Quantifying Time-lapse Seismic Signal Detection for the Otway Project Using Prestack Migration

During Stage 2 of the Otway CCS Australian project it is planned to inject a small, up to 15,000 tonnes of gas, into a saline aquifer located at depth of 1500 m. In CO2 sequestration, the ability to detect CO2 plumes is one of the main purposes of using time-lapse seismic imaging. The detectability...

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Main Authors: Alajmi, M., Bona, Andrej, Pevzner, R.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15895
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author Alajmi, M.
Bona, Andrej
Pevzner, R.
author_facet Alajmi, M.
Bona, Andrej
Pevzner, R.
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description During Stage 2 of the Otway CCS Australian project it is planned to inject a small, up to 15,000 tonnes of gas, into a saline aquifer located at depth of 1500 m. In CO2 sequestration, the ability to detect CO2 plumes is one of the main purposes of using time-lapse seismic imaging. The detectability of CO2 in seismic time-lapse surveys relies on two main factors: a sufficiently strong signal and sufficiently small noise. Therefore, to model time-lapse seismic records, we need to model not only the seismic response of the geology and the plume but also the time-lapse noise. Because plume detection is determined by the S/N, the ability to model realistic time-lapse noise is crucial in any feasibility study. In this work, we propose a more realistic approach by adding band-limited random noise to the pre-stack data (shot gathers) to match the S/N of field data. Using these noisy gathers we then compare the detectability of CO2 plume by using pre- and post-stack Kirchhoff migrations.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-158952017-09-13T14:08:01Z Quantifying Time-lapse Seismic Signal Detection for the Otway Project Using Prestack Migration Alajmi, M. Bona, Andrej Pevzner, R. During Stage 2 of the Otway CCS Australian project it is planned to inject a small, up to 15,000 tonnes of gas, into a saline aquifer located at depth of 1500 m. In CO2 sequestration, the ability to detect CO2 plumes is one of the main purposes of using time-lapse seismic imaging. The detectability of CO2 in seismic time-lapse surveys relies on two main factors: a sufficiently strong signal and sufficiently small noise. Therefore, to model time-lapse seismic records, we need to model not only the seismic response of the geology and the plume but also the time-lapse noise. Because plume detection is determined by the S/N, the ability to model realistic time-lapse noise is crucial in any feasibility study. In this work, we propose a more realistic approach by adding band-limited random noise to the pre-stack data (shot gathers) to match the S/N of field data. Using these noisy gathers we then compare the detectability of CO2 plume by using pre- and post-stack Kirchhoff migrations. 2015 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15895 10.3997/2214-4609.201413466 restricted
spellingShingle Alajmi, M.
Bona, Andrej
Pevzner, R.
Quantifying Time-lapse Seismic Signal Detection for the Otway Project Using Prestack Migration
title Quantifying Time-lapse Seismic Signal Detection for the Otway Project Using Prestack Migration
title_full Quantifying Time-lapse Seismic Signal Detection for the Otway Project Using Prestack Migration
title_fullStr Quantifying Time-lapse Seismic Signal Detection for the Otway Project Using Prestack Migration
title_full_unstemmed Quantifying Time-lapse Seismic Signal Detection for the Otway Project Using Prestack Migration
title_short Quantifying Time-lapse Seismic Signal Detection for the Otway Project Using Prestack Migration
title_sort quantifying time-lapse seismic signal detection for the otway project using prestack migration
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15895