Research on seismic fluid identification driven by rock physics

XY Yin, ZY Zong, GC Wu - Science China Earth Sciences, 2015 - Springer
Seismic fluid identification works as an effective approach to characterize the fluid feature
and distribution of the reservoir underground with seismic data. Rock physics which builds …

Shale transformations and physical properties—Implications for seismic expression of mobile shales

JI Soto, MR Hudec, NH Mondol, M Heidari - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Seismic interpretation of mobile shales is challenging, mostly because of their unclear
seismic expression. Imaging of mobile shales is difficult because of their low seismic …

P-wave seismic attenuation by slow-wave diffusion: Effects of inhomogeneous rock properties

JM Carcione, S Picotti - Geophysics, 2006 - library.seg.org
Recent research has established that the dominant P-wave attenuation mechanism in
reservoir rocks at seismic frequencies is because of wave-induced fluid flow (mesoscopic …

A laboratory investigation into the seismic velocities of methane gas hydrate‐bearing sand

JA Priest, AI Best, CRI Clayton - Journal of geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Remote seismic methods, which measure the compressional wave (P wave) velocity (Vp)
and shear wave (S wave) velocity (Vs), can be used to assess the distribution and …

Elastic velocity models for gas-hydrate-bearing sediments—A comparison

S Chand, TA Minshull, D Gei… - Geophysical Journal …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The presence of gas hydrate in oceanic sediments is mostly identified by bottom-simulating
reflectors (BSRs), reflection events with reversed polarity following the trend of the seafloor …

Physics and Seismic Modeling for Monitoring CO2 Storage

JM Carcione, S Picotti, D Gei, G Rossi - Pure and applied geophysics, 2006 - Springer
We present a new petro-elastical and numerical-simulation methodology to compute
synthetic seismograms for reservoirs subject to CO 2 sequestration. The petro-elastical …

Rock-physics templates for clay-rich source rocks

JM Carcione, P Avseth - Geophysics, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Shale source rocks are composed of various minerals, mainly smectite and illite, depending
on the burial depth, and they can be described as transversely isotropic media. The “pore …

Source-rock seismic-velocity models: Gassmann versus Backus

JM Carcione, HB Helle, P Avseth - Geophysics, 2011 - library.seg.org
Source rocks are described by a porous transversely isotropic medium composed of illite
and organic matter (kerogen, oil, and gas). The bulk modulus of the oil/gas mixture is …

Effective medium modeling of gas hydrate‐filled fractures using the sonic log in the Krishna‐Godavari basin, offshore eastern India

R Ghosh, K Sain, M Ojha - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Indian National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 01 has established that clay‐rich marine
sediment from the Krishna‐Godavari (KG) basin in the eastern Indian margin hosts one of …

Acoustic imaging of gas hydrate and free gas at the Storegga Slide

S Bünz, J Mienert - Journal of Geophysical research: Solid …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Analysis of P wave velocities of an ocean‐bottom cable (OBC) data set demonstrates the
existence of gas hydrates and free gas on the northern flank of the Storegga Slide. The …