Top Presentations at IMAGE 2025
Congratulations to the IMAGE 2025 Top Presentation Award Winners! Each year highly ranked presentations are selected as recognized outstanding contributions to the technical program. We would like to honor those winners for their participation.
Geophysical Technology
Best Co-Oral
Paper Title: Breaking the Subsalt Image Resolution Barrier: Insights from an Ultra-High Density Deepwater Ocean Bottom Nodes Experiment in Thunder Horse, GoA
Byline: Ganyuan Xia, John Etgen, Zhehao Li (bp)
Speaker: Ganyuan Xi
Best Co-Oral
Paper Title: Bright spot in borehole acoustic reflection imaging: Theoretical modeling and field application
Byline: X.M. Tang, W.H. Wang, H.M. Wang, and K.Y. Zheng (China University of Petroleum (East))
Speaker: Xiaoming Tang
Best Poster
Paper Title: GAN-Based Seismic Horizon Tracking
Byline: Wenhao Zhen, Rebecca Bell, Lluis Guasch, Carlos Cueto, Polina Pasalska, Yanghua Wang (Imperial College London)
Speaker: Wenhao Zheng
Geological Technology
Best Oral
Paper Title: Controls and predictions of oil accumulations and column heights in gas dominated petroleum systems
Byline: Lukasz Krawczynski (Top Down Petroleum Systems Analysis) and Martin Neumaier (ArianeLogix)
Speaker: Lukasz Krawczynski
Best Poster
Paper Title: Anomalous hydrogen and noble gas isotope trends in thermally overmature Marcellus Formation natural gases, Allegheny structural front, North-Central Appalachian orogen USA
Byline: Christopher D. Laughrey and Myles Moore (Stratum Reservoir), Evelyn Hudson and David Vance (Formentera Operations)
Speaker: Christopher Daniel Laughrey
Regional Themes
Best Oral
Paper Title: Appraisal while developing - Payara field, offshore Guyana: Derisking secondary resources via development drilling and early flowback to accelerate reservoir production
Byline: Jacob Violet, Mimi Do, Ryan Ruppert (ExxonMobil Upstream Company)
Speaker: Jacob Andrew Violet
Best Poster
Paper Title: Salt-Water Disposal Associated Seismicity in a Proterozoic Fold and Thrust Front, Delaware Basin, New Mexico
Byline: Carlos J. Lopez1, Elizabeth Horne2, Josimar Alves Da Silva Jr1 and Stefan Hussenoeder1, 1. ExxonMobil Upstream; 2. The University of Texas at Austin
Speaker: Carlos Jose Lopez
Geoscience
Best Oral
Paper Title: Leveraging geological data to construct training models for supervised deep learning inversion
Byline: Xiaolong Wei1,2, Jiajia Sun1, Ji’en Dong3,4, Rui Guo5,6 ; 1. University of Houston; 2. Stanford University; 3. China University of Geosciences; 4. Geological Survey Bureau of Qinghai Province; 5. Tsinghua University; 6. Weizmann Institute of Science
Speaker: Xiaolong Wei
Best Poster
Paper Title: Hydrogen Generation and Reactivity in Organic-Rich Sedimentary Rocks
Byline: Jagoš R. Radović, Poorna Srinivasan, Qi Fu, Yingcai Zheng, (University of Houston); Yulun Han (Texas A&M University-San Antonio)
Speaker: Jagos Radovic
Students
Best Student Poster
Paper Title: Geochemical Signatures of the Mowry Shale: Insights into Its Unconventional Reservoir Potential
Byline: B. Taylor1, S. M. Hudson1, B. Greenhalgh2, A. Toner1, M. Kartchner1; 1. Brigham Young University, 2. Enbridge Gas
Speaker: Brad Taylor
Best Student Poster
Paper Title: Assessing Geothermal Gradient and Hot Sedimentary Aquifer (HSA) Potential for Geo-Exchange in Western Colorado, Piceance Basin
Byline: Michael Longworth, Javier Tellez and, Steve Cumella (Colorado Mesa University)
Speaker: Michael Longworth
Best Student Poster
Paper Title: Monitoring CO2 leakage safety in saline aquifer using time-lapse seismic imaging
Byline: Yanjiao Dong, Yi Shen and Qiang Mao (China University of Petroleum (East China))
Speaker: Yanjiao Dong