• Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.227-234
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• 2000

Amplitude anomalies or bright spots are often linked to hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs but can also be caused by tuning effect resulting from interference when two reflectors are close together. Tuning effect can be removed from amplitude maps before seismic amplitude and reservoir thickness data are converted into estimates of hydrocarbon accumulations. The most straightforward way of removing tuning effect or 'detuning' is by comparing the reservoir amplitude in seismic data with the response of wedge or thin-bed models and calibrating the reservoir amplitude using the tuning curves from the models. Volumetric estimation for amplitude plays must be based on detuned amplitude maps because hydrocarbon volumes can be significantly overestimated when conventional amplitude maps are used.