Seismic anisotropy in exploration and reservoir characterization: An overview

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Tsvankin, Ilya ^a   Gaiser, James ^b   Grechka, Vladimir ^c   Van der Baan, Mirko ^d   Thomsen, Leon ^e  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b Geokinetics   (United States)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e Delta Geophysics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; DATA ACQUISITION; LITHOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROCESSING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSETS; ANISOTROPY ESTIMATION; ANISOTROPY PARAMETERS; FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION; LITHOLOGY DISCRIMINATION; PRE-STACK DEPTH MIGRATIONS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

BODY WAVE; DATA INVERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE; ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; AVO METHOD; DATA PROCESSING; EXPLORATION; PRESTACK MIGRATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVE EQUATION;

EID: 84867182498     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3481775     Document Type: Article

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