Interactive Seismic Interpretation with Piecewise Global Energy Minimization

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• Publication Type: Conference Paper
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
  • Visualization Group
• Date: March 2011
• ISBN: 978-1-61284-935-5
• Publisher: IEEE Pacific Visualization 2011
• Organization: The 4th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2011)
• Location: Hong Kong
• Lecturer: Thomas Hoellt
• Booktitle: Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization 2011
• Conference date: 1. March 2011 – 4. March 2011
• Pages: 59 – 66

Abstract

Increasing demands in world-wide energy consumption and oil depletion of large reservoirs have resulted in the need for exploring smaller and more complex oil reservoirs. Planning of the reservoir valorization usually starts with creating a model of the subsurface structures, including seismic faults and horizons. However, seismic interpretation and horizon tracing is a difficult and error-prone task, often resulting in hours of work needing to be manually repeated. In this paper, we propose a novel, interactive workflow for horizon interpretation based on well positions, which include additional geological and geophysical data captured by actual drillings. Instead of interpreting the volume slice-by-slice in 2D, we propose 3D seismic interpretation based on well positions. We introduce a combination of 2D and 3D minimal cost path and minimal cost surface tracing for extracting horizons with very little user input. By processing the volume based on well positions rather than slice-based, we are able to create a piecewise optimal horizon surface at interactive rates. We have integrated our system into a visual analysis platform which supports multiple linked views for fast verification, exploration and analysis of the extracted horizons. The system is currently being evaluated by our collaborating domain experts.

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@inproceedings{Muigg_2011_ISI,
  title =      "Interactive Seismic Interpretation with Piecewise Global
               Energy Minimization",
  author =     "Thomas Hoellt and Johanna Beyer and Fritz-Michael
               Gschwantner and Philipp Muigg and Helmut Doleisch and Gabor
               Heinemann and Markus Hadwiger",
  year =       "2011",
  abstract =   "Increasing demands in world-wide energy consumption and oil
               depletion of large reservoirs have resulted in the need for
               exploring smaller and more complex oil reservoirs. Planning
               of the reservoir valorization usually starts with creating a
               model of the subsurface structures, including seismic faults
               and horizons. However, seismic interpretation and horizon
               tracing is a difficult and error-prone task, often resulting
               in hours of work needing to be manually repeated. In this
               paper, we propose a novel, interactive workflow for horizon
               interpretation based on well positions, which include
               additional geological and geophysical data captured by
               actual drillings. Instead of interpreting the volume
               slice-by-slice in 2D, we propose 3D seismic interpretation
               based on well positions. We introduce a combination of 2D
               and 3D minimal cost path and minimal cost surface tracing
               for extracting horizons with very little user input. By
               processing the volume based on well positions rather than
               slice-based, we are able to create a piecewise optimal
               horizon surface at interactive rates. We have integrated our
               system into a visual analysis platform which supports
               multiple linked views for fast verification, exploration and
               analysis of the extracted horizons. The system is currently
               being evaluated by our collaborating domain experts.",
  month =      mar,
  isbn =       " 978-1-61284-935-5 ",
  publisher =  "IEEE Pacific Visualization 2011",
  organization = "The 4th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis
               2011)",
  location =   "Hong Kong",
  booktitle =  "Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization 2011",
  pages =      "59--66",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2011/Muigg_2011_ISI/",
}