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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2011.44.3.229

S-wave Velocity Derivation Near the BSR Depth of the Gas-hydrate Prospect Area Using Marine Multi-component Seismic Data  

Kim, Byoung-Yeop (Petroleum & Marine Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Byun, Joong-Moo (Department of Mineral, Petroleum & Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.44, no.3, 2011 , pp. 229-238 More about this Journal
Abstract
S-wave, which provides lithology and pore fluid information, plays a key role in estimating gas-hydrate saturation. In general, P- and S-wave velocities increase in the presence of gas-hydrate and the P-wave velocity decreases in the presence of free gas under the gas-hydrate layer. Whereas there are very small changes, even slightly increases, in the S-wave velocity in the free gas layer because S-wave is not affected by the pore fluid when propagating in the free gas layer. To verify those velocity properties of the BSR (bottom-simulating reflector) depth in the gas-hydrate prospect area in the Ulleung Basin, P- and S-wave velocity profiles were derived from multi-component ocean-bottom seismic data which were acquired by Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) in May 2009. OBS (ocean-bottom seismometer) hydrophone component data were modeled and inverted first through the traveltime inversion method to derive P-wave velocity and depth model of survey area. 2-D multichannel stacked data were incorporated as an initial model. Two horizontal geophone component data, then, were polarization filtered and rotated to make radial component section. Traveltimes of main S-wave events were picked and used for forward modeling incorporating Poisson's ratio. This modeling provides S-wave profiles and Poisson's ratio profiles at every OBS site. The results shows that P-wave velocities in most OBS sites decrease beneath the BSR, whereas S-wave velocities slightly increase. Consequently, Poisson's ratio decreased strongly beneath the BSR indicating the presence of a free gas layer under the BSR.
Keywords
gas-hydrate; multi-component seismic survey; S-wave velocity; ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS); bottom-simulating reflector (BSR);
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