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Volume 35, Issue 5
  • ISSN: 0263-5046
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2397

Abstract

In conventional geological settings, oil companies routinely evaluate prospects for their drilling portfolio where the process of interpreting seismic amplitude anomalies as Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators (DHIs) plays an important role. DHIs are an acoustic response owing to the presence of hydrocarbons and can have a significant impact on prospect risking and determining well locations (Roden et al., 2005; Fahmy 2006; Forrest et al., 2010; Roden et al., 2012; Rudolph and Goulding, 2017). DHI anomalies are caused by changes in rock physics properties (P and S wave velocities, and density) typically of the hydrocarbon-filled reservoir in relation to the encasing rock or the brine portion of the reservoir. Examples of DHIs include bright spots, flat spots, character/phase change at a projected oil or gas/water contact, amplitude conformance to structure, and an appropriate amplitude variation with offset on gathers. Many uncertainties should be considered and analysed in the process of assigning a probability of success and resource estimate range before including a seismic amplitude anomaly prospect in an oil company’s prospect portfolio (Roden et al., 2012).

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