flow unit characterization plays an important role in heterogeneity analysis and reservoir simulation studies. usually, a correct description of the lateral variations of reservoir is associated with uncertainties. from this point of view, the well data alone does not cover reservoir properties. because of large well distances, it is difficult to build the model of a heterogenic reservoir, but ...

Seismic interpreters are often faced with the need to visualise and interpret a number of seismic attributes simultaneously. Side-by-side visualisation of the individual attributes and use of monochromatic colour bars are still widely used techniques, which nevertheless present a number of limitations. In this paper we discuss how colour can be used effectively in order to support simultaneous ...

Salt domes, an important geological structure, are closely related to the formation of petroleum reservoirs. In many cases, no explicit strong reflector exists between a salt dome and neighboring geological structures. Therefore, interpreters commonly delineate the boundaries of salt domes by observing a change in texture content. To stimulate the visual interpretation process, we propose a nov...

Seismic Inversion methods have been routinely used for estimating attributes like P-impedance, Simpedance, density, ratio of P-wave and S-wave velocity and elastic impedances from seismic and well log data. These attributes help to understand lithology and fluid contents in the subsurface. The objective of this research is to use several standard seismic post-stack inversion methods for reservo...

Texture-based methods have proven to be useful in the detection of salt bodies in seismic data. In this abstract, we present three computationally inexpensive texture attributes that strongly differentiate salt bodies from other geological formations. The proposed method combines the three texture attributes along with region boundary smoothing for delineating salt boundaries. Our first propose...

This paper explores the relationship between velocity uncertainty and AVO-related seismic attributes in a dataset from the Blake Outer Ridge, offshore from Florida and Georgia. From an initial velocity model, several realizations were generated that are perturbations of the original velocity model. Prestack wave-equation migration was applied to the data for each velocity realization. In the mi...

In case of porous fluid-saturated medium the Biot’s poroelasticity theory predicts a movement of the pore fluid relative to the skeleton on seismic wave propagation through the medium. This phenomenon opens an opportunity for investigation of the flow properties of the hydrocarbon-saturated reservoirs. It is well known that relative fluid movement becomes negligible at seismic frequencies if po...

In this paper we show the implementation of bilinear time-frequency representations in the interpretation of seismic data. In seismic stratigraphy the reeection patterns in seismic data are interpreted in terms of subsurface stratiication and lithological properties. The time-frequency representation clearly elicits seismic reeection patterns and can thus provide useful information on subsurfac...