphic features

    Article • Geophysics, July 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  54. Volumetric fault image enhancement — Some applications

    Article • Interpretation, May 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  55. Constraining self-organizing map facies analysis with stratigraphy: An approach to increase the credibility in automatic seismic facies classification

    Article • Interpretation, May 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Tao Zhao

  56. Fault damage zone at subsurface: A case study using 3D seismic attributes and a clay model analog for the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

    Article • Interpretation, May 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  57. Depositional sequence characterization based on seismic variational mode decomposition

    Article • Interpretation, May 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, RUI ZHAI, Bo Zhang

  58. Helping authors advance the discovery and usage of their work

    Article • Interpretation, May 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Mr. Ted Bakamjian, Kurt J Marfurt, Natalie Blythe, Jennifer Cobb

  59. If the word “sizemik” has a red line under it, maybe you should run spell check

    Article • Interpretation, January 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  60. Estimation of total organic carbon and brittleness volume

    Article • Interpretation, August 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Tao Zhao, Dr. Sumit Verma

  61. Seismic-petrophysical reservoir characterization in the northern part of the Chicontepec Basin, Mexico

    Article • Interpretation, August 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Dr. Sumit Verma

  62. Pitfalls in seismic processing: An application of seismic modeling to investigate acquisition footprint

    Article • Interpretation, May 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Dr. Sumit Verma

  63. Noise suppression of time-migrated gathers using prestack structure-oriented filtering

    Article • Interpretation, May 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Bo Zhang

  64. Data conditioning of legacy seismic using migration-driven 5D interpolation

    Article • Interpretation, May 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Dr. Sumit Verma

  65. Quantitative seismic geomorphology, south Texas, United States

    Article • AAPG Bulletin, April 2016, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

    Kurt J Marfurt, Hamed Elmowafy

  66. Vector correlation of amplitude variation with azimuth and curvature in a post-hydraulic-fracture Barnett Shale survey

    Article • Interpretation, February 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Dr. Sumit Verma, Bo Zhang

  67. Seismic attenuation attributes with applications on conventional and unconventional reservoirs

    Article • Interpretation, February 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Tao Zhao, Dr. Sumit Verma

  68. Semisupervised multiattribute seismic facies analysis

    Article • Interpretation, February 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Tao Zhao

  69. Characterizing a turbidite system in Canterbury Basin, New Zealand, using seismic attributes and distance-preserving self-organizing maps

    Article • Interpretation, February 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Tao Zhao

  70. Introduction to special section: Seismic attributes

    Article • Interpretation, February 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Oswaldo Davogustto

  71. Display and enhancement of volumetric fault images

    Article • Interpretation, February 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  72. Highly aliased ground-roll suppression using a 3D multiwindow Karhunen-Loève filter: Application to a legacy Mississippi Lime survey

    Article • Geophysics, January 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Dr. Sumit Verma

  73. A comparison of classification techniques for seismic facies recognition

    Article • Interpretation, November 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Tao Zhao

  74. Identification of brittle/ductile areas in unconventional reservoirs using seismic and microseismic data: Application to the Barnett Shale

    Article • Interpretation, November 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Dr. Roderick Perez Altamar

  75. Improving seismic resolution of prestack time-migrated data

    Article • Interpretation, November 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  76. Introduction to special section: Pattern recognition and machine learning

    Article • Interpretation, November 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  77. Recent progress in analysis of seismically thin beds

    Article • Interpretation, August 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Dr Hongliu Zeng

  78. Value of nonstationary wavelet spectral balancing in mapping a faulted fluvial system, Bohai Gulf, China

    Article • Interpretation, August 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  79. Introduction to special section: Thin beds

    Article • Interpretation, August 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Sergey Fomel, Gregory Partyka, Osareni Ogiesoba

  80. Brittleness evaluation of resource plays by integrating petrophysical and seismic data analysis

    Article • Interpretation, May 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Tao Zhao

  81. Introduction to Seismic chronostratigraphy

    Article • Interpretation, May 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Dr Hongliu Zeng, Nanne Hemstra, Octavian Catuneanu

  82. Pitfalls and limitations in seismic attribute interpretation of tectonic features

    Article • Interpretation, February 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  83. Techniques and best practices in multiattribute display

    Article • Interpretation, February 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  84. Improving the quality of prestack inversion by prestack data conditioning

    Article • Interpretation, February 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  85. Horizon-based semiautomated nonhyperbolic velocity analysis

    Article • Geophysics, November 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Tao Zhao

  86. Mineralogy-based brittleness prediction from surface seismic data: Application to the Barnett Shale

    Article • Interpretation, November 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Dr. Roderick Perez Altamar

  87. Attribute expression of fault-controlled karst — Fort Worth Basin, Texas: A tutorial

    Article • Interpretation, August 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  88. Introduction to special section: Karst

    Article • Interpretation, August 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Jerome bellian

  89. 3D Alford rotation analysis for the Diamond M Field, Midland Basin, Texas

    Article • Interpretation, May 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, james thomas

  90. Relative acoustic impedance from wavelet transform

    Article • Interpretation, February 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  91. Generative topographic mapping for seismic facies estimation of a carbonate wash, Veracruz Basin, southern Mexico

    Article • Interpretation, February 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  92. Attribute illumination of basement faults, examples from Cuu Long Basin basement, Vietnam and the Midcontinent, USA

    Article • Interpretation, February 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  93. Introduction to special section: Seismic attributes

    Article • Interpretation, February 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Ralf Oppermann

  94. A window into the Proterozoic: Integrating 3D seismic, gravity, and magnetic data to image subbasement structures in the southeast Fort Worth basin

    Article • Interpretation, November 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr G. Randy Keller, Kurt J Marfurt

  95. Seismic azimuthal anisotropy analysis after hydraulic fracturing

    Article • Interpretation, November 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  96. Seismic attribute driven integrated characterization of the Woodford Shale in west-central Oklahoma

    Article • Interpretation, November 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  97. Seismic characterization of a Mississippi Lime resource play in Osage County, Oklahoma, USA

    Article • Interpretation, November 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  98. Characterizing a Mississippian tripolitic chert reservoir using 3D unsupervised and supervised multiattribute seismic facies analysis: An example from Osage County, Oklahoma

    Article • Interpretation, November 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  99. Pitfalls in prestack inversion of merged seismic surveys

    Article • Interpretation, August 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Dr. Sumit Verma, Yoryenys Del Moro

  100. Resolving subtle stratigraphic features using spectral ridges and phase residues

    Article • Interpretation, August 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  101. Nonstretching NMO correction of prestack time-migrated gathers using a matching-pursuit algorithm

    Article • Geophysics, January 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt

  102. Integration of hydraulically induced microseismic event locations with active seismic attributes: A North Texas Barnett Shale case study

    Article • Geophysics, May 2012, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt