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Seismic multi-attribute analysis for fault and fracture modeling of an oil field in the South of Iran

MAJID BAGHERI1 SHAHRIYAR ASADI2 MEHDI TALKHABLOU2
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1 Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 14115-6466, Tehran, Iran.,
2 Faculty of Earth Sciences, Kharazmi University, Karaj, Iran.,
JSE 2020, 29(4), 343–362;
Submitted: 16 March 2019 | Accepted: 10 March 2020 | Published: 1 August 2020
© 2020 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Bagheri, M., Asadi, S. and Talkhablou, M., 2020. Seismic multi-attribute analysis for fault and fracture modeling of an oil field in the South of Iran. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 29: 343-362. Extracting geological features such as faults, and fractures using seismic data could be used to find a potential hydrocarbon reservoir and reduce the risk of production well drilling. The location and orientation of the faults are very central in investigating the efficiency of a reservoir. Also, identification of crushed zones and gas chimneys is necessary for reservoir modeling given the abundant fractures. Use of seismic attributes is significantly helpful to exploit faults and fractures from seismic data. In this study, the ant tracking method is employed for multi-attribute analysis to model fault and fractures from seismic data. The method is applied on an oil field in the South of Iran to find the medium-scale and large-to-small-scale fractures. The results obtained from the multi-attribute analysis for fracture extraction are then compared with the obtained results from FMI images, whereby a great coincidence is observed. It should be mentioned that the ability of extracted seismic attributes depends on what phenomenon is considered to detect and the quality of the original data. Totally, it could be concluded from the results that multi-attribute analysis via ant tracking is a powerful method for fault and fracture modeling.

Keywords
seismic attributes
fault
fracture
FMI
reservoir
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