Tech Note: Volumetric Seismic Attributes for Automated Fault Interpretation and Structural Interpretation: A Growth Fault Example from the Texas Gulf Coast

Alison Henning, Gaynor Fisher, and Stephen Purves

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

...-preserving filter to remove coherent and random noise, while retaining features such as edges, corners, and sharp dips. The fault detection attributes were...

Frequency-dependent seismic-stratigraphic and facies interpretation

Hongliu Zeng

AAPG Bulletin

..., the noise in data can distort seismic response to geology and make interpretation misleading and less useful. Coherent noise and random noise are both...

A Combination of Genetic Inversion and Seismic Frequency Attributes to Delineate Reservoir Targets in Offshore Northern Orange Basin, South Africa, #51398 (2017).

Chris A. Samakinde, Jan van Bever Donker, Silvia Lanes

Search and Discovery.com

... relationship established. Frequency filtering was performed as a form of post stack seismic processing technique to remove passive noise and enhance...

Pushing the boundary of WAZ streamer data for subsalt imaging: A case study in deepwater Mexico Campeche

Yi Chen, Kendra Pyke, Juan Wang, Jasmeen Moubarak, Earl Manning, Jessica Kopp, Rongzhang Chen, Chang Chen, Ravi Kumar, Minshen Wang, Sabaresan Mothi

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... conventional imaging methods face limitations such as illumination variations, noise, migration artifacts, and residual multiples in the data (Zhang et...

High Effort 3D Design for End of Life Field Cravo Norte 3D

Keith Meyerholtz

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... diagram showing azimuthal distribution of shots. Noise in the form of linear stripes (Figure 7) are visible throughout the 1985 3D dataset...

Improving Stratigraphic and Structural Interpretation of Suban 3D Through Advanced Reprocessing

Safitri Nurida, Irfan Yuliandri Syukri, Ludy Andria

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... shows major improvements in frequency content, higher signal to noise ratio and continuity and in steep dip imaging. Detailed stratigraphic...

Seismic diffraction imaging for improved coal structure detection in complex geological environments

Binzhong Zhou, Weijia Sun

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... data. The filter estimates the reflections with the average values of the neighbouring traces along the reflection direction or dip, which can...

Abstract: Practical Examples of the Implementation of Surface Related Multiple Elimination for Land Data; #90286 (2017)

Philip J. Thompson

Search and Discovery.com

... from both structured and flat areas show the robustness of LSRME. Traditionally, multiples in land data were handled by dip filtering, moveout...

A Simple Seismic Forward

Search and Discovery.com

Abstract: Structurally-Consistent Interval Velocity Variation with Azimuth; #90187 (2014)

Darren Schmidt, Alicia Veronesi, Chris Davison, and Jeff Durand

Search and Discovery.com

... is presented which uses strong, coherent events on the stacked seismic data to improve the interval velocity derivation. This result has higher VVAz...

Unraveling Subtle Geological Features with 3D Seismic Attributesthe Dollarhide Field, West Texas

Isabel C. Serrano, Charles H. Blumentritt, E. Charlotte Sullivan, Kurt J. Marfurt, Michael Murphy

West Texas Geological Society

... of coherent energy without smoothing, and eigenvector-derived dip and dip-azimuth. Based on these attributes, we identified an additional set of small...

Visualizing Anisotropy in Seismic Facies Using Stratigraphically Constrained, Multi-Directional Texture Attribute Analysis; #120163 (2014)

Christoph Georg Eichkitz, Paul de Groot, Friso Brouwer

Search and Discovery.com

... directions in the GLCM calculation. The second innovation is that the method allows GLCM input planes to be ‘dip steered’ meaning that the input...

Analysis of High Resolution Seismic Data: Section 2. Application of Seismic Reflection Configuration to Stratigraphic Interpretation

Herman C. Sieck, George W. Self

AAPG Special Volumes

..., filtering and stacking improve resolution on some acoustic systems just as they improve resolution in deep seismic shooting. Recent emphasis in resource...

