In our last SEP report, we introduced an AVO dataset consisting of seismic, petrophysical and well-log information which was provided by Mobil as part of an AVO workshop (?). The prestack seismic data are heavily contaminated by free-surface and water-bottom multiple reflections, and thus represent a challenge for true-amplitude processing. We described our preliminary preprocessing work and di...

avo analysis is a technique which is widely used in industry and is applied on seismic prestack data. results from changes in seismic wave reflection amplitude versus offset can be used in extracting elastic properties and hence lithology and reservoirs pore fluid identification. before performing avo analysis studies, processing steps should be ensured that changes in reflection amplitude are ...

Aligned vertical fractures introduce velocity anisotropy which is directly related to parameters, such as fracture density, fracture shape and fracture contents. Effective medium models allow us to study qPand qS-wave velocity anisotropy in rocks with aligned vertical fractures, intersecting fracture sets and aligned fractures with smallscale porosity. Spatially varying fracture density distrib...

In this article we investigate AVO effects of large offset P-wave data (up to ) and converted waves (up to ). In addition to conventional P-wave AVO attributes ( and ) a third term ( ) is examined. For P to S converted waves we introduce two AVO attributes and . Background trends for certain cross plots are related to rock property relationships. These new attributes are used to discriminate co...

5D interpolation followed by azimuthal prestack migration results in better conditioned gathers for Amplitude Versus Offset (AVO) and Amplitude Versus Azimuth (AVAz) analysis. The data should be prestack migrated prior to AVO or AVAz analysis, but this often proves problematic for land data due to the poor sampling of the data in offset and azimuth. This sparse sampling results in incomplete co...

INTRODUCTION The use of hodograms in interpretation of AVO cross-plots is a relatively recent innovation (Keho, 2000). Often, when comparing models of attributes to the actual seismic attributes, we find that anomalous zones are much closer to the background trend than the model indicates. One reason for this concerns wavelet effects. The AVO hodogram takes wavelet effects into account and can ...