Subseismic Fault Identification Using the Fault Likelihood Attribute: Application to Geosteering in the DJ Basin

Ron Harris, Kyle Bracken, Bill Miller, Steve Angelovich, Thomas O'Toole

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... faults as a change in reflector coherence, which is very different to how humans perceive faults as a visible discontinuity in, and offset of, a set...

Giant pockmark-initiated deep-water slope channel complexes

Bryan T. Cronin and the Jubilee Team, Tullow Ghana Limited

AAPG Bulletin

... or variable internal reflector dips show progressive downslope movement of the areas south of the ridges. The dip section in Figure 18B shows a close-up...

Rift Systems: Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis and Petroleum Exploration of Paleogene Lacustrine Sandstone Bodies, Offshore Bohai Basin, China

Jiang Xi-jiang

AAPG Special Volumes

... base is marked by a south-dipping, high-amplitude reflector having good continuity and probably resulting from the smoothly eroded basement surface. Its...

2D Survey Earth Model Building and Depth Imaging Using 3D Grid-Based Tomography Technology

Eric Pearson, Suyang Chen

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in the overburden include: a rugose water bottom, a strong Bottom Simulating Reflector (BSR), and a shallow fold-thrust belt over the western half...

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...

Age Dating of Expected MCSB Seismic Event Suggests That It Is the K/T Boundary

Dohmen, Ted E.

GCAGS Transactions

... reflector in the abyssal Gulf of Mexico. In many cases, unraveling the structural complexity of subsalt structures has relied on the interpretation...

ABSTRACT: New Methods for Extracting and Constructing Fault Surfaces from 3D Seismic Data; #90013 (2003)

OYVIND STEEN, STEIN INGE PEDERSEN, CHRISTOPHE BASIRE

Search and Discovery.com

... geometry of faults. Fault surfaces are usually observed from seismic discontinuities, which include reflector breaks, flexures, and amplitude changes...

What are Interpreters for? The Impact of Faster and More Objective Interpretation Systems

Martyn Millwood Hargrave, Andrew Deighan, Jamie Haynes

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... time runs short. In some cases faults are picked only as polygons from, for example, dip maps of a surface. Surface auto pickers and general tools...

Abstract: High Resolution Site Surveys Using Waterguns with Semi-Exploration Objectives

Tong Pow Mum, John Warr

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

..., we have a target at around 2000 metres which was imaged by the deep seismic survey as a weak but relatively uncomplicated unconformable reflector...

Gas Hydrates Beneath Continental Slope off Northern California: ABSTRACT

Michael E. Field, Keith A. Kvenvolden

AAPG Bulletin

...) The continental slope and plateau off northern California are underlain by a well-defined and extensive acoustic reflector that crosses other reflectors...

ABSTRACT: Seismic Characterization of the Woodford Shale in the Anadarko Basin; #90133 (2011)

Nabanita Gupta, Supratik Sarkar, and Kurt J. Marfurt

Search and Discovery.com

... geometric attributes including reflector convergence and reflector rotation along with some common attributes including coherence, curvature and coherent...

Tinggi Field - Analyzing the DHIs

Harun Mohd. Noor

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... which is down dip and wet was tested for pressures. These tests calculated about 8.6 ppg mwe (pound per gallon mud weight equivalent) to balance...

Structural and Stratigraphic Interpretation of the Muddy Formation Using the Manderson Field 3D Seismic Survey, Big Horn County, Wyoming

J. Chris Besler, Mark T. Kramer

Wyoming Geological Association

... in the Muddy reflector correspond to thick Muddy sands. Modeling of the seismic data indicates that the strong amplitude/thick Muddy sand relationship...

New Insights Into The Tertiary Petroleum Systems of The East Java Sea and Southern Makassar Strait, Indonesia

Jens Beenfeldt, Eric Mueller, Chris Sim

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... an example of syn-rift sections in the southeastern extension of the Pangkat Graben, close to the up-dip Ruby Field discovery. The syn-rift sections...

Chapter 6: Seismic Modeling

Tom Wittick

North Texas Geological Society

... travels from the shot down to a reflector in the subsurface and then back along the same path to the surface where the receiver is at the same location...

Seismic Modeling

Abilene Geological Society

... to a reflector in the subsurface and then back along the same path to the surface where the receiver is at the same location as the shot. Of course...

3D Seismic Acquisition Design in a Volcanic Environment Using Simple 2D Dynamic and 3D Static Seismic Acquisition Method Analysis in the North West Java Basin

Adib Banuboro, Gilang Wiranda, Agung Adi Susanto, Alpius Dwi Guntara, Dwa Desa W, Firman Syaifuddin

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... a reflective point of a wavefont on a geologic layer with the shape of a plane (Figure 1). Bin size parameters affect in terms of lateral resolution...

Seismic Fracture Identification and Horizontal Drilling: Keys to Optimizing Productivity in a Fractured Reservoir, Giddings Field, Texas

Nanette Kuich

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... a stratigraphic trap structurally represented by the regional dip of the area. Hydrocarbon production is primarily controlled by the development of natural...

Seismic Fracture Identification and Horizontal Drilling: Keys to Optimizing Productivity in a Fractured Reservoir, Giddings Field, Texas

Nanette Kuich

GCAGS Transactions

... in the Texas Gulf Coast (Horstmann, 1987). In the field, the Austin Chalk forms a stratigraphic trap structurally represented by the regional dip...

Dilworth (Carrizo) Field , McMullen County, Texas

Redge L. Greenberg and T. W. Swinbank

GCAGS Transactions

... degrees of dip, although steeper dips were anticipated close to the salt diapir. The 3-D survey layout covered a total of 10.6 square miles, including 2...

Chapter Seventeen: Structural Evolution of the T-Block Brae Fields, South Viking Graben

Simon Allerton, Eugenio Giuliani, Amy Kwiatkowski, Mark Jones, Julian Robinson, Adam Styles

AAPG Special Volumes

... morphology has been modified by postrifting thermal subsidence, increasing the eastward dip of the fault terraces. Inversion in the Early Cretaceous...

Exercises Part C: Deformed Eastern Niger Delta

Deborah E. Ajakaiye, Albert W. Bally

AAPG Special Volumes

... about 1700 to over 2300 m. It is a dip section, which displays similar seismic characteristics as observed in Exercise 10 (Figure 21). In Class...

Coarse-Grained, Deep-Water Sedimentation Along a Border Fault Margin of Lake Malawi, Africa: Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis

Michael J. Soreghan , Christopher A. Scholz , John T. Wells

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in terms of size and scale of the reservoir, and the composition and internal character of the sediment constituting the reservoir. However, because rift...

Recent Advances in Borehole Seismic

W. L. Nutt

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... path VSP or zero offset VSP records data from only a limited region around and below the borehole making dip and structure definition difficult...

New Solutions to Old Problems: A Seismic Reprocessing Case History, DC and BQ Fields, Malacca Strait PSC

Charles A. Hinson

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., are represented by lines which dip at different angles across the diagram. The signal and noise are well separated from each other over most of the diagram and can...