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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2010
Interactive structural restoration while interpreting seismic volumes for structure and stratigraphy
Randolph E. F. Pepper, Beijing, CN;
Agnes Dubois, La Ferte Saint Cyr, FR;
Jimmy Klinger, Stavanger, NO;
Randolph E. F. Pepper, Beijing, CN;
Agnes Dubois, La Ferte Saint Cyr, FR;
Jimmy Klinger, Stavanger, NO;
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for performing seismic interpretation of a subterranean formation by enabling dual-domain interpretation of seismic features in the present day depth domain and simultaneously in a structurally restored 'mapped' seismic domain. Specifically, seismic interpretation is performed on structurally restored seismic volumes while concurrently viewing the interpretation results in the structural domain. This increases the interpretation confidence by improved correlation of structural deformed events to their pre-structurally deformed geometry. The method includes the ability to progressively remove structural deformation from the seismic volume, corresponding to moving back in geologic time. The interpretation can be performed in either domain (present-day structure or structurally restored to a defined geologic event), and the interpretation will be mapped to any other computed geologic age or present structural age.