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To acquire
information accurately, various
exploration techniques are used.
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to speculate where from the North America, the Middle East (Iran
hydrocarbons are reaching to the and Iraq), Indonesia, India, North
surface. Sea, Bass Strait, the Gulf of Mexico
etc.
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Stdies help
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Preparation of Geological Map of the area Preparation of Geological Map of the Area
What are Geological Maps? At present, GIS has brought new aspects in
preparing Geologic Maps by providing
Depiction of 3-D Geological software tools (e.g.Rockware Software) that
Features from surface or Ground help in giving the geometry (disposition) &
Geology in a 2 - Dimensional characteristics of rock bodies, structures
etc. quickly for larger area.
plane.
Remote Sensing Products are used as
Geological maps depict tools to provide information of large areas
observations and interpretations in less time.
using symbols and colours.
Rockware Software
Contour maps
A Regional Geological Map gives the
Cross- sections spatial distribution of sedimentary
Three- dimensional models rocks or sedimentary basins and
geologic maps
other essential features that help in
trapping the hydrocarbons after its
Site characterization and
formation and migration (in a large
visualization of subsurface data and
area).
surface features such as building,
tanks, property boundaries and
aerial photos etc.
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Magnetic Methods:
Magnetic Method
The magnetometer is very sensitive
to rocks containing a very magnetic
mineral called magnetite.
An actual
If a large mass of magnetite bearing magnetometer.
rock occurs near the surface, it is
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detected by a large magnetic force
than normal value ( regional value) .
It can be also used to locate faults
that displace basement rock.
Magnetic Method
Magnetic
Field
Variation
graph
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Seismic Methods
Seismic Method
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Source
geophone
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3D LAYOUT For 3-D data the bin is the basic building block for the rest of the survey
GATHER TYPES
PROCESSING
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MULTIPLEXER
AMPLITUDE CORRECTION
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STATIC CORRECTION
Time-shift of traces in order to correct for surface topography and weathered
layer.
Static correction is done to bring the source and geophone in same datum.
Corrections:
E s E r 2E d
where: t ,
Es is the source elevation V
Er is the receiver elevation
Ed is the datum elevation
V is the velocity above the datum
NMO CORRECTION Step 3: The arrivals are aligned in a process called normal moveout correction
(NMO), and the aligned records are stacked.
NMO correction is done in such a way that the source and detector are at the same
point while taking the recording so that we get the real data of the subsurface.
Step 1: The data is organized into common mid-point gathers at each mid-point location.
If the NMO is done correctly, i.e. the velocity and depth are chosen correctly, the stacking
operation results in a large increase of the coherent signal-to-noise ratio.
Step 2: Coherent arrivals are identified, and a search for best fitting depth and velocity
is carried out.
STACKING
MIGRATION All the reflections from the various offsets
associated with CMP are summed or
Migration- There are two main types of migration ; stacked to give one trace for each CMP; this
Prestack( before stacking) and Post stack(after leads to an improvement in the Signalto
stacking). The first involves migrating the seismic noise ratio.
data prior to the stacking sequence, the second is Signals from spurious noise tend to vary
after stacking is appeared. between the different traces and will
If the geological years are almost flat and the therefore, get cancelled out or at least
seismic velocities are uniform a simple post stack suppressed. True geological signals from
migration will give a good result, if the seismic the different traces tend to be similar and
velocity varies a little or dips are small than pre are thus boosted during the stacking
stack time emigration will give good solution. process.
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S- Source
D- Detector
INTERPRETATION
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UNCONFORMITY FAULTS
Seismic Method
Seismic Method
The principle of
Seismic method.
(L) Air gun (R) A Hydrophone
SOURCE DETECT
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SUBSURFACE
LAYER
AIRGUN
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1. Seismic vessel
2. Hydrophones
SEISMIC SURVEY
Geophone
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2D seismic surveys
Some typical average velocities
are:
When exploring a new area where
shale = 3.6 km/s (highly porous) little is known of the subsurface
sandstone = 4.2 km/s; geology, a 2D survey is usually
performed.
Compact limestone = 5.0 km/s.
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A seismic Record in the Gulf Coast over a gas field. Note the
A seismic Record in the Gulf of Mexico. Note the Salt Dome. Bright Spot on the gas sand.
Thanks
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