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 197 Petroleum Research, 2016-3, Vol. 26, No. 88

AVO Anomaly Class Detection and

Hydrocarbon Identification Using the
Attributes of Intercept, Gradient and
Changes in Poissonꞌs Ratio with their
Crossplots
Sadeq Rahim Bakhtiar1, Ehsan Farahbakhsh2* and Rasoul Hamidzadeh Maqadam1

Petroleum Exploration Group, Mining Engineering Department, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran

Mineral Exploration Group, Mining Engineering School, College of Engineering, University of Tehran,Tehran, Iran

Petroleum Exploration Group, Mining Engineering Department, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran

e.farahbakhsh@ut.ac.ir

Received: April/28/2014 Accepted: February/14/2015

Abstract
In petroleum industry, results from changes in seismic waves reflection amplitude
versus offset can be used in extracting elastic properties and hence lithology
and pore fluids identification in reservoirs. AVO analysis is one of the quantitative
study methods related to seismic data which is applied on pre-stack data. Before
performing AVO analysis studies, processing steps accuracy should be ensured so
that changes in reflection amplitude be only relative to changes in elastic properties
of layers. One of the major parts of AVO analysis is investigation of common AVO
attributes such as AVO intercept, AVO gradient and Poisson’s ratio or a combination
of them. The cross plot method which compares two attributes simultaneously
can play an efficient role in AVO analysis. In this study, AVO analysis is executed
on a loose and unconsolidated sand stone reservoir and well logging data were
used to calibrate real seismic data. Fluid Replacement Modeling (FRM) using well
data and Gassmann’s equation showed that AVO behavior in every conditions of
reservoir (with changes in fluid type and fluid saturation percentage) belongs to
class IV of Rutherford and William’s classification which is in consistent with real
data. Hydrocarbon boundary in seismic data which is obtained using attributes, their
cross plots and also attributes plotting as structural sections of considered horizon
is in accordance with gained location from well data.

Keywords: AVO Seismic Modeling, Fluid Replacement Modeling, AVO Anomaly, AVO Attributes, AVO Attributes

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