Seismic fracture characterization : concepts and practical applications

During the last three decades, seismic anisotropy has evolved from a purely academic research topic into applications in the mainstream of applied geophysics. Today, nobody doubts that the earth is anisotropic and most (if not all) hydrocarbon reservoirs are anisotropic. Since shale accounts for 70%...

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Main Authors Liu, Enru (Author), Martinez, Alex (Of ExxonMobil) (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Houten, The Netherlands : EAGE Publications, 2012.
Subjects
Seismology.
Rock deformation.
Rock mechanics.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789073834408
9073834406
9781680156997
1680156993
Physical Description1 online resource

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Fundamentals of seismic anisotropy
  • Equivalent medium modelling of fractured rock
  • Estimation of fracture parameters from azimuthal analysis of P-wave data
  • Multicomponent seismology and its application to fracture characterization
  • Fracture detection using 3D seismic data : physical laboratory studies
  • Mitigation of overburden effects in azimuthal AVO analysis of a Middle East carbonate field
  • Integrated study of fracture characterization of a tight gas reservoir using 3C-3D seismic data at Piceance Basin, Colorado, USA
  • Summary and road ahead.
  • Appendices: The two-index notation of elastic tensors ; Wave propagation in anisotropic media ; Effective elastic constants of cracked media: Hudson's model ; Plane wave reflection and transmission coefficients in anisotropic media: Schoenberg and Protazio algorithm.

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