A multistep approach to multicomponent seismic image registration with application to a West Texas carbonate reservoir study

Abstract

Application of multicomponent seismic exploration produces multiple images of the same subsurface. For a successful interpretation of multicomponent images, it is crucially important to register them in the same coordinate frame. Accurate registration of time‐domain im‐ages also provides an effective estimate of the interval ratio, a major petrophysical attribute. We propose a multistep approach to im‐age registration, which consists of initial interpretation, amplitude and frequency balancing, registration scan, and least‐squares optimization. The approach is applied successfully to a 3C3D seismic dataset from West Texas, where multicomponent image registration provides an in‐sight into a targeted carbonate reservoir facies.