Seismic attenuation measurements from multicomponent vertical seismic profile data
Abstract
Vertical seismic pro le (VSP) data provide a means to estimate the seismic wavelet at different receiver depths. The downgoing wavefi eld has always been the key to measure attenuation (Q) and enables us to correct for the effects of seismic attenuation on seismic data. We demonstrate that we can also use the upgoing wave field to estimate Q, using reflections and mode-converted waves. In this work, Q is estimated from synthetic VSP downgoing and upgoing wavefi elds by using the spectral matching method. We also estimated Q, using the spectral matching method, from VSP data collected in a 500 m deep well in a heavy oil field and a 2000 m deep well in a shale gas play in Western Canada. For the first case, we obtained values of Qp of approximately 50 and Qs of 20 for the strata intersected by the well. For the second case, we obtained values of Qp of approximately 50 and Qs of 30. In the case of Qs estimations, our results indicate that using the upgoing converted wave field provides good estimations when downgoing S-wave are not available in the data.
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Geophysics
Citation
Montano Spagnolo, M. (2017). Seismic attenuation measurements from multicomponent vertical seismic profile data (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27735