Brittleness of rock plays a significant role in exploration and development of shale gas reservoirs. Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio are the key param- eters for evaluating the rock brittleness in shale gas expl...Brittleness of rock plays a significant role in exploration and development of shale gas reservoirs. Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio are the key param- eters for evaluating the rock brittleness in shale gas exploration because their combination relationship can quantitatively characterize the rock brittleness. The high- value anomaly of Young's modulus and the low-value anomaly of Poisson's ratio represent high brittleness of shale. The technique of pre-stack amplitude variation with angle inversion allows geoscientists to estimate Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio from seismic data. A model constrained basis pursuit inversion method is proposed for stably estimating Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio. Test results of synthetic gather data show that Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio can be estimated reasonably. With the novel method, the inverted Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio of real field data focus the layer boundaries better, which is helpful for us to evaluate the brittleness of shale gas reservoirs. The results of brittleness evaluation show a good agreement with the results of well interpretation.展开更多
基金the sponsorship of the National ‘‘973 Program’’ of China (2013CB228604)the National Grand Project for Science and Technology (2011ZX05030004-002)+6 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2014M550379)Natural Science Foundation of Shandong (2014BSE28009)Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of Shandong (201401018)Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of QingdaoScience Foundation from SINOPEC Key Laboratory of Geophysics (33550006-14-FW2099-0038)the support of the Australian and Western Australian governments and the North West Shelf Joint Venture partnersthe Western Australian Energy Research Alliance (WA:ERA)
文摘Brittleness of rock plays a significant role in exploration and development of shale gas reservoirs. Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio are the key param- eters for evaluating the rock brittleness in shale gas exploration because their combination relationship can quantitatively characterize the rock brittleness. The high- value anomaly of Young's modulus and the low-value anomaly of Poisson's ratio represent high brittleness of shale. The technique of pre-stack amplitude variation with angle inversion allows geoscientists to estimate Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio from seismic data. A model constrained basis pursuit inversion method is proposed for stably estimating Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio. Test results of synthetic gather data show that Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio can be estimated reasonably. With the novel method, the inverted Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio of real field data focus the layer boundaries better, which is helpful for us to evaluate the brittleness of shale gas reservoirs. The results of brittleness evaluation show a good agreement with the results of well interpretation.