The Research and Application of Bright Spot Quantitative Interpretation in Deepwater Exploration

Abstract

Prospectors usually recognize the event with strong amplitude in seismic sections as bright spots. However, such a simple and rough method can’t distinguish whether these bright spots are related to favorable gas layer or water layer directly. In this paper, for the high correlation between reservoir gascontent and amplitude anomaly in research area, based on rock physical analysis of the wells drilled, using forward modeling technique respectively simulates and analyzes the seismic amplitude of gas layer and water layer. Then, combining the simulation result with corresponding statistics amplitude obtains the numerical relationship between each layer amplitude. At last, using the display technique directly recognizes the bright spots of gas layer in seismic profile and gets rid of those false bright spots caused by water layer, which improved the robustness in the bright spots interpretation and provided reliable basis for reducing exploration risks. Moreover, applying the method to the target zone, we obtain huge success.