System for evaluating seismic sequence lithology and property, and for evaluating risk associated with predicting potential hydrocarbon reservoir, seal, trap or source

摘要

A method for translating seismic time data via seismic depth data to seismic depth/lithology data, enabling reduced-risk location of hydrocarbons. Reducing dry hole risk is accomplished by introducing a new work domain which provides a several-fold increase in parameters per data point corresponding to geophysical space and associated with seismic sequence data. This work domain provides improved separation and definition and quality control of a panoply of relevant geofactors which in turn provide enhanced material information about a plurality of sedimentary rock properties. The enhanced material information is quality- controlled to be geologically possible, then further quality-controlled to be consistent with probability via quantification of burial history, depositional facies distribution and data resolution.