Orientador: Rodrigo de Souza Portugal / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T15:44:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cypriano_LuisFernandoKatsudaIto_M.pdf: 3729581 bytes, checksum: 3c24bb11c96e5ce9e394fb618e43ea9c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: A maioria dos métodos de imageamento de subsuperfície aplicados em projetos de Exploração e Produção (E&P) de hidrocarbonetos assume o meio elástico isotrópico (ISO). Os meios isotrópicos, em contrapartida aos modelos anisotrópicos, são aqueles cujas velocidades das ondas sísmicas não dependem da direção de propagação. Entretanto, muitas rochas obtidas de testemunhos apresentam anisotropia. Logo, é natural que estudos dos meios anisotrópicos sejam feitos com o intuito de aumentar a precisão do imageamento sísmico. As anisotropias são classificadas de acordo com as simetrias apresentadas. As simetrias mais comuns em exploração de hidrocarbonetos são as simetrias transversalmente isotrópicas (TI) e ortorrômbicas (ORT). Quando uma onda impinge uma interface são geradas ondas refletidas e transmitidas. A razão entre as amplitudes dos vetores de deslocamento da onda incidente em relação às ondas geradas são os coeficientes de reflexão/ transmissão (R/T) de deslocamento. Os coeficientes R/T podem ser expressos explicitamente por fórmulas apenas em casos de alta simetria, por exemplo, isotrópica. Caso contrário os coeficientes R/T devem ser obtidos de um sistema de equações algébricas lineares obtidas das condições de contorno na interface. Neste trabalho desenvolvemos um código para calcular os coeficientes de reflexão e transmissão (R/T) para interfaces entre meios anisotrópicos. Dois critérios para a distinção das ondas geradas na interface são adotados em adição ao critério convencional da literatura. As simetrias utilizadas para os testes sintéticos foram as simetrias ISO, TI e ORT. O testes exemplificam algumas características básicas dos coeficientes R/T, como equivalência entre interfaces e simetrias inclinadas e a reciprocidade dos coeficientes normalizados pela energia / Abstract: The great majority of the methods for imaging subsurface invested in hydrocarbons Exploration and Production (E&P) assumes isotropic elastic medium (ISO). The isotropic models are those which velocities of seismic waves do not depend on the direction of propagation. However many core rocks exhibit anisotropy. Thus, the assumption of anisotropic media is natural in order to increase the accuracy of seismic imaging. The anisotropies are classified according to their symmetries. The most common symmetries in hydrocarbon E&P are the transversely isotropic (TI) and orthorhombic (ORT) symmetries. When a seismic wave impinges at an interface between two media, it generates reflected and transmitted waves. The ratio between the amplitudes of displacement vectors of the incident and the generated waves are the displacement reflection/transmission (R/T) coefficients. The R/T coefficients can be expressed by explicit formulas in cases of higher symmetries, e.g. isotropy. Otherwise they are obtained numerically from a system of inhomogeneous linear algebraic equations derived from the boundary conditions in the interface. We develop a code to evaluate the R/T coefficients interfaces between two anisotropic media. We adopt two criteria in addition to the conventional one for distinguishing the generated waves. The symmetries used for the synthetic tests were symmetries ISO, TI and ORT. The tests illustrate some basic characteristics of the R/T coefficients, as equivalence between tilted symmetries and interfaces, and the reciprocal of the energy normalized R/T coefficients / Mestrado / Reservatórios e Gestão / Mestre em Ciências e Engenharia de Petróleo

Orientador: Martin Tygel / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica e Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T04:02:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RuedaSerrano_Dany_M.pdf: 36981147 bytes, checksum: 4818cdd1a4fd5bda74072b4e6d58a7ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A razão sinal-ruído, geralmente abreviada por razão S/N (do Inglês signal-to-noise ratio) é bastante afetada por ruídos aleatórios, os quais degradam a continuidade e identificação de refletores, com prejuízos para interpretação geológica. Com vistas à superação dessas dificuldades, apresentamos neste trabalho uma técnica baseado na suavização de parâmetros obtidos pela aplicação do método de empilhamento Common-Reection-Surface (CRS). A suavização é realizada através da utilização de estatísticas locais em pequenas janelas alinhadas com os eventos de reflexão. Primeiramente, os parâmetros CRS são estimados através de uma aplicação convencional do método CRS. Em seguida, os parâmetros CRS são suavizados de modo a eliminar flutuações e valores espúrios. Finalmente, os dados originais são submetidos a um novo empilhamento CRS, com utilização dos parâmetros suavizados recém obtidos. O processo pode ser aplicado de maneira iterativa para otimização de resultados. O esquema proposto foi aplicado em um dois conjuntos de dados marítimos 2D, um sintético e um de campo. No dado sintético, obtivemos uma efetiva atenuação do ruído aleatório com significativa ênfase dos eventos de reflexão. A aplicação nos dados de campo resultou num significativo increment da razão S/N com consequente ênfase e aumento de continuidade dos refletores. A interpretação sísmica dos elementos estratigráficos tornou-se mais precisa na seção pós-migrada em tempo (PostSTM) correspondente ao método CRS. A seção migrada foi obtida com a utilização dos parâmetros suavizados em conjunto com um guia de velocidade / Abstract: Signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio in seismic data is affected by random noise, influencing the continuity and identification of reflectors. In this work, I present a method to overcome this problem based on smoothing Common-Reflection-Surface (CRS) parameters through application of local statistics in small windows aligned with reflection events. First, the CRS parameters are obtained by a standard application of the CRS stack method. Subsequently, the CRS parameters are smoothed so as to eliminate fluctuations and outliers. Finally, a CRS stack is performed with the new, smoothed parameters. The process may be iterative, to achieve optimal results. The proposed scheme has been applied on a 2D synthetic data set and marine field data. The synthetic data application showed effective random noise attenuation plus highlighting of the reflection events. Application to the real marine data resulted in an increase of S/N ratio with consequent highlight and greater continuity of the reflections. The seismic interpretation of stratigraphic elements has been more precise in the PostSTM section related with the CRS stack method. It is performed using smoothed attributes and a velocity model as a guide / Mestrado / Reservatórios e Gestão / Mestre em Ciências e Engenharia de Petróleo

Geophysical investigation of the subsurface through seismic refraction and reflection methods provides an efficient and non-invasive means towards addressing geologic problems across multiple scales. Both seismic techniques, in an active-source exploration setting, involve inducing acoustic waves into the subsurface and measuring their propagation velocities and amplitudes. These measurements have physically-based relationships with the properties of the underlying strata, thus allowing changes in the seismic measurements to be interpreted with respect to changes in the subsurface geology. Two applications of the seismic method are presented in this dissertation: (1) shallow seismic refraction acquisition and processing applied to the near-surface investigations of soil and regolith, which constitute the Critical Zone (CZ), beneath the upland hillslopes of the Valles Caldera, New Mexico; (2) interpretation of 2-D and 3-D marine seismic reflection data that image the upper 10-km of the crust beneath the Southern Guinea Plateau, offshore Guinea, West Africa. In both cases, the seismic data provide necessary constraints for the generation of accurate subsurface models that permit further geophysical modeling. The near-surface results, presented in Appendix A, provided a rich dataset of weathered thicknesses across hillslopes that supported an investigation of potential relationships between CZ geologic architecture and topographic attributes. Quantified relationships suggest that calibrated predictions based on the topography can provide first-order estimates of regolith thickness across upland landscapes. These results add to the ongoing CZ-science endeavor to understand proposed links between subsurface weathering processes and their surface expressions. In Appendix B, interpretations of high-resolution 3-D seismic data have illuminated deformational structures associated with Mesozoic rifting of the Southern Guinea Plateau. The interpretations were expanded onto regional 2-D seismic profiles, permitting a regional synthesis of the southern margin’s structural evolution. Additional tectonic subsidence and forward-gravity modeling highlight the influence of Jurassic rifting on the Southern Guinea Plateau prior to Early-Cretaceous rifting and separation, as well as crustal thickness estimates from the continental shelf out towards oceanic crust. Lastly, the Guinea-Demerara conjugate plateaus, and their associated deformations, were restored to 100 Ma, revealing an apparent upper-crustal asymmetry between the two margins. Appendix C presents two seismic-exploration methodologies based on 3-D seismic reflection data: (1) the calculation and interpretation of two co-rendered volumetric seismic attributes – most-positive curvature and semblance; (2) numerically modeling the tectonic subsidence of an entire 3-D seismic survey. Both techniques are used to address the inherent difficulty in interpreting the extent to which Jurassic rifting affected the Southern Guinea Plateau. Furthermore, the numerical model of subsidence provides a new exploration technique towards qualitatively and quantitatively assisting in the assessment of potential hydrocarbon-bearing basins.

