Method for producing underground deposits of hydrocarbon from an earth formation using fault interpretation including spline fault tracking

摘要

A method is disclosed for determining a fault surface in a formation, comprising: determining a first plurality of crosscorrelation values for a 3D Volume associated, respectively, with a corresponding first plurality of 3D Volumes, and selecting a first minimum one of the first plurality of crosscorrelation values, a first derived fault segment corresponding to the first minimum one of the first plurality of crosscorrelation values, the first derived fault segment approximately lying on the fault surface and tending to determine the fault surface in the formation.