Estimating and compensating for anisotropy observed in PS data for a heavy oil reservoir

Autor: Xinxiang Li, Robert Whale, Kevin Douglas, Richard Bale, Kostya Poplavskii, Chris Slind
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2009.
DOI: 10.1190/1.3255070
Popis: Summary Shear-wave anisotropy in the Quaternary and upper Cretaceous section can be significant over heavy-oil reservoirs in Alberta. Compensation for the overburden shear-wave splitting improves the PS data used for reservoir characterization of the deeper targets. We illustrate both the analysis and compensation of splitting for a recently acquired 3-C dataset. The correction is applied using a layer-stripping approach to distinguish overburden effects from possible reservoir-level anisotropy.
Databáze: OpenAIRE