Fractures detection using multi-azimuth diffractions focusing measure: Is it feasible?

Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 80th Annual Meeting 2010, SEG 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 287-291

  Al Dajani, Abdulfattah ^a   Fomel, Sergey ^b  

^a SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; AZIMUTHAL VARIATIONS; CARBONATE RESERVOIR; FRACTURE DETECTION; NORMAL MOVEOUT (NMO); PLANE WAVE DESTRUCTIONS; VELOCITY ANALYSIS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 85019897097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3513443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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