Table of Contents

1. Petrophysics review 2. Elements of elasticity theory 3. Pore Pressure Review 4. Incompressibility of rocks and the Gassmann equation 5. Fluid substitution 6. Forward modeling and empirical equations 7. Applications of rock physics to AVO analyses 8. Applications of rock physics to inversion studies 9. Modelling Carbonates Using Differential Effective Medium Theory

About the Author

Robert Gullco received his Master’s degree in Geological Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). He has worked as a Geologist and Petrophysicist in YPF (then Argentina state oil company), Wapet (now Chevron) in Western Australia, Paradigm Geophysical (in both Australia and Mexico), and CGG and Citla Energy in Mexico. He has taken courses on geomathematics at Stanford University and a course on applied mathematics at Curtin University.

Malcolm Anderson took his first degree in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the Australian National University in Canberra and then completed a PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. He has taught applied mathematics and mathematical physics at the Australian National University, the University of New South Wales and Edith Cowan University. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mathematics Group at Universiti Brunei Darussalam.