Estimation of anisotropy of seismic response from fractured geological objects

Golubev V.I., Khokhlov N.I.
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Seismic survey process is the common method of prospecting and exploration of deposits: oil and natural gas. Invented at the beginning of the XX century, it has received significant development and is currently used by almost all service oil companies. Its main advantages are the acceptable cost of fieldwork (in comparison with drilling wells) and the accuracy of estimating the characteristics of the subsurface area. However, with the discovery of non-traditional deposits (for example, the Arctic shelf, the Bazhenov Formation), the task of improving existing and creating new seismic data processing technologies became important. Significant development in this direction is possible with the use of numerical simulation of the propagation of seismic waves in realistic models of the geological medium, since it is possible to specify an arbitrary internal structure of the medium with subsequent evaluation of the synthetic signal-response.

The present work is devoted to the study of spatial dynamic processes occurring in geological medium containing fractured inclusions in the process of seismic exploration. The authors constructed a three-dimensional model of a layered massif containing a layer of fluid-saturated cracks, which makes it possible to estimate the signal-response when the structure of the inhomogeneous inclusion is varied. To describe physical processes, we use a system of equations for a linearly elastic body in partial derivatives of the second order, which is solved numerically by a grid-characteristic method on hexahedral grid. In this case, the crack planes are identified at the stage of constructing the grid, and further an additional correction is used to ensure a correct seismic response for the model parameters typical for geological media.

In the paper, three-component area seismograms with a common explosion point were obtained. On their basis, the effect of the structure of a fractured medium on the anisotropy of the seismic response recorded on the day surface at a different distance from the source was estimated. It is established that the kinematic characteristics of the signal remain constant, while the dynamic characteristics for ordered and disordered models can differ by tens of percents.

Keywords: seismic survey process, geological cracks, seismic signal anisotropy, mathematical simulation, numerical methods, grid-characteristic method
Citation in English: Golubev V.I., Khokhlov N.I. Estimation of anisotropy of seismic response from fractured geological objects // Computer Research and Modeling, 2018, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 231-240
Citation in English: Golubev V.I., Khokhlov N.I. Estimation of anisotropy of seismic response from fractured geological objects // Computer Research and Modeling, 2018, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 231-240
DOI: 10.20537/2076-7633-2018-10-2-231-240
URL: http://crm-en.ics.org.ru/journal/article/2679/
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