APPLICATIONS OF

AMPLITUDE VERSUS
OFFSET (AVO)
Presented by:
Faria Badhal Jessica Julien Chantelle Ragoonath
 AVO BASICS & ANALYSIS
The dependency of the seismic attribute, amplitude, with the distance between the source and receiver.
AVA?

Relevant Equations:

Feasibility to Data AVO Modelling Elastic Model

Problem Processing Scanning Inversion

Phenomena on seismic data can provide substantial exploration and development information to determine a rocks fluid
content (HC), porosity, density or seismic velocity, shear wave information.
 CASE STUDY
OVERPRESSURE DETECTION
FROM SEISMIC AMPLITUDE VERSUS
OFFSET RESPONSE:
AN APPLICATION TO GAS-HYDRATES
Ranjan Kumar Dash, Kalachand Sain* and N. K. Thakur
WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT OVERPRESSURE?
OVERPRESSURE DETECTION FROM SEISMIC AMPLITUDE VERSUS OFFSET RESPONSE:
AN APPLICATION TO GAS-HYDRATES

P-wave & S-wave Velocities

1 P-wave velocity decreases with overpressure.

S-wave velocity also decreases with overpressure, but

to a different degree.

2 Poisson's Ratio
The Poissons ratio decreases with increasing
pore pressure

At HIGH pore-pressure the Poissons ratio

increases again.

3 Reflection Coefficients : P-P reflected phases

The amplitudes or reflection coefficients of PP
reflected phases are high and increase with
overpressure at 90 degrees angle of incidence

The AVO response at high overpressure shows

negative trends.
 Reflection Coefficients: P-S reflected phases
4 Steadily increase with angles
Followed by negative anomalies at higher angles
Trends stronger at high overpressure
Values relatively high to P-P reflected phases at
high overpressure
Reflection Coefficients: P-P reflection coefficients

5 P-P reflection amplitude is high for high

concentrations of gas-hydrate causing
cementation
Shows highly negative anomaly at high
overpressure
Reflection Coefficients: P-S reflection coefficients

6 P-S amplitude is high for high conc. of hydrates

even at normal hydrostatic pressured
Therefore analysis to differentiate high pore
pressure + amplitudes of P-P reflected phases
should be conducted