Dividing of Q factor of viscous and intrinsic attenuation in poroelastic media
Abstract
Sonic logging has been widely used for many years to understand physical properties of hydrocarbon reservoirs. When gaseous phase exists in the formation fluid, the compressional waves traveling through the formation could be strongly attenuated due to low bulk modulus of gas in the fluid, while the shear waves are not. For acquiring physical properties of fluid in the formation, Biot physics or poroelastic analysis could be the best method. Among the available technologies, quality factors based on the Biot's equation could be used. Although the Biot's theory considers the viscous attenuation induced at the interface between rocks and pore fluids, the intrinsic attenuation caused by the internal friction in the matrix is ignored. In the present study, we investigate how large are the effects of the intrinsic attenuation of compressional waves through the evaluation of the reservoir properties based on the quality factor. We employ a 2D finite-difference scheme to simulate seismic wave propagation in a poroelasic medium. The intrinsic attenuation is included in our model by using the filter of frequency-independent quality factor (constant-Q). We then compare the results compressional waves and shear waves with the intrinsic attenuation in our numerical simulations. Our results clearly show that on compressional and shear waves, the amplitude and phase of the waveforms are strongly affected by the intrinsic attenuation, and we could get only the viscous attenuation by the results of quality factor of compressional wave and shear wave. We conclude that the evaluations of hydrocarbon reservoir require the consideration of the intrinsic attenuation as well as the viscous attenuation predicted by the Biot's theory and also we could get what kind of fluid is contained in the reservoir. The profile of Q factor
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013AGUFMNS43A1796I
- Keywords:
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- 0902 EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS Computational methods: seismic;
- 0900 EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS