EPSODIC VS GDGQWK CYCLIC

DEPOSOTION
SCALE OF DEPOSITION
CONTROLS

E
P
•STORMS
LAMINA I
I S •FLOODS
N LAMINASET O
D •TIDES
C
R BED I
C
E
A BEDSET
• SHIFTING SEDIMENT
S
I
PARASEQUENCE C
DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS
N Y • SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS
G
PARASEQUENCESET
C
L • LONG-TERM TECTONICS
SEQUENCE
I
C
BED VS DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES

DEPOSITIONAL
BEDS
SEQUECES

FORMATION A SINGLE EPISODE A SINGLE CYCLE

OF DEPOSITION OF DEPOSITION

BOUNDING BEDDING
SURFACES UNCONFORMITIES
PLANES

• LIMITED EXTENT • WIDESPREAD

MORPHOLOGY
• SMALL THICKNESS • THICK ENOUGH TO
•TERMINATES WHERE RESOLVE SEISMICALLY

•BEDDING SURFACES • TERMINATES AGAINST

INTERSECT UNCON-FORMITIES OR
THEIR CORRELATIVE
 SEISMIC REFLECTION
• GENERATED AT PHYSICAL SURFACES ACROSS WHICH
THERE IS A CHANGE IN IMPEDENCE

• POLARITY IS DETERMINED BY SIGN OF THE REFLECTION

COEFFCIENT

• AMPLITUDE IS A FUNCTION OF:

- MAGNITUDE OF THE REFLECTION COEFFCIENT

- SHARPNESS OF THE REFLECTION COEFFCIENT

- RESOLUTION OF THE SYSTEM

 GEOMET

ABC TECHNIQUE

EROSION ONLAP
TOPLAP
A - B DOWNLAP
CONCODANT C CONCORDANT

PARALLEL SIGMOID MOUNDED

SUBPARALLEL OBLIQUE HUMMOCKY
DIVERGENT SHINGLED DEFORMED
 DEPOSITIONAL ENERGY
HIGH LOW

DEPOSITIONAL • ACTIVE • QUIET WATER

PROCESSES

SEDIMENTARY • SORTED • POOR SORTING

FACIES
• COARSEST • FINE PRESENT
AVAILABLE GRAIN
SIZE

DIAGNOSTIC
GEOMETRIES • SHEET/DRAPE
•TOPLAB/OBLIQUE
• SIGMOID PROG.
•MOUNDS
• SLOPE FRONT FILL
EXPLORATION

•
•
REFLECTION CHARECTERISTICS AND
DEPOSITIONAL ENERGY

AMPLITUDE CONDITIONS LITHOLOGY

LOW UNIFORM MASSIVE

HIGH ALTERNATING INTERFINGERED

VARIABLE VARYING DISCONTINUOUS

CONTINUITY DEPOSITION

HIGH WIDESPREAD
 LITHOLOGY PREDICTION
I) ESTABLISH CHORONOSTRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK

• SEISMIC SEQUENCE ANALYSIS

• TIE WELL AND SEISMIC

II) DEVELOP DEPOSOTIONAL FRAMEWORK

• ANALYZE REFLECTION GEOMETRIES

• TIE WELL AND SEISMIC
• INTERPRET DEPOSITIONAL SETTING
• CALIBRATE SEISMIC FACIES
• EXTRAPOLATE AWAY FROM WELL(S)
• USE FACIES MODELS
• USE CONCEPT OF DEPOSITIONAL ENERGY
VISUAL SEISMIC SIGNATURES OF
HYDROCARBON INDICATORS
• AMPLITUDE ANOMALY

• FREQUENCY ANOMALY

• TIME SAG

• ABRUPT TERMINATIONS

• PHASE CHANGE

• FLUID CONTACT REFLECTION

• SHADOW ZONE

• CHINMEY
 PRELIMINARY EVALUATION
3-D INTERPRETATION TECHNIQUES

TECHNIQUE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

S
TRUE 3-D GRID • VERY DETAILED • VERY SLOW
• MAPS • MANY TIES
MOST ACCURATE
PICTURES OF FAULT
• PATTERNS
HIGHEST
CONFIDENCE
INTERPRETATION
 USING A STRATIGRPHIC
FRAMEWORK
STRATIGRAPHIC
ANALYSIS
FRAMEWORK

BURIAL
HISTORY
MODELING TRAP
TEMPERATURE DEVELOPMENT
HISTORY AND TIMING

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR
GENERATION PROPERTIES

PREDICTION SOURCE MIGRATION RESERVOIR SEAL TRAP

 PRELIMINARY EVALUATION
3-D INTERPRETATION TECHNIQUES

TECHNIQUES ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

• MISS STRUCTURES
• CHEAP THAT STRIKE SUB-
MANUAL • NO SPECIAL PARALLEL TO LINES
(SERIAL
EQUIPMENT
• INACCURATE 3-D TIES
OVERLAY) OF HORIZONS &
WITHOUT TIME • FAST IN STRUCTURES
SLICES, FEW STRUCTURA •
MAPPING IS
CROSS LINES LLY SIMPLE
• ADDITIONAL STEP
AREAS
CUMBERSOME
 PRELIMINARY EVALUATION
3-D INTERPRETATION TECHNIQUES

TECHNIQUES ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

MANUAL BUT WITH • EASY TO RECOGNIZE • EXPENSIVE AND SLOW TO

TIME SLICES (GS) STRUCTURES IN MOST MAKE FILM
SEISCROP ORIENTATIONS
• DIFFICULT TO TIE LINES
• ACCURATE 3-D TIES (PAPER) TO TIME SLICES
OF HORIZONS & (PROJECTED)
STRUCTURES
• NOT USABLE IN AREAS OF
• FAST WITH GOOD POOR REFLECTION
REFLECTION CONTINUITY
QONTINUITY •
CUMBERSOME
•
AMPLITUDE CONTROLS
POSITION OF TIME SLICE
PICKS