The presence of gas hydrate and associated gas in the Makran Accretionary Prism, offshore Iran, has been confirmed by various seismic indicators, including the bottom-simulating reflector (BSR), amplitude blanking, and bright spot. The pre-stack analysis and the study of amplitude-variation-with-offset (AVO) attributes are the most reliable tools for semi-quantitative study of gas hydrate and f...

AVO studies have enjoyed a mixed success rate in predicting the existence of hydrocarbons in sediments. Sometimes AVO predictions are accurate, but other times they can be quite wrong. It seems likely that the success rate might increase if more sophisticated AVO methods could be employed such as full wave inversion. In fact elastic wave equation inversion has been applied to seismic data with ...

Gas-hydrates are crystalline form of water and methane that form at high pressure and low temperature. They have attracted the global attention due to their wide-spread occurrences in the permafrost and outer continental margins; potential as major energy resources; role in climate change etc. It is estimated that the carbon in gas-hydrates is two times the carbon content in fossil fuel reserve...

The conventional Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method is limited to the selected shape and size of proposal distribution and is not easy to start when the initial proposal distribution is far away from the target distribution. To overcome these drawbacks of the conventional MCMC method, two useful improvements in MCMC method, adaptive Metropolis (AM) algorithm and delayed rejection (DR) algor...

SUMMARY Wavelet estimation plays an important role in many seismic processes like impedance inversion, amplitude versus offset (AVO) and full waveform inversion (FWI). Statistical methods of wavelet estimation away from well control are a desirable tool to support seismic signal processing. One of these methods based on Homomorphic analysis has long intrigued as a potentially elegant solution t...