The process includes rapid volume interpretation to build the structural framework, investigation of seismic attributes to determine the geological setting and reservoir imaging and prestack seismic interpretation to get a better understanding of reservoir characteristics and distribution.
Taking advantage of the ability to do multi-volume and multi-attribute interpretation it is possible to rapidly analyze large prospects which allows for more opportunity to investigate applied geophysical techniques to gain further insight into the reservoir potential. Using reservoir imaging techniques to study the frequency response of geological features, it is possible to gain valuable insight into reservoir potential and characteristics like distribution and lateral variation. To get a better understanding of the reservoir potential and validate the prospect, analysis of pre-stack seismic data proves to be an invaluable technique to see clear differences in the prestack response due to hydrocarbons or water in the reservoir. The ability to determine what an amplitude response is due to greatly improves the confidence to develop more high quality prospects.
To be able to do this interpretation in a 3D environment means that the reservoir characteristics in relation to structure is invaluable to validate prospects faster, and better understand reservoir potential.