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 ...

avo theory was introduced around 20 years ago. in recent years, this technique was become to a major tool in hydrocarbon sources exploration. by the help of this method with the suitable understanding from underground layers and knowing how to use this technology, quantitative specifications of reservoir can be recognized. avo analysis is a seismic technique that by using of pre-stack data, est...

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 ...

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...

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...

The presence of gas hydrate and associated gas in the Makran Accretionary Prism, offshore Iran, has been confirmed by various seismic indicators, including the bottom-simulating reflector (BSR), amplitude blanking, and bright spot. The pre-stack analysis and the study of amplitude-variation-with-offset (AVO) attributes are the most reliable tools for semi-quantitative study of gas hydrate and f...

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...

Amplitude versus Angle (AVA) attributes include information about rock properties. Using a dataset from South America, we performed a multiple realization method to get multiple equal-probable AVA intercepts, gradients, and their products. We generated a 3D histogram to evaluate the variability of those AVA attributes. In the same area, we chose a 2-D section by matching it to three wells. Then...

The method of simultaneous PP-PS inversion has recently been developed and tested on the 3-D Blackfoot seismic data set. This paper shows the application of this method on 3C-2D seismic data from Pikes Peak oilfield. The inversion was accomplished with a newly installed inversion module in ProMAX. After careful prestack processing, five limitedoffset stacked sections for each of the vertical an...

Abstract Amplitude Versus Offset (AVO) analysis has been successfully applied in the hydrocarbon industry for more than three decades. This effective tool of joint seismic and well-log data processing enables to predict analyze fluid saturated porous geological formations. AVO methodology is based on anomalous behavior pre-stack reflected amplitudes observed from bearing rocks. However, potenti...