Non-linear imaging condition to image fractures as non-welded interfaces

Hydraulic properties of a fractured reservoir are often controlled by large fractures. In order to seismically detect and characterize them, a high-resolution imaging method is necessary. We apply a non-linear imaging condition to image fractures, considered as non-welded interfaces. We derive the imaging condition from the general correlation...

Application of the new Gassmann theory in seismic modeling of selected gas reservoirs, offshore Netherlands

In the Southern North Sea, Buntsandstein reservoirs which, can be gas- or water-bearing, frequently contain solid (salt) in the pores spaces. Recent literatures on extension of the Gassmann equation investigate the substitution of fluids and solids in the pore space of reservoir rock. Conventional substitution (fluids only) is described by the...

Flux-normalized elastodynamic wavefield decomposition using only particle velocity recordings

We present a new approach to apply wavefield decomposition, illustrated for an energy flux-normalized elastodynamic case. We start by considering a situation where two horizontal boreholes are closely separated from each other. By recording only the particle velocities at both depth levels (for example with conventional 3-component geophones)...

Decoupling of elastic parameters with iterative linearized inversion

Three model parameters as a function of position describe wave propagation in an isotropic elastic medium. Ideally, imaging of data for a point scatterer that consists of a perturbation in one of the elastic parameters should only provide a reconstruction of that perturbation, without cross-talk into the other parameters. This is not the case...

Ultrasonic wave propagation in heterogeneous elastic and poroelastic media

The influence of small- and large-scale heterogeneities on an incident wavefield was investigated in ultrasonic experiments. The field generated by conventional piezoelectric transducers was investigated separately. It was confirmed that the far-field diffraction was correctly predicted by Fraunhofer theory, but that the near-field diffraction...