Case Study

Geological Classification of Jurassic Sediments (Western Siberia)

PMDI subsystem enabled to locate upper Jurassic traps and analyze prospects for middle and lower Jurassic formations. Interpretation of  the section was part of a project which should provide exploration drilling decisions.

The seismic section used was shot and processed in 1988. In the section, the Upper Jurassic Vasyugan formation corresponds only to one half of the seismic wave period from 2000 to 2050 ms at CDP 80. The sampling interval was 4 ms, and was considered not enough for stratification of Vasyugan formation. Tracing of Tyumen layers (from 2050 to 2150 ms at CDP 80) could hardly be done with the initial seismic section since a lot of faults affected the horizons.

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In the next figure you can see the result of section classification into 11 classes with the Classification program. Instant amplitudes, frequencies and phases together with coherent filtering results and low frequency component of the initial section, formed the best Multi-D attributes used for the classification.

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The complicated structure of Vasyugan formation can be analyzed with this classified section. The increased resolution  with PMDI software, allows to trace and delineate overlapping sand lenses (yellow and red classes) which are down to 1-2 sampling intervals high and several group intervals long. (The vertical size of the picture "grain" at the figure is one sampling interval whereas the horizontal size is 1 group interval). We can easily correlate the dark and light blue classes to non permeable layers of shale and argillites without any well log data control. Vasyugan formation lithology changes to the right from the fault at CDP 275. Since there are features in Tyumen formation belonging to the same classes as the traps in Vasyugan formation, that allows forecasting porous rocks (classes 2 and 3) and seals (classes 9 and 11). However, as Tyumen layer is fractured by many faults, no big hopes concerning large accumulations and significant reserves are left.

 

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