A Comparison of Prestack Depth and Prestack Time Imaging of the Paktoa Complex, Canadian Beaufort MacKenzie Basin

G. R. Elsley, H. Tieman

AAPG Special Volumes

... 100 to 200 ms and has spatial widths of 200 to 800 m (656 to 2625 ft), depending on the depth of interest. The time dip of a coherent event in x, y...

Geometric and seismic interpretation of the Perdido fold belt: Northwestern deep-water Gulf of Mexico

Rion H. Camerlo, Edward F. Benson

AAPG Bulletin

... layer. The detachment fold crests are bounded by kink bands, which are narrow zones of angularly folded strata. The low-reflectivity, lowsignal-to-noise...

Mapping Middle Triassic Doig Sandstone Reservoirs in Northeast British Columbia Using Seismic Attributes; #51080 (2015)

Satinder Chopra, Ritesh Kumar Sharma, James Keay

Search and Discovery.com

... produced oil and gas in northeast British Columbia and northwest Alberta, Canada. These reservoirs occur in the study area as N-S trending linear sandstone...

Understanding Basement Controls on Basin Development: Constraints from Gravity and Magnetic Data.

Duncan R. Cowan, Linda A. Tompkins, Terry Tyler

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... anomalous fields have similar wavelength contents, therefore, pre-filtering is usually required. Separation or layer filtering allows the effects of shallow...

Chapter 12: Microseismic Monitoring in Early Haynesville Development

Peter M. Duncan, William B. Barker, Leo Eisner, Peter G. Smith, Kevin Smith, Sherilyn Williams-Stroud

AAPG Special Volumes

... of 12 vertical component geophones placed in a linear array along the line. Group length and group interval were both 55 ft (17 m). A vertical well...

New technologies for seismic resolution enhancement and bandwidth expansion: Applications in SE Asian Basin

Yasir Bashir, Abdul Halim Abdul Latiff, Muhammad Sajid

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... or eliminating any impact on noise. The article presents various wavelet transform techniques that can effectively enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N...

Extended Abstract: Reservoir Imaging and Characterisation: The Roller Field

Total Depth (Exploration Services) Pty. Ltd., Signal Estimation Technology Inc.

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., and lateral coherent noise in the data and improve the attenuation result shows which frequencies changes in the impedance of the reservoir...

Imaging of Fractures and Faults inside Granite Basement Using Controlled Beam Migration (Geophysics Paper 5)

Don Pham, Jason Sun, James Sun, Qingbing Tang, Graeme Bone, Nguyen Truong Giang

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... improvements in signal-to-noise ratio and steep dip imaging inside the basement. We present the methodology and results in this abstract. Methodology Data...

FALCON® Airborne Gravity Gradiometry Provides a Smarter Exploration Tool for Unconventional and Conventional Hydrocarbons: Case Study from the Fitzroy Trough, Onshore Canning Basin

David Moore, Priyanka Roy Chowdhury, Tony Rudge

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... effective, low noise, high resolution vertical gravity gradient (GDD) and gravity (g D) product with the rapid acquisition of an airborne platform...

Cross Sections from Dipmeter Data (1)

ARNAUD ETCHECOPAR and JEAN-LUC BONNETAIN

AAPG Bulletin

... the average thickness of the layers has to be preserved. However, a strong preliminary filtering of the dip data is necessary in order to retain only those...

Use of Meta Attributes to Identify Migration Pathways in a Tertiary Basin, Deepwater Sundaland Margin

Paul Ware, Fred Aminzadeh, Brenton Oke, Tom Setzer

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... schematically in Figure 2. Figure 2. Schematic dip cross-section across a Miocene basin flanking Sundaland, horizontal and vertical scales are arbitrary...

Abstract: Characterization of Submarine Catastrophic Events - Reservoir or Seal?

M. Johansson

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... and enclosed in coherent sediment, although obviously these features could be much larger. Figure 1. Characteristic Dip Patterns in slides (Dark...