f Cross Well Seismic Reservoir Characterization - a Case Story

A striking example of how Cross Well Seismic reflection data can help characterize a reservoir has resulted from an ongoing multi-discipline study of a carbonate reservoir offshore Dubai, U.A.E. As far as the author knows, this is the first successful example of Cross Well Seismic reflection data acquired offshore, interpreted, and used directly to modify the reservoir model. A Cross Well Seismic survey can provide multiple images such as a velocity Tomogram, P-wave reflections, and S - wave reflections. To date, Tomograms and P- wave reflections have been produced from this survey, and the reflection data has proven to be the most useful for reservoir characterization.