Seismic Propagation through a Fractured Poroelastic Reservoir

B-5 SEISMIC PROPAGATION THROUGH A FRACTURED POROELASTIC RESERVOIR Introduction 1 This work presents the preliminary results of numerical modelling in poroelastic media considering Biot’s theory for inhomogeneous media (Biot 1956; 1962) and de la Cruz and Spanos theory (1985; 1989; Hickey 1995) for a homogeneous medium. Although the ultimate goal of this research is to investigate intrinsic attenuation scattering and anisotropy induced by a fractured poroelastic model within the context of Biot’s theory compared to that of de la Cruz and Spanos (DCS) this presentation however shows only preliminary results where issues related to viscous fluid flow and attenuation; spatial