Differentiating between potential reservoirs and hardrock with a holistic quantitative seismic interpretation method

Abstract

Easily recognized bright events on seismic data can infer a host of phenomena; ranging from lithology interplay to indicating lucrative prospects in relatively greenfield settings. The availability of seismic angle stacks afford the petroleum explorationist more options to reduce obviously incorrect conclusions and help to identify the more likely cases of these bright events within the seismic data. A combination of simultaneous seismic inversion and far and near angle stack comparisons gave more confident deductions on certain recognized seismic features as well as identifying potential interesting prospects to pursue and study in the context of petroleum exploration in that area. We present some examples of features that were identified on seismic data and sought to deduce their prospectivities.