Attenuation tomography: An application to gas-hydrate and free-gas detection

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 655-669

  Rossi, Giuliana ^a   Gei, Davide ^a   Böhm, Gualtiero ^a   Madrussani, Gianni ^a   Carcione, José M ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAS HYDRATES; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM-SIMULATING REFLECTOR; FREQUENCY-SHIFT METHOD; INVERSION ALGORITHM; QUALITY FACTOR; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

ALGORITHM; GAS HYDRATE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAVEL TIME;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 34547891533     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2007.00646.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (51)

1. van der Baan M. 2002. Constant Q and a fractal, stratified Earth. Pure and Applied Geophysics 159, 1707-1718.
2. Ben-Menahem A. and Singh S.G. 1981. Seismic Waves and Sources. Springer Verlag, Inc.
3. Berryman J.G. 1988. Seismic wave attenuation in fluid-saturated porous media. Journal of Pure and Applied Geophysics 128, 423-432.
4. Best A.I., McCann C. and Sothcott J. 1994. The relationships between the velocities, attenuations and petrophysical properties of reservoir sedimentary rocks. Geophysical Prospecting 42, 151-178.
5. Böhm G., Accaino F., Rossi G. and Tinivella U. 2006. Tomographic joint inversion of first arrivals in a real case from Saudi Arabia. Geophysical Prospecting 54, 721-730.
6. Böhm G., Rossi G. and Vesnaver A. 1999. Minimum time ray-tracing for 3-D irregular grids. Journal of Seismic Exploration 8, 117-131.
7. Brzostowski M. and McMechan G. 1992. 3-D tomographic images of near surface seismic velocity and attenuation. Geophysics 57, 396-403.
8. Carcione J.M. 1995. Constitutive model and wave equations for linear, viscoelastic, anisotropic media. Geophysics 60, 537-548.
9. Carcione J.M. 2001. Wave Fields in Real Media. Theory and Numerical Simulation of Wave Propagation in Anisotropic, Anelastic and Porous Media. Pergamon Press, Inc.
10. Carcione J.M., Gei D., Rossi G. and Madrussani G. 2005. Estimation of gas-hydrate concentration and free-gas saturation at the Norwegian-Svalbard continental margin. Geophysical Prospecting 53, 803-810.
11. Carcione J.M. and Helle H.B. 1999. Numerical solution of the poroviscoelastic wave equation on a staggered mesh. Journal of Computional Physics 154 (2), 520-527.
12. Carcione J.M., Helle H.B. and Pham N.H. 2003. White's model for wave propagation in partially saturated rocks: Comparison with poroelastic numerical experiments. Geophysics 68, 1389-1398.
13. Carcione J.M., Helle H. and Zhao T. 1998. The effects of attenuation and anisotropy on reflection amplitude versus offset. Geophysics 63, 1652-1658.
14. Carcione J.M. and Picotti S. 2006. P-wave seismic attenuation by slow-wave diffusion. Effects of inhomogeneous rock properties. Geophysics 71, 1-8.
15. Chand S. and Minshull T.A. 2004. The effect of hydrate content on seismic attenuation: A case study for Mallik 2L-38 well data, Mackenzie delta, Canada. Geophysical Research Letters 31, L14609.
16. Chand S., Minshull T.A., Gei D. and Carcione J.M. 2004. Gas hydrate quantification through effective medium theories - a comparison. Geophysical Journal International 159, 573-590.
17. Chapman M., Liu E. and Li X.-L. 2006. The influence of fluid-sensitive dispersion and attenuation on AVO analysis. Geophysical Journal International 167, 89-105.
18. Dasgupta R. and Clark R.A. 1998. Estimation of Q from surface seismic reflection data. Geophysics 63, 2120-2128.
19. Dobroka M., Dresen L., Gelbke C. and Rüter H. 1992. Tomographic inversion of normalized data: Double trace tomography algorithms. Geophysical Prospecting 40, 1-14.
20. Forsberg C.F., Solheim A., Elverøi A., Jansen E., Channel J.E.T. and Andersen E.S. 1999. The depositional environment of the western Svalbard margin during the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene: sedimentary facies changes at site 986. In: Proceedings of ODP, Scientific Results, 162 (eds M.E. Raymo, E. Jansen, P. Blum and T.D. Herbert): College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).
21. Gardner G.H.F., Wyllie M.R.J. and Droshak D.M. 1964. Effects of pressure and fluid saturation on the attenuation of elastic waves in sands. Journal of Petroleum Technology 189-198.
22. Gei D. and Carcione J.M. 2003. Acoustic properties of sediments saturated with gas hydrate, free gas and water. Geophysical Prospecting 51, 141-157.
23. Guerin G. and Goldberg D. 2002. Sonic waveform attenuation in gas hydrate-bearing sediments from the JAPEX/JNOC/GSC Mallik 2L-38 research well, Mackenzie Delta, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research 107,.
24. Hamilton E.L. 1972. Compressional-wave attenuation in marine sediments. Geophysics 37, 620-646.
25. Hamilton E.L. 1980. Geoacoustic modelling of the sea-floor. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 68, 1313-1340.
