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Abstract
Rick
Sarg
Seismic
imaging of carbonate reservoirs and systems
2004. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.
Three-Dimensional
Seismic
Volume Visualization of Carbonate Reservoirs and Structures
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Jose Luis Masaferro, Ruth Bourne, Jean Claude Jauffred
Shell International EP, Technology Applications
Research (SEPTAR), Rijswijk, The Netherlands
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors thank Shell International Exploration and Production BV for permission to publish this chapter. Petronas, Sarawak Shell Berhad, Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations, Petroleum Development Oman, and Shell Compaia Argentina de Petroleo are gratefully acknowledged for giving permission to publish the
data
shown in the chapter. We would like to acknowledge the contribution of the
Seismic
Volume
Interpretation
Team (VOICE) and the Carbonate Development Team within Shell Technology Applications and Research (SEPTAR).
Our chapter has benefited from numerous discussions with Gregor Eberli, Charles Kerans, Josep Poblet, Mayte Bulnes, Jurriaan Reijs, Updesh Singh, Neil Casson, Jrgen Gr
tsch, Peter Melville, Jan-Henk van Konijnenburg, Volker Vahrenkamp, and Taury Smith. The manuscript was significantly improved by the reviews of Albert Hine, Mark Grasmueck, and Gregor Eberli. Elena Morettini, Paul Wagner, and Christophe Mercadier provided useful comments to the final version of the chapter.
ABSTRACT
In pure carbonate systems, the combined effect of variations in depositional facies and diagenetic alterations plays a key role in controlling variations in sonic velocities and thus in acoustic impedance. As seismic
facies are delineated by acoustic impedance contrasts, depositional facies and geometries may be rather poorly defined for various carbonates environments (e.g., shallow-water platform carbonates). Accurate three-dimensional imaging of
seismic
facies and geometries is critical to construct a realistic, seismically constrained reservoir model. Conventional two- and three-dimensional (2-D and 3-D, respectively)
seismic
mapping is not an ideal predictive method when attempting to characterize carbonate reservoirs mainly because of the complexity and heterogeneity of carbonate systems.
Three-dimensional image-processing techniques of stacked and migrated data
incorporate all three dimensions, which when combined help to identify and highlight events of significance in the
data
. The result is an attribute cube or volume that can be analyzed and interpreted more objectively by the interpreter than the conventional horizon-based
interpretation
. We have applied various 3-D image-processing techniques to produce filtered
seismic
reflectivity
data
and volume attributes to better visualize and delineate
seismic
facies, geometries, and the structure of heterogeneous carbonate reservoirs. Structure-oriented filtering was applied to improve signal-to-noise ratios and suppress random noise to obtain a better reflection definition. Combined volume dip and azimuth was calculated from the
seismic
cubes to detect subtle stratigraphic features, such as low-angle progradation units and shoal-type mounded
seismic
facies in the Permian Khuff and Upper Cretaceous Natih E reservoirs in Oman. Semblance volumes were used to highlight reflection terminations and distinguish between stratigraphic and structural features. In the Malampaya field (Philippines), neural network classification mapping was applied to the 3-D attribute-generated volumes to extract different
seismic
facies and properties, which can be related to potential good reservoir zones. Three-dimensional visualization tools were used to image both horizons and faults of a complex inverted structure of a deep Upper Cretaceous restricted marine-lacustrine carbonate reservoir in the Yacoraite Formation, northwest Argentina.
Seismic
facies and geometries interpreted from the attribute analyses, combined with
interpretation
of the original
seismic
and core-log
data
, allowed us to construct robust structural and depositional models of carbonate environments that were used as input for static reservoir models.
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