ARK CLS Seismic Spectral Blueing V2.92 - OpendTect plugin version

ARK CLS Limited

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Background and Theory
1. Basics
2. Benefits of Seismic Inversion
3. Inversion Limitations
4. Inversion techniques
4.1. Parametric Inversion
4.2. Coloured Inversion
4.3. Synthetic example
4.4. Real data examples
4.4.1. Comparison between Coloured Inversion and Unconstrained Sparse Spike
4.4.2. Improving interpretation
4.4.3. Well Planning
5. Seismic Coloured Inversion (SCI)
6. Seismic Spectral Blueing (SSB)
7. References and Acknowledgements
7.1. References
7.2. Acknowledgements
3. Quick Start - SsbQt Tutorial
1. Launching the SsbQt OpendTect plug-in
2. Selecting Data
2.1. Input Seismic
2.2. Input Well Log
3. Designing and Saving the Spectral Blueing Operator
4. Application of SsbQt operator
4.1. Testing the Spectral Blueing operator
4.2. Applying the Spectral Blueing operator
4. User Manual
1. Interfacing with the SsbQt Application
1.1. SsbQt Main Window
1.1.1. Menubar Area
1.1.2. Toolbar Area
1.1.3. Chart Area
1.1.4. Status Area
1.2. SsbQt Main Window ancillary tools
1.2.1. Save Operator
1.2.2. Export Operator
1.2.3. Export Data Item
1.2.4. Parameter Report
2. User interaction with Chart Area
2.1. Direct Interactions
2.1.1. Global Zooming
2.1.2. Identifying Data
2.1.3. Data Zooming
2.1.4. Moving Data
2.1.5. Changing Axes
2.2. Chart Controller
2.2.1. Creating a New Chart
2.2.2. Moving Charts
2.2.3. Deleting Charts
2.2.4. Changing the Number of Columns
2.2.5. Zooming In and Zooming Out
2.3. Display Data Items
2.3.1. Chart
2.3.2. Data Items
3. Select Input Data
3.1. Input Seismic tab
3.1.1. Select trace data
3.1.2. Loading and Clearing Data
3.1.3. Modifying Time Range
3.1.4. Removing Bad Traces
3.1.5. Select Volume dialog
3.1.6. Horizon Input Dialog
3.2. Input Well Log tab
3.2.1. ASCII well log loading
3.2.2. Define ASCII File Format
3.2.3. Database well log loading
3.2.4. Modifying Time Range
4. Design Controls
4.1. Smooth Seismic Mean
4.2. Fit Well Log Curves
4.3. Design Operator
5. Advanced Controls
5.1. Frequency Domain
5.2. Design Operator
5.3. Time Domain

List of Figures

2.1. Seismic Method and Inversion
2.2. Synthetic comparison
2.3. Synthetic comparison in greater detail
3.1. Attribute Set used to launch SsbQt
3.2. Seismic Spectral Blueing main window
3.3. Seismic Spectral Blueing main window after analysis and design
4.1. SsbQt main window
4.2. Chart Controller dialog
4.3. Display Data Items dialog
4.4. Select Input Data Dialog - Input Well Log tab
4.5. Select Database Logs (OpendTect)
4.6. Generate Reflectivity Log (OpendTect)
4.7. Design Controls Dialog
4.8. Advanced Controls Dialog