University of Macau / Faculty of Science and Technology / Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Reflectivity images of the lower crust and uppermost mantle beneath the Illinois basin have been derived from reprocessing of several hundred kilometers of industry seismic reflection data using extended vibroseis recorrelation. The recorrelation was based on extending an originally 4-s correlated record, acquired with a 16-s sweep from 14 to 126 Hz, to the absolute limit of the full 20 s (~70 km) listening travel time. The reconstructed bandwidth includes frequency components suitable for imaging structures from signals received from both sedimentary basin reflectors and those received from reflectors in the deep crust and upper mantle. Mantle and sub-Moho reflectors are imaged down to 18 s two-way travel time (~62 km) and are observed on intersecting profiles generally dipping to the southwest and striking northwest-southeast. Occasional Moho reflections are also observed across the profiles (~12 s or ~38 km) while reflectivity in the lower crust is generally marked by intermittent horizontal packages and short, gently dipping reflections and diffraction segments. The presence of newly observed mantle reflectivity beneath the Illinois basin indicates significant upper mantle heterogeneity, relative to other parts of the USA studied using reflection methods. The relatively isolated occurrence of mantle reflections beneath the basin makes it difficult to uniquely infer their origin. However, available geologic and geophysical constraints, especially from geochemical and geochronological studies of drilled basement rocks, effectively limit the possibilities to: (1) remnants or "scars" of sub-crustal processes associated with lithospheric extension or delamination related to the melting of the Proterozoic crust that led to the emplacement of the granite--rhyolite province that underlies much of USA Midcontinent; or (2) deformation caused by plate subduction associated with the hypothetical accretion of a juvenile arc to the pre-1.6 Ga southern margin of the Laurentian continent.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, 1980. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Bibliography: p. 142-149. / by Douglas Robert Nathan. / M.S.

M. S.

Reflection seismic data, mylonite reflectivity, gravity data, and earthquake hypocenters have been integrated into a possible explanation for seismicity in the Ramapo fault area. Seven reflection seismic lines were processed using variations in sorting and residual statics. Single VIBROSEIS sweeps were treated as separate sourcepoints. Compressional velocities and densities were determined in the laboratory. Reflection coefficients and gravity models provide evidence for reflections from mylonite zones. Earthquake hypocenters were projected into the vertical seismic sections. The results suggest a correlation between rock volumes containing hypocenters and rock volumes containing mylonite zones. The seismic line furthest from the Taconic suture displays fewer hypocenters and mylonites, in agreement with an assumed model of mylonite development possibly associated with obduction of continental crust. The mylonite zones in the basement may serve as local areas of crustal weakness for seismic activity occurring in the area. / Master of Science

A method of cepstrum analysis is developed for the purpose of resolving thin-beds. The method relies on the detection of periodic pulses of the cepstra of reflectivity functions, which are isolated by computing a sub-cepstrum and a sum-cepstrum, and highlighted with a discriminator, where the sub-cepstrum of the functions f₁(t) and f₂(t) is the difference between the cepstra of the two functions, the sum-cepstrum of f₁(t) is the sum of the sub-cepstra of f₁(t) and f_k(t), k=2,3,4,... , and the discriminator is the product of the sum-cepstrum and the autocovariance of the sum-cepstrum. The technique requires at least two reflected wavelets generated by the same source. The method was applied to synthetic thin lens models. The method is shown to be sensitive to the ratio of the reflection coefficients at the top and bottom of the thin-bed. Specifically, the resolution depends on the ratio of the reflection coefficients. Optimum resolution is achieved when the reflection coefficients at the top and bottom of the thin-bed are equal in absolute magnitude. In addition, in the noise-free case, the absolute magnitude of the cepstral pulses can be used to determine the absolute magnitude of the ratio of the reflection coefficients. The technique is also sensitive to the sample interval used. The finest sample interval provides the best resolution because it produces the sharpest cepstral pulses and resolves the thinnest beds. The resolution of the method is drastically reduced by random noise, although thin-bed thicknesses are still detectable when the S/N of the synthetic seismic section is 15/1 and the upper frequency of the bandwidth of the noise is 1.1 octaves above the upper frequency of the bandwidth of the source wavelet. / Master of Science

Reprocessing of Appalachian Ultradeep Core Hole (ADCOH) southern Appalachian seismic reflection data was focused on improving the reflection imaging and hence interpretability of seismic signatures previously interpreted as duplexes created by thrust stacking of thin beds of Paleozoic shelf strata. The reprocessed data are used to determine a more unique depth domain geometry for one of the proposed duplexes. Reprocessed data are partially improved through an increase in both stacking velocity coverage and datum statics velocity coverage as well as an appropriate use of residual statics. Interpretability increases from the improvement in resolution and the consideration of geologic strike direction relative to profile direction. Initial shotpoint ray trace modeling shows the chaotic nature of raypaths and some of the problems associated with the imaging of reflections when complex geology is involved. Data reprocessing and two-dimensional ray trace modeling yield results which suggest that the studied seismic signature is part of a broad hinterland-dipping duplex. At the trailing edge of the duplex itself beds appear to be successively fault truncated, perhaps explaining the increased amplitude and reflectivity in this zone. The truncations result in a wedge-shaped geometry that resembles the trailing edge of an antiformal stack duplex. The improved data also show 1) a shallow band of reflections that correlate with the Shope Fork and Chunky Gal Mountain faults within the Blue Ridge allochthon, 2) thrust ramping initiated by basement faulting that extends only a short distance into the overlying sedimentary strata, 3) a more highly faulted Grenville basement surface and, 4) almost intact Paleozoic shelf strata (?) being carried along the thrust surface serving and bounding the hinterland-dipping duplex. / M.S.