The AVO and AVAz contain valuable information about the elastic properties of a subsurface media. However, the conventional approaches are based on plane-wave theory, which cannot explain observations near the acoustic critical reflection and far offset null reflection at Rayleigh angle. In this contribution, we show our algorithm to understand the acoustic reflectivity of liquid-solid boundary...

Oil and gas production from tight, fractured reservoirs (sandstone, carbonates and shale) has increased significantly over the last decade. These hard rock targets are often characterized by vertically aligned fractures (i.e. HTI) embedded in a layered sequence (i.e. VTI). In this geologic setting, seismic velocities and η can vary with azimuth and depth. This is orthorhombic anisotropy and can...

There are a variety of methods that can be used to extract rock-properties information from seismic data. Three of the methods that can be used, include; 1. AVO analysis, followed by post-stack inversion of the AVO attributes (Goodway, et al.) 2. Prestack inversion of the P-wave data directly to impedance (Hampson et al.) 3. Joint prestack inversion of the P-wave data and converted wave data di...

Regarding absorption spectrum, high corresponds to low light transmittance and relatively loud noise, whereas information content, which interferes with the modeling of spectral analysis. Appropriate absorbance level is necessary improve content reduces noise level. In this study, based on selection upper lower bounds absorbance, value optimization partial least squares (AVO-PLS) method was pro...

We apply three moveout-based methods for multiple suppression to simple synthetic common midpoint (CMP) gathers and compare their performance in terms of level of multiple rejection and, more importantly, in terms of (1) suitability of processed output for use in analysis of amplitude variations with offset (AVO), (2) primary-to-multiple amplitude (p/m) ratio of the data after CMP stacking, and...

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...

Nowadays there is a clear trend towards using methods and tools that can develop multi-agent systems (MAS) capable of performing dynamic selforganization when they detect changes in the environment. Moreover, the ideas that model the interactions of a multi-agent system cannot be related only to the agents and their communication skills in gaining strength, but it is necessary to use the concep...

We present a new method to stabilize the three term AVO inversion using curvelet and wavelet transforms. Curvelets are basis functions that effectively represent otherwise smooth objects having discontinuities along smooth curves. The applied formalism explores them to make the most of the continuity along reflectors in seismic images. Combined with wavelets, curvelets are used to denoise the d...