Seismic interpretation can be supported by seismic attribute analysis. Common seismic attributes use mathematical relationships based on the geometry and the physical properties of the subsurface to reveal features of interest. But they are mostly not capable of describing the spatial arrangement of depositional facies or reservoir properties. Textural attributes such as the grey level co-occur...

constructing phase diagram and its subsequent quality lines for lean gas condensate reservoirs is always crucial and challenging topic in reservoir fluid studies. due to small amounts of liquid drop-outs in lean gas condensates at reservoir conditions, full experimental tracking of phase diagram and its relevant quality lines is almost impossible for lean gas condensates.on the other hand, eos ...

The characterization of fluid-transport properties of rocks is one of the most important, yet difficult, challenges of reservoir geophysics, but is essential for optimal development of hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs. Production of shale oil, shale gas, heavy oil and geothermal energy, as well as carbon-dioxide sequestration, are relatively recent developments where borehole fluid injecti...

An overview of Gaussian beam imaging is given for converted and surface reflected seismic waves. The earthquake seismology community now regularly uses seismic waves from distant sources to illuminate structures beneath seismic arrays in so-called passive imaging experiments. Similarly, reservoir structures can be imaged with seismic waves incident from below using sources in boreholes. Gaussia...

The main goal of this paper is to use the multilayer perceptron neural network to suggest a 3D cube of the Total Organic Caron (TOC) in the lower Barnett shale gas reservoir. 3D Poststack seismic data recorded near two horizontal wells drilled in the lower Barnett formation are used as an input to train the neural machine, while the calculated acoustic impedance from sonic and density well-logs...

Quantitative estimates of quality factor Q are useful for a variety of applications, ranging from seismic-acquisition design, to seismic processing, amplitude analysis, and reservoir characterization. However, Q model building, which is conventionally done in the data space using ray-based tomography, is a notoriously challenging problem due to issues like spectral interference, low signal-to-n...

Introduction And Geologic Overview The Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) Smackover Formation is a stratigraphically complex carbonate formation, and a major producer of hydrocarbons in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico (Baria et al., 1982; Salvador, 1991). The main reservoir facies in the Smackover Formation are the microbial reefs, which were formed in a gently sloping to distally steepened carbonate r...

Seismic post-stack inversion is one of the best techniques for effective reservoir characterization. This study intends to articulate application Model-Based Inversion (MBI) and Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNN) identification properties i.e. porosity estimation. MBI technique applied observe low impedance zone at porous formation. PNN a geostatistical that transforms volume into volume. Inve...