Imaging using the ambient wave field; low‐frequency seismic imaging of an unproduced oil reservoir in Egypt

Autor: Ben Witten, Brad Birkelo
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2011.
DOI: 10.1190/1.3627610
Popis: A low frequency (LF) passive seismic survey was acquired in Egypt over a discovered but unproduced oil reservoir. Sixty hours of synchronous data were recorded on an array of stations in several lines over the oil discovery and adjacent prospects. The survey design allowed for the implementation of 3D Time-Reverse Imaging (TRI). Quiet portions of the recorded wave field refocused in the subsurface at the discovery well and at least one of the prospective surrounding fault blocks. The TRI data volume was loaded and interpreted on a G&G workstation using a work flow developed to rigorously analyze this new data type. A series of experiments were conducted to test the sensitivity of the results to changes in the input data and velocity model.
Databáze: OpenAIRE