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Abstract: Seismic Attribute Analysis for Reservoir and Fluid Prediction, Malay Basin

Mohd. Nor Mansor, Kurt W. Rudolph, F. Bill Richards

The Malay Basin is characterized by excellent seismic data quality, but complex clastic reservoir architecture. With these

characteristics, seismic attribute analysis is a very important tool in exploration and development geoscience and is routinely used for mapping fluids and reservoir, recognizing and risking traps, assessment, depth conversion, well placement, and field development planning.

Attribute analysis can be successfully applied to both 2-D and 3-D data as demonstrated by comparisons of 2-D and 3-D amplitude maps of the same area. There are many different methods of extracting amplitude information from seismic data, including amplitude mapping, horizon slice, summed horizon slice, isochron slice, and horizon slice from AVO (amplitude versus offset) cube. Within the Malay Basin, horizon/isochron slice techniques have several advantages over simply extracting amplitudes from a picked horizon: they are much faster, permit examination of the amplitude structure of the entire cube, yield better results for weak/variable signatures, and aid summation of amplitudes. Summation in itself often yields improved results because it incorporates the signature from the entire eservoir interval, reducing any effects due to noise, mispicking, or waveform variations. Dip and azimuth attributes have been widely applied by industry for fault identification. In addition, these attributes can also be used to map signature variations associated with hydrocarbon contacts or stratigraphic changes, and this must be considered when using these attributes for structural interpretation.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90982©1994 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 21-24, 1994