{"title":"Residual and Commercial Gas Discrimination by Spectral Decomposition Using Ultra-Far Stacked Seismic Data, Nile Delta, Egypt","authors":"Walaa M. Fathy, Asghar Shams","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.201903158","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Summary One of the big challenges facing operators in the on-shore Nile Delta is the discrimination between residual gas saturations and mobile commercial gas. The application of spectral decomposition and frequency attributes on pre-stack seismic data has opened the door to think about the relationship between frequency attenuation and reservoir properties. The main motivation of this study is the existence of a potential accumulation, with a very good seismic response, extremely comparable to that observed in a major producing field nearby. The results of a well drilled in this prospect were not encouraging and the well was classified as a dry well with gas shows (gas saturation in the tested reservoir reached 28%). We will see in this study how spectral decomposition can be used to discriminate between low gas saturations and mobile, commercial gas in the area of study.","PeriodicalId":143013,"journal":{"name":"Second EAGE Eastern Mediterranean Workshop","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Second EAGE Eastern Mediterranean Workshop","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201903158","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Summary One of the big challenges facing operators in the on-shore Nile Delta is the discrimination between residual gas saturations and mobile commercial gas. The application of spectral decomposition and frequency attributes on pre-stack seismic data has opened the door to think about the relationship between frequency attenuation and reservoir properties. The main motivation of this study is the existence of a potential accumulation, with a very good seismic response, extremely comparable to that observed in a major producing field nearby. The results of a well drilled in this prospect were not encouraging and the well was classified as a dry well with gas shows (gas saturation in the tested reservoir reached 28%). We will see in this study how spectral decomposition can be used to discriminate between low gas saturations and mobile, commercial gas in the area of study.