Nonstationary seismic-well tying with time-varying wavelets
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Author(s)
Cai, S
Fang, F
Wang, Y
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Seismic-well tying is an important technique for correlating well-logging curves in depth with seismic traces in time. An appropriate seismic-well tying technique must account for two types of nonstationarity: the nonstationary time errors in the synthetic seismic trace caused by the inaccurate time-depth relationship established based on sonic-logging velocity and the nonstationary seismic signals due to the time-varying wavelets during wave propagation. The nonstationary problems related to the time-depth relationship and the time-varying wavelets are interrelated in seismic-well tying procedure. We implemented a nonstationary seismic-well tying method by iteratively updating the time-depth relationship and estimating the time-varying wavelets. From the estimated time-varying wavelets, we also estimated a Q-value by assuming that the subsurface medium has a constant Q at depth and used the constant Q to constrain the variation of the seismic wavelet during propagation. Then, we used the improved time-depth relationship and time-varying wavelets with the Q constraint for further iterations. In the iterative procedure, we quantified the accuracy of the seismic-well tying result using the correlation coefficient between the synthetic and the true seismic trace in each iteration and evaluated the reliability using the normalized mean-square errors among the wavelets estimated in different iterations.
Date Issued
2023-04-12
Date Acceptance
2023-02-08
Citation
Geophysics, 2023, 88 (3), pp.M145-M155
ISSN
0016-8033
Publisher
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Start Page
M145
End Page
M155
Journal / Book Title
Geophysics
Volume
88
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2023 Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Sponsor
China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC)
Grant Number
EACPR_P76155
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Geochemistry & Geophysics
ALGORITHM
VELOCITY
SMOOTH
LOGS
0404 Geophysics
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2023-04-12