Automated seismic fault detection and picking

Details Automated seismic fault detection and picking Automated seismic fault detection and picking

1998-09-02

2000-01-25

Oda, Christine K.

Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices

Seismic prospecting

Land-reflection type

367 73, G01V 130

Patent

active

060184981

ABSTRACT:
A computer implemented method and apparatus is disclosed for automatically picking faults in a recorded 3D seismic trace data volume. The method employs test planes, which are mathematically inserted into the seismic data volume to approximate dip and azimuth of a potential fault plane surface. A large number of data points, which are selected points on the seismic traces, are defined within the seismic volume, such that each test plane positioned in the seismic volume contains data points corresponding to at least a significant portion of a trace. The method then determines a factor for each data point which is representative of the probability that the data point resides on a fault plane. This probability is based on planar discontinuity and average amplitude difference between corresponding traces in adjacent parallel test planes, and the method selects locations, in an x, y grid, of a strip of locations having high probability of residing on a fault surface. The strip of the selected locations is smoothed to a line and used to construct fault lineaments displays in seismic sections or time slices. The fault lineaments are stored in a computer data file, and conventional, stratigraphically enhanced, or other seismic data enhanced for seismic attributes is merged with the fault lineament files to create consolidated displays to aid interpretation of the data volume.

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