Phillips Petroleum Company

Kevin H Northey

Dennis B Neff

Scott A Runnestrand

In accordance with the present invention, there is disclosed herein a method of seismic interpretation that is designed to improve the quality and speed with which an explorationist can pick and interpret a seismic section or volume. The instant invention utilizes unseeded picking to create a collection of patches or areas of similar-character reflector picks. The method is unsupervised initially and builds an output database that preferably contains the time and amplitude of each &ldquo;assigned&rdquo; event, an assigned event being a seismic reflection that is determined to be similar in some sense to its neighboring traces. Then, during subsequent interpretation the explorationist quickly builds an interpretation by utilizing and selecting from the pre-assembled collections of similar traces stored in the database.

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Bartlesville, OK, United States of America

Kevin H Northey