Seismic Feature Enhancement

The ARK CLS Seismic Feature Enhancement plugin is a flat-spot utility that enhances the signal of consistent flat events and reduces the "noise" of the channel reflections.

Features: 

• A powerful flat-spot utility that enhances the signal of consistent flat events and reduces the "noise" of the channel reflections

• Seismic resolution of fluid contacts within potential reservoirs is a key risk-reducing factor in exploration prospects

• Occasionally, seismic data clearly resolves obvious fluid contacts prior to drilling

• Frequently though, subtle flat spots are only recognised after discovery

• Recognising flat spots at an earlier stage enhances the interpretation and reduces the risk of dry holes

• A technique has been developed and tested to enhance the signal of flat events within 3D seismic volumes

• The technique involves steering a traverse down a recognised channel axis

• The signal to noise of flat events is improved by the square root of the number of relevant input traces

• SFE allows explorationists on their own workstations to build an enhanced seismic traverse by specifying a swath of data from a 3D survey

• This data may then be processed using various control parameters supplied by the explorationist, who can then invoke the SFE traverse-building algorithm in the program and create the flat spot enhanced traverse