Quantitative fracture prediction from seismic data

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 369-377

  Endres, H ^a,b   Lohr, T ^d   Trappe, H ^a   Samiee, R ^c   Thierer, P O ^a   Krawczyk, C M ^d,e   Tanner, D C ^b,e   Oncken, O ^d   Kukla, P A ^b  

^a TEEC ^*  (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RWE POWER AG   (Germany)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherency analysis; Fractal dimension; Fracture density; Quantitative fracture prediction; Rotliegend sandstones; Seismic data; Sub seismic faults

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTURE; SANDSTONE; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRACTURE; GAS FIELD; PERMEABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR ROCK; SANDSTONE; SEISMIC DATA;

BREMEN [GERMANY]; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 55849121166     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079308-751     Document Type: Article

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