26. Kjartansson E. 1979. Constant Q-wave propagation and attenuation. Journal of Geophysical Research 84, 4137-4748.
27. Konofagou E.E., Varghese T., Ophir J. and Alam S.K. 1999. Power spectral strain estimators in elastography. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 25, 1115-1129.
28. Leurer K.C. 1997. Attenuation in fine-grained marine sediments: extension of the Biot-Stoll model by the 'effective grain model' (EGM). Geophysics 62, 1465-1479.
29. Liu L., Lane J.W. and Quan Y. 1998. Radar attenuation tomography using the centroid frequency downshift method. Journal of Applied Geophysics 40, 105-116.
30. Mavko G.M. and Nur A. 1979. Wave attenuation in partially saturated rocks. Geophysics 44, 161-178.
31. Picotti S. and Carcione J. 2006. Estimating seismic attenuation (Q) in presence of random noise. Journal of Seismic Exploration 15, 165-181.
32. Plessix R.E. 2006. Estimation of velocity and attenuation coefficient maps from crosswell seismic data. Geophysics 71, S235-S240.
33. Priest J.A., Best A.I. and Clayton C.R.I. 2006. Attenuation of seismic waves in methane gas hydrate-bearing sand. Geophysical Journal International 164, 149-159.
34. Quan Y. and Harris J.M. 1997. Seismic attenuation tomography using the frequency shift method. Geophysics 62, 895-905.
35. Rossi G., Madrussani G., Böhm G. and Camerlenghi A. 2004. Tomographic inversion of OBS data, offshore Svalbard Islands. 66th EAGE Conference, Paris, France, Extended Abstracts, P - -218.
36. Rossi G., Madrussani G., Gei D., Böhm G. and Camerlenghi A. 2005. Velocity and attenuation 3D tomography for gas-hydrates studies: The NW offshore Svalbard case. Proceedings of the 5th ICGH, Trondheim, Norway, Paper 2040, pp. 677-682.
37. Roth E.G., Wiens D.A., Dorman L.M., Hildebrand J. and Webb S.C. 1999. Seismic attenuation tomography of the Tonga-Fiji region using phase pair methods. Journal of Geophysical Research 104, 4795-4809.
38. van der Sluis A. and van der Vorst H.A. 1987. Numerical solution of large sparse linear algebraic systems arising from tomographic problems. In: Seismic Tomogrophy (ed. G. Nolet), pp. 49-83. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht.
39. Spakman W. and Nolet G. 1988. Imaging algorithms, accuracy and resolution in delay time tomography. In: Mathematical Geophysics (eds N.J. Vlaar, G. Nolet, M.J.R. Wortel and S.A.P.L. Cloetingh), pp. 155-187. D. Reidel Publishing Co.
40. Vanneste M., Guidard S. and Mienert J. 2005. Arctic gas hydrate provinces along the western Svalbard continental margin. In: Onshore-Offshore Relationships on the North Atlantic Margin (eds B.T.G. Wandås, E. Eide, F. Gradstein and J.P. Nystuen), pp. 271-284. Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF), Special Publication. Elsevier Science Publishing Co.
41. Vesnaver A. 1994. Towards the uniqueness of tomographic inversion solutions. Journal of Seismic Exploration 3, 323-334.
42. Vesnaver A. and Böhm G. 2000. Staggered or adapted grids for seismic tomography? The Leading Edge 19, 944-950.
43. Vesnaver A., Böhm G., Madrussani G., Petersen S. and Rossi G. 1999. Tomographic imaging by reflected and refracted arrivals at the North Sea. Geophysics 64, 1852-1862.
44. Vesnaver A. Böhm G. Madrussani G., Rossi G. and Granser H. 2000. Depth imaging and velocity calibration by 3D adaptive tomography. First Break 18, 303-312.
45. Westbrook G.K., Buenz S., Camerlenghi A., Carcione J.M., Chand S., Dean S., Foucher J.-P., Flueh E., Gei D., Haacke R., Klingenhoefer F., Long C., Madrussani G., Mienert J., Minshull T.A., Nouzé H., Peacock S., Rossi G., Roux E., Reston T., Vanneste M. and Zillmer M. 2005. Measurements of P- and S- wave velocities, and the estimation of hydrate concentration at sites in the continental margin of Svalbard and the Storegga region of Norway. Proceedings of the 5th ICGH, Trondheim, Norway, Paper 3004, pp. 726-735.
46. Wood W.T., Holbrook W.S. and Hoskins H. 2000. In situ measurements of P-wave attenuation in the methane hydrate and gas bearing sediments of the Blake Ridge. In: Proceedings of ODP, Scientific Results, 164 (eds C.K. Paull, R. Matsumoto and P. Wallace) College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).
47. Wyllie M.R.J., Gardner H.F. and Gregory A.R. 1962. Studies of elastic wave attenuation in porous media. Geophysics 27, 569-589.
48. Wyllie M.R.J., Gardner H.F. and Gregory A.R. 1963. Addendum to "Studies of elastic wave attenuation in porous media" by M.R.J. Wyllie, G.H.F. Gardner, and A.R. Gregory (Geophysics, 27, 569-589), Geophysics 28, 1074.
49. Zelt C.A. and Smith R.B. 1992. Seismic traveltime inversion for a 2-D crustal velocity structure. Geophysical Journal International 108, 16-34.
50. Zener C. 1948. Elasticity and Inelasticity of Metals. University of Chicago Press.
51. Zucca J.J., Hutchings L.J. and Kasameyer P.W. 1994. Seismic velocity and attenuation structure of the geysers geothermal field, California. Geothermics 23, 111-126.