Take advantage of geomechanics to verify your 3D geological structure interpretation.
Despite the tremendous detail now available from 3D seismic reflection techniques, many structures remain difficult to properly analyze because of their complexity, because of poor seismic quality, or because the features of interest are below the resolution of the data. Therefore, geologists and geophysicists must rely on their expertise and knowledge in structural geology.
Let our experts in this field merge your data with geomechanically-based simulations to help make a correct evaluation of:
How to mechanically assess the consistency of the current 3D fault model?
How to constrain spatial continuity and linkage of faults below seismic resolution?
How to construct and mechanically balance 2D cross-sections and 3D model?
This example illustrates how mechanically-based 3D volume restoration with Dynel3D is used to check the consistency of a complex structure (1). Analysis of the restored model (2) shows large fault cut-off mismatches (3) associated with anomalous strain concentrations (4). Therefore, the 3D structure seems to be geomechanically inconsistent. (SEG-EAGE 3D overthrust model from Aminzadeh et al., 1997)
Take advantage of geomechanics to verify your 3D geological structure interpretation.
This example illustrates how mechanically-based 3D volume restoration with Dynel3D is used to check the consistency of a complex structure (1). Analysis of the restored model (2) shows large fault cut-off mismatches (3) associated with anomalous strain concentrations (4). Therefore, the 3D structure seems to be geomechanically inconsistent. (SEG-EAGE 3D overthrust model from Aminzadeh et al., 1997)