Review Article

Accelerometer Sensor Specifications to Predict Hydrocarbon Using Passive Seismic Technique

Table 9

Technical description of seismic data acquisition technique at low frequency.

Frequency range focusedTechnique usedAdvantageDisadvantage

Modeling frequency: 50–60 Hz [25]Spike deconvolution for low frequency modeling(i) Low-cut filter is used to attenuate low frequencies.
(ii) Defining technique produces better P-wave and S-wave seismic section.
(i) Need for recovery of broad signal bandwidth.
(ii) Poor wavelet extraction and its structure.

Modeling frequency: 1 KHz
Acquired seismic frequency: 12 Hz
Reflectivity at 40 Hz [26]
(i) Ultrasonic experiment
(ii) Seismic data analysis
(i) Signal is reflected from a thin, water- (Sw) or oil-saturated (Sh) layer.
(ii) Frequency dependent amplitude and phase reflection attributes have been utilized for observing and identifying thin liquid saturated layers.
(i) Strong attenuation in the layer affects summation of multiples.
(ii) Layers with higher attenuation create travel time delays, which increase as frequency approaches zero.

Missing frequency: 5–10 Hz [27] (i) 3D acoustic inversion
(ii) Variable depth streamer: seismic data acquisition
(iii) 3D elastic inversion: comparison technique
(i) Variable depth streamer for data acquisition is better for inversion and provides missing low frequencies directly.
(ii) Left side lobe of the wavelet is proposed to reduce/less interference in the seismic signal results in less ambiguity in inversion.
(i) There is variation in resulting inversion due to high variation in acquisition frequency.
(ii) Broadband inversion may cause obtained results outside the target zone.

Reflection: <15 Hz
Amplitude: 40 Hz [28]
(i) AVO attribute analysis
(ii) VSP analysis
(i) Imaging at low frequencies results in robust amplitudes for individual frequency components of propagating wavelet.
(ii) Frequency based seismic imaging permits characterizing the subsurface fluid reservoirs.
(i) Quantitative analysis of AI (as frequency) requires NMO stretching.
(ii) Conventional seismic processing software does not work as target-oriented processing.