Waveform-based AVO inversion and AVO prediction-error

Geophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1575-1588

  Simmons Jr , James L ^a,b   Backus, Milo M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSET (AVO); COMPRESSIONAL WAVES; GARDNER'S EQUATION; HYDROCARBON DETECTION; LINEAR PRESTACK SEISMIC INVERSION; MUDROCK CURVE; PREDICTION ERROR PARAMETERS; REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; ZOEPPRITZ EQUATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

AVO; HYDROCARBON; INVERSION; MUDSTONE; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

EID: 0030291060     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444077     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Aki, K., and Richards, P. G., 1980. Quantitative seismology, Theory and methods: W. H. Freeman & Co. (2 volumes).
2. Assous, F., Chalindar, B., and Collino, F., 1989, Nonlinear elastic inversion of prestack marine seismic data: Proc. IEEE, 77, 877-890.
3. Backus, M. M., and Chen, R. L., 1975, Flat spot exploration: Geophys. Prosp., 23, 533-577.
4. Backus, M. M., and Simmons, J. L., Jr., 1984, Multiple reflections as an additive noise limitation in seismic reflection work: Proc. IEEE, 72, 1370-1384.
5. Blangy, J. P., 1994, AVO in transversely isotropic media - An overview: Geophysics, 59, 775-781.
6. Castagna, J. P., Batzle, M., and Eastwood, R., 1985, Relationships between compressional-wave and shear-wave velocities in clastic silicate rocks: Geophysics, 50, 571-581.
7. Chiburis, E.F., 1987, Studies of amplitude versus offset in Saudi Arabia: 57th Ann. Internat. Mtg., Soc. Expl. Geophys., Expanded Abstracts, 614-616.
8. Claerbout, J. F., 1985, Imaging the earth's interior: Blackwell Scientific Publications, Inc.
9. Clayton, R. W., and Stolt, R. H., 1981, A Born-WKBJ inversion method for acoustic reflection data: Geophysics, 46, 1559-1567.
10. Drufuca, G., and Mazzotti, A., 1995, Ambiguities in AVO inversion of reflections from a gas sand: Geophysics, 60, 134-141.
11. Fatti, J. L., Vail, P. J., Smith, G. C., Strauss, P. J., and Levitt, P. R., 1994, Detection of gas in sandstone reservoirs using AVO analysis: A 3-D seismic case history using the Geostack Technique: Geophysics, 59, 1362-1376.
12. Gardner, G. H. F., Gardner, L. F., and Gregory, A. F., 1974, Formation velocity and density - the diagnostic basis for stratigraphic traps: Geophysics, 39, 770-780.
13. Huston, D. C. and Backus, M. M., 1989, Offset-dependent mis-tie analysis at seismic line intersections: Geophysics, 54, 962-972.
14. McAulay, A. D., 1985, Prestack inversion with plane-layer point source modeling: Geophysics, 50, 77-89.
15. Mora, P., 1987, Elastic wavefield inversion: Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University.
16. Pica, A., Diet, J. P., and Tarantola, A., 1990, Nonlinear inversion of seismic reflection data in a laterally invariant medium: Geophysics, 55, 284-292.
17. Sherwood, J. W. C. Hilterman, F. J., Neale, R. N., and Chen, K. C., 1983. Synthetic seismogram with offset for a layered elastic medium: Presented at the 15th Offshore Technology Conference.
18. Simmons, J. L., Jr., 1994, Practical seismic inversion: Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin.
19. Simmons, J. L., Jr., and Backus, M. M., 1992, Linearized tomographic inversion of first-arrival times: Geophysics, 57, 1482-1492.
20. _ 1994. AVO modeling and the locally converted shear waveGeophysics, 59, 1237-1248.
21. _ 1996, A matched filter approach to impedance estimation: Geophysics, 61, 484-495.
22. Smith, G. G., and Gidlow, P. M., 1987, Weighted stacking for rock property estimation and detection of gas: Geophys. Prosp., 35, 993-1014.
23. Stolt, R. H., and Weglein, A. B., 1985, Migration and inversion of seismic data: Geophysics, 50, 2458-2472.
24. Tarantola, A., 1987, Inverse problem theory, methods for data fitting and model parameter estimation; Elsevier Science Publication Co Inc.
25. Todd. C. P., and Backus, M. M., 1985, Offset dependent reflectivity in a structural context: 55th Ann. Internat. Mtg., Soc. Expl. Geophys., Expanded Abstracts, 586-588.
26. Tsai, C. C., and James, 1981, Limitations of marine seismic profiling for deep crustal reflections and reduction of water-bottom multiples and scattered noise from the rough basaltic basement: Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin.
27. Wang, D., 1990, Analysis of factors controlling the resolution of P-wave velocity and density in linearized least-squares inversion: Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin.
28. Wiggins, R., Kenny, G. S., and McClure, C. D., 1984, A method for determining and displaying the shear-wave reflectivity of a geologic formation: European Patent application #833002270.2, 84/30, July 25.
29. Wood, W., 1993. Least-squares inversion of field seismic data for an elastic 1-D earth: Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin.