3D seismic attribute-assisted fracture detection in the Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale, southwestern PA, Central Appalachian Basin

Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 82nd Annual Meeting 2012, SEG 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1033-1037

  Babarsky, Albert ^a   Gao, Dengliang ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEISMOLOGY; SHALE GAS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE ANALYSIS; APPALACHIAN BASIN; FRACTURE DETECTION; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE; SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION; UNCONVENTIONAL GAS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 85026598400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/segam2012-1227.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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