Several AVO cross plot methods were compared using well data from 5 exploration drilled in deep water block in Krishna-Godavari basin. This study shows that AVO Impedance vs. Acoustic Impedance cross plot provides the best separation between gas bearing sands, water bearing sands and shale/clay. AVO Impedance (AVOI) attribute derived by normalizing the Acoustic Impedance (AI) and Elastic Impeda...

The variation in seismic P to P reflection amplitude with offset (AVO) caused by a system of fractures embedded in an isotropic background is investigated. Additionally. a sensitivity analysis of AVO parameters with respect to the fracture system parameters is made. The fracture system is assumed to be aligned vertically or horizontally and can be gas filled or fluid filled. Elastic constants a...

The AVO and AVAz contain valuable information about the elastic properties of a subsurface media. However, the conventional approaches are based on plane-wave theory, which cannot explain observations near the acoustic critical reflection and far offset null reflection at Rayleigh angle. In this contribution, we show our algorithm to understand the acoustic reflectivity of liquid-solid boundary...

Oil and gas production from tight, fractured reservoirs (sandstone, carbonates and shale) has increased significantly over the last decade. These hard rock targets are often characterized by vertically aligned fractures (i.e. HTI) embedded in a layered sequence (i.e. VTI). In this geologic setting, seismic velocities and η can vary with azimuth and depth. This is orthorhombic anisotropy and can...

There are a variety of methods that can be used to extract rock-properties information from seismic data. Three of the methods that can be used, include; 1. AVO analysis, followed by post-stack inversion of the AVO attributes (Goodway, et al.) 2. Prestack inversion of the P-wave data directly to impedance (Hampson et al.) 3. Joint prestack inversion of the P-wave data and converted wave data di...

Regarding absorption spectrum, high corresponds to low light transmittance and relatively loud noise, whereas information content, which interferes with the modeling of spectral analysis. Appropriate absorbance level is necessary improve content reduces noise level. In this study, based on selection upper lower bounds absorbance, value optimization partial least squares (AVO-PLS) method was pro...

We apply three moveout-based methods for multiple suppression to simple synthetic common midpoint (CMP) gathers and compare their performance in terms of level of multiple rejection and, more importantly, in terms of (1) suitability of processed output for use in analysis of amplitude variations with offset (AVO), (2) primary-to-multiple amplitude (p/m) ratio of the data after CMP stacking, and...

Seismic amplitudes contain important information which can be related to fluid saturation. The amplitude-versus-offset (AVO) analysis of seismic data based on Gassmann’s theory and approximation of the Zoeppritz equations, has played an central role in reservoir characterization. However, this standard technique faces a long standing problem, its inability to distinguish between partial gas and...