List of Contributors xviiPreface xxiAcknowledgments xxiiiIntroduction to "Handbook of Petroleum Geoscience: Exploration, Characterization, and Exploitation of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs" 1Soumyajit Mukherjee, Swagato Dasgupta, Chandan Majumdar, Subhadip Mandal, and Troyee Dasgupta1 Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for Petroleum Reservoir Characterization 6Soumi Chaki, Aurobinda Routray, and William K. Mohanty2 Petrophysical Predictions Using Regression and Advanced Machine Learning Algorithm 21Shubham Singh and Abhijeet Bhardwaj3 A Modified Guided Filter to Denoise Seismic Attributes 50Soumi Chaki, S.L. Happy, Aurobinda Routray, and William K. Mohanty4 Geomechanics: A Basic Requirement for Wells at Every Operational Stage 66Chandreyi Chatterjee, Chandan Majumdar, Lenin Mora Guerrero, and Juan Carlos Rabanal Chavez5 In Situ Stresses from Log Measurements 89Kuppili Meenakshi Sundaram6 3D Inversion of Ultra-Deep Azimuthal Electromagnetic Logging-While-Drilling Data 101Nigel Clegg and Karol Riofrio Rodriguez7 Solving the Puzzle: Seven Effective Habits of Geosteering Team Members 115Bronwyn Djefel8 Driving Technology for Geosteering Decisions: Halliburton Geosteering 123Bronwyn Djefel and Nigel Clegg9 Rock Strength Estimation from Petrophysical Logs Through Core Data Calibration in Low Porosity and Low Permeability Carbonate Rocks 137Sankhajit Saha and Vikram Vishal10 Review on Organic Porosity in Shale Reservoirs 151Deependra Pratap Singh, Bodhisatwa Hazra, Vivek Singh, and Pradeep K. Singh11 Experimental Understanding of Pore Structure and Wettability of the Unconventional Reservoir 172Md Golam Kibria and Qinhong Hu12 Analysis of Pore Characteristics of Select Indian Shale Samples and Assessment of Pore Connectivity by Conformance Correction of Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry Results 198Tuli Bakshi, Venkata Yasaswy Turlapati, Vikram Vishal, B.K Prusty, and Khanindra Pathak13 Geochemical Modeling of Diagenetic Reactions in the Eocene Sediment-Gravity-Flow Deposit Reservoirs Influenced by Salt Tectonics: The Espírito Santo Basin, Brazil 212Marcos Antonio Klunk, Sudipta Dasgupta, Mohuli Das, Renzo D'souza, Soyane Juceli Siqueira Xavier, and Paulo Roberto Wander14 Stratigraphic Boundary Detection Using UDWT and Edge-Detection on Well Log Data 219Somali Roy, Biplab Kumar Mukherjee, and Sudipta Dasgupta15 Source Rock Geochemistry for Shale Characterization 233Devleena Mani, Nihar Ranjan Kar, and M.S. Kalpana16 A GIS-Based Approach to Explore the Possibility of N--S Gondwana Rift in the South-Eastern Part of India 254Subhobroto Mazumder, Ravi Prakash, and D.S. Mitra17 The Upper Assam Basin, Its Evolution, and Modification: A Review 280Devojit Bezbaruah, Tapos Kumar Goswami, and Ranjan Kumar Sarmah18 Basement Tectonics in the Assam Shelf and Its Implications in Hydrocarbon Exploration -- A Remote-Sensing and GIS-Based Perspective 300Subhobroto Mazumder, Blecy Tep, D.S. Mitra, and K.K.S. Pangtey19 Taphonomy, Petrophysics, and the Relationship of Dense Shell-Accumulation with Reservoir Quality 341Rodrigo Scalise Horodyski, Guilherme Furlan Chinelatto, Hugo Schmidt-Neto, Eduardo Guareschi, and Sudipta Dasgupta20 Tectonic Evolution of Jaisalmer Basin (Rajasthan, India) 374Rajesh Pandey21 Improving Insights Into Petrophysics using Geophysical Data for the Habiganj Structure, Surma Basin, Bangladesh 394Kamruzzaman, Delwar Hossain, Mizanur Rahman Sarker, Mahmuda Khatun, and Md. Upal Shahriar22 Assessment of Efficacy of "b" Value as a Seismic Precursor for Select Major Seismic Events 413Deepali Gadkari and Soumyajit MukherjeeAcknowledgments 428References 428Web References 434
Soumyajit Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Maharashtra, India.Swagato Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.Chandan Majumdar, Schlumberger Ltd, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.Subhadip Mandal, Integrated Reservoir Solutions, Houston, Texas, USA.Troyee Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Maharashtra, India.