We present an efficient method for robustly calculating time–frequency attributes of a signal, including instantaneous mean frequency, bandwidth, kurtosis, and other moments. Most current attribute estimation techniques involve a costly intermediate step of computing a (highly oversampled) two-dimensonal (2-D) quadratic time–frequency representation (TFR), which is then collapsed to the one-dim...

Identification of the geological facies and their distribution from seismic and other available geological information is important during the early stage of reservoir development (e.g. decision on initial well locations). Traditionally, this is done by manually inspecting the signatures of the seismic attribute maps, which is very time-consuming. This paper proposes an application of the Expec...

In this paper, we present a combined geological, geophysical and rock mechanics approach to natural fractured reservoir characterization. The local structure entropy analysis on 3D seismic data is used to detect distributions of fault and subfault systems. The curvature attribute along with modeled strain and stress field, constrained with the log data measuring Pand S-wave velocities and rock ...

Well data gives precise information on reservoir properties at specific field locations with high vertical resolution. 3D seismic surveys cover large areas of the field but reservoir properties are not directly observable due to poor vertical resolution. For this paper, a new methodology has been developed and tested for relating reservoir properties at the well-bore to sets of seismic attribut...

Identifying gas hydrates in the oceanic subsurface using seismic reflection data supported by presence of a bottom simulating reflector (BSR) is not an easy task, given wide range geophysical methods that have been applied to do so. Though BSR attributed attenuation response, as waves transition from hydrate-filled sediment within hydrate stability zone (GHSZ) free gas-bearing below, few studie...

The relative elastic energy partitioning during Strombolian eruptions can be estimated from acoustic pressure and seismic velocity records. We outline methods for determining acoustic and seismic energies for sensors deployed within several kilometers of erupting vents. We use these energies to introduce the concept of the volcano acoustic–seismic ratio (g, or VASR), which is the ratio of elast...

At an EOR field in South Oman an extensive synthetic modeling study was done in order understand steam flow behaviour within the reservoir. To understand the permeability distribution within the steam flooded zone, a simulated “Close-the-Loop” workflow was executed based on scenario modeling that relates changes in acoustic properties (velocity and density) with those in reservoir properties su...

In subduction zones, elevated pore fluid pressure, generally linked to metamorphic dehydration reactions, has a profound influence on the mechanical behavior of the plate interface and forearc crust through its control on effective stress. We use seismic noise-based monitoring to characterize seismic velocity variations following the 2012 Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica earthquake [M w (moment mag...

in data reduction processes through classifications applied to a wide spectrum of aspects—from traffic solutions and medicinal purposes to geophysical interpretations. Here we use an unsupervised approach where the neural network is free to search, to recognize, and to classify structural patterns in an n-dimensional vector field spanning the entire 3D input seismic attribute data set (Taner et...

Seismic object detection is a relatively new field in which 3-D bodies are visualized and spatial relationships between objects of different origins are studied in order to extract geologic information. In this paper, we propose a method for finding an optimal classifier with the help of a statistical feature ranking technique and combining different classifiers. The method, which has general a...