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Volume 50, Issue 5
  • ISSN: 0812-3985
  • E-ISSN: 1834-7533

Abstract

ABSTRACT

We have studied the reflection dispersion signatures of a heterogeneously patchy saturated reservoir exhibiting attenuation and velocity dispersion in a seismic range of frequency. A modified patchy saturation model is employed to predict velocity dispersion and intrinsic attenuation behaviour associated with wave-induced pressure diffusion due to the presence of both mesoscopic and microscopic heterogeneities. Understanding the combined effects of microscopic squirt flow and wave-induced fluid flow related to mesoscopic heterogeneities on wave attenuation and associated dispersion would be important for determining the relative contribution of both of the interdependent energy loss mechanisms. The acoustic properties from the modified patchy saturation model were then employed in combination with an approximate expression for the frequency-dependent normal-incidence reflection coefficient of a dispersive reservoir rock, to give insights into the impacts of attenuation (and its associated velocity dispersion) and acoustic impedance contrast on the reflection dispersion characteristics. Analysis of the results indicates that the dispersion attribute of reflection coefficients and the associated cross-plot are more sensitive to fluid saturation and porosity than the magnitude of the reflection coefficient, and hence provide a promising approach to characterise fluid saturation and porosity in heterogeneous hydrocarbon reservoirs.

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Reflection dispersion signatures due to wave-induced pressure diffusion in heterogeneous poroelastic media
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Keyword(s): Attenuation and dispersion; fluid saturation; frequency-dependent reflectivity; mesoscopic and microscopic heterogeneity; patchy saturation

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