3-D modeling of complex geological structures for oil and gas exploration.

@inproceedings{ChiraGM2009,
 abstract = { Due to the presence of complex geological structures (faults, recumbent folds, dikes, diabase sills, salt domes, etc) the geology interpretation of sedimentary basins suffers from low quality seismic imaging. This is one of main reasons of difficult of finding and recovering oil or gas in greater amounts from existing wells. New technologies (e.g. modeling and visualization) are being more and more used as tools to increase the ability to find new prospects of hydrocarbons and improves the efficiency of oil and gas exploration. In the petroliferous industry 3-D earth models are important for making decisions and other purposes. The normal faults are the principal structural components of basins and rifts, being very significant for the oil and gas exploration. These models (structural, stratigraphic and velocities) are useful to generate seismic data for verifying interpreted model and for testing the efficiency of seismic processing methods (seismic stacking, seismic migration, seismic inversion, etc). In this paper we build 3D complex geological structure model (e.g. faults, recumbent folds) as hypothetical examples of sedimentary basins appropriate for hydrocarbon accumulations. },
 author = { Chira-Oliva, Pedro A. AND Cruz, Joao C. R. AND Elias AND Nascimento, P. },
 booktitle = { Proc. 29th Gocad Meeting, Nancy },
 title = { 3-D modeling of complex geological structures for oil and gas exploration. },
 year = { 2009 }
}