Seismic attribute technology for reservoir forecasting and monitoring

Abstract

During the 1970s and 1980s, the seismic attributes most used in petroleum exploration were amplitude‐based instantaneous attributes. However, in the 1990s, seismic attribute technology has dramatically advanced in several directions; techniques now range from single‐trace instantaneous event attribute computations to more complex multitrace windowed seismic event attribute extractions to the generation of seismic attribute volumes. Applications run from simple amplitude anomaly detection to monitoring fluid front movement over time.