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Study on the Limitation of AVO Responses Shown in the Seismic Data from East-sea Gas Reservoir  

Shin, Seung-Il (Department of Geoenvironmental System Engineering, Hanyang University)
Byun, Joong-Moo (Department of Geoenvironmental System Engineering, Hanyang University)
Choi, Hyung-Wook (Department of Geoenvironmental System Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kim, Kun-Deuk (Korea National Oil Corporation, Petroleum Technology Institute)
Ko, Seung-Won (Korea National Oil Corporation, Petroleum Technology Institute)
Seo, Young-Tak (Korea National Oil Corporation, Petroleum Technology Institute)
Cha, Young-Ho (Energy Resources Engineering, Seoul National University)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.11, no.3, 2008 , pp. 242-249 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, AVO analysis has been widely used in oil exploration with seismic subsurface section as a direct indicator of the existence of the gas. In the case of the deep reservoirs like the gas reservoirs in the East-sea, it is often difficult to observe AVO responses in CMP gathers even though the bright spots are shown in the stacked section. Because the reservoir becomes more consolidated as its depth deepens, P-wave velocity does not decrease significantly when the pore fluid is replaced by the gas. Thus the difference in Poisson's ratio, which is a key factor for AVO response, between the reservoir and the layer above it does not increase significantly. In this study, we analyzed the effects of Poisson's ratio difference on AVO response with a variety of Poisson's ratios for the upper and lower layers. The results show that, as the difference in Poisson's ratio between the upper and lower layers decreases, the change in the reflection amplitude with incidence angle decreases and AVO responses become insignificant. To consider the limitation of AVO responses shown in the gas reservoir in East-sea, the velocity model was made by simulation Gorae V structure with seismic data and well logs. The results of comparing AVO responses observed from the synthetic data with theoretical AVO responses calculated by using material properties show that the amount of the change in reflection amplitude with increasing incident angle is very small when the difference in Poisson's ratio between the upper and lower layers is small. In addition, the characteristics of AVO responses were concealed by noise or amplitude distortion arisen during preprocessing. To overcome such limitations of AVO analysis of the data from deep reservoirs, we need to acquire precisely reflection amplltudes In data acquisition stage and use processing tools which preserve reflection amplitude in data processing stage.
Keywords
AVO analysis; East-sea gas reservoir; Deep reservoir;
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