Oil & Gas Exploration and Development with the Reverse Time Holography Technology

Abstract

Abstract The article analyzes methods for constructing seismic attributes, which are based on two-stage data processing: on decomposition the initial common shot gathers in common image gathers, using the time-reversal algorithms and on synthesis a seismic attributes. It is shown that a detailed analysis of the joint behavior of two vectors: the velocity vectors in forward wave and the velocity vectors in time-reversed backward scattering wave provides detailed information about the medium. This is the essence of a new approach called RTH, which allows the acquisition of various seismic attributes at high spatial resolution. The new approach provides the solutions of prediction problems in oil and gas exploration, as well as problems in development using the drilling data and AI algorithms, at a new qualitative level.