3D DWM for Regional Shale-carbonates

(Western Siberia, Bazhen formation)

Satellite Image

Landsat TM-
22.08.2006
7 channels The digital model of relief also clearly manifests
sub-latitudinal sub-meridional directions.

Area represents swamps with seasonally Satellite Image

changing system of shallow lakes and rivers

www.tetrale.com The thermal channel: blue arrow –

a negative thermal anomaly,
presumably well drilling landfills. 1
 Results of preceding Conventional Seismic processing

Tracing of tectonic faults and fracturing

in the wave field of reflected and
scattered waves at the time sections
Bottom of the
target interval
(~3000m depth)

Presumed Positions of faults and fracturing…

… on momentous ….. on azimuths of on momentous

frequencies cube maximum dip by amplitudes cube
slice (Т0=2504) isochrones map slice (Т0=2504)

The Bazhen formation is a pattern (suite) or rocks revealed in the Western Siberia at the depths more than 2 km. It is
developed within the territory exceeding 2 million sq.km, and it has relatively low thickness, twenty to thirty meters. It is
presented by dense clayey rocks, which are considered as an oil source bed (it contains the anomalously high percentage
of matured organic matter generated oil). However, any clayey rock is, first of all, a screen, impermeable bed for
hydrocarbon deposits. The zones of reservoir rocks of such type represent a peculiar kind of «bubbles» inside the rocks,
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in the areas of tangential stress relief and horizontal compression of deposits.
 Фильтрация
Post-processing: 1. Filtration

Raw DWM cube slice Low Frequency field with Residual High Frequency field
traces of horizontal footprints

Removal of (vertical) Residual field – with Smoothed residual field taken for
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next stage of post-processing
footprints removed footprints
 2. Extraction of Geo-bodies

Source Filtered Cube (at stage 1) Cube of equal thicknesses

Fitting of extraction parameters 4

 Geological interpretation of post-processed DWM Images

DWM fracturing
Highlighted is superimposed on
fracturing conventional
delineated by processing
DWM interpretation

Outcrops of fractured limestone in thick clay

(USA, Utah)

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Some existing and proposed new well locations based on
DWM results
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 Summary scheme of Geological Interpretation of Satellite Images
b) in allocating
lineaments for the area
were used as
indicators: river valleys,
chain of lakes,
elongated wetlands and
trough, ledges of
monochromatic spots
of isometric form.

 Have been allocated

a number of regional
a) b) lineaments traced to
a length of > 50 km
and many local
lineaments of
different strikes.

 All lineaments are

confidently
deciphered on the
satellite imagery, and
manifested in the
modern relief.
Google map
c)

a) Satellite image Landsat ETM- 03.09.2003 , and c) transformed image of Landsat ETM 07.09.2009 +8 channels;
 In all three shots there is a clearly identified mutually orthogonal system of lineaments of sub-latitudinal sub- 7
meridianal directions.
 Arrows and
cross-hair show
interpreted
correlating
features on both
DWM and space
images
 The results of
geological
a) interpretation of
satellite imagery
(performed
a) post-processed DWM results (from regardless of the
previous slides); b) same, with applied DWM) show that
image transformation; both systems are
shown in neo-
tectonics.

30deg

b)

The results DWM post-processing show diagonal fracturing system dominating in this area. The most intense anomalies
are related to zones of intersection sub-latitudinal and SW and NE directions. It should be noted that sections of the
cube represent the distribution of fractures at a considerable depth, and when correlated with the elements of space
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images on the surface it reveals both spatial shift (to North) and angular SW deviation about 30 deg.