Seismic Attributes for Prospect Identification and Reservoir Characterization

Seismic attributes play a key role in exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons. In “Seismic Attributes for Prospect Identification and Reservoir Characterization“ Satinder Chopra and Kurt J. Marfurt introduce the physical basis, mathematical implementation, and geologic expression of modern volumetric attributes including coherence, dip/azimuth, curvature, amplitude gradients, seismic textures, and spectral decomposition. The authors demonstrate the importance of effective color display and sensitivity to seismic acquisition and processing. Examples from different basins illustrate the attribute expression of tectonic deformation, clastic depositional systems, carbonate depositional systems and diagenesis, drilling hazards, and reservoir characterization. “The book “Seismic Attributes for Prospect Identification and Reservoir Characterization“ features abundant color illustrations throughout its pages.”

The seismic Attributes  will appeal to seismic interpreters who want to extract more information from data; seismic processors and imagers who want to learn how their efforts impact subtle stratigraphic and fracture plays; sedimentologists, stratigraphers, and structural geologists who use large 3D seismic volumes to interpret their plays within a regional, basinwide context; and reservoir engineers whose work is based on detailed 3D reservoir models. Copublished with EAGE.

Contents

• Chapter 1: Overview of Seismic Attributes
• Chapter 2: Volumetric Dip and Azimuth
• Chapter 3: Coherence
• Chapter 4: Volumetric Curvature and Reflector Shape
• Chapter 5: Lateral Changes in Amplitude and Pattern Recognition
• Chapter 6: Spectral Decomposition and Wavelet Transforms
• Chapter 7: Influence of Data Acquisition and Processing on Geometric Attributes
• Chapter 8: Structure-oriented Filtering and Image Enhancement
• Chapter 9: Multiattribute Displays
• Chapter 10: Prestack Geometric Attributes
• Chapter 11: Attribute Expression of Structural Deformation
• Chapter 12: Attribute Expression of Clastic Depositional Environments
• Chapter 13: Attribute Expression of Carbonate Depositional Environments
• Chapter 14: Attribute Expression of Deepwater Depositional Environments and Mapping Potential Drilling Hazards
• Chapter 15: Mapping Reservoir Heterogeneity
• Chapter 16: Discovery of Ring Faults Associated with Salt Withdrawal Basins, Early Cretaceous Age, in the East Texas Basin
• Chapter 17: Volume-based Curvature Computations Illuminate Fracture Orientations — Early to Mid-Paleozoic, Central Basin Platform, West Texas
• Chapter 18: Application of New Seismic Attributes to Collapse Chimneys in the Fort Worth Basin
• Chapter 19: Applications of the Coherency Cube in the UKCS
• Chapter 20: Shallow Hazard Detection in the Near Surface, a Coherence Cube Processing Application