Fracture characterization using seismic data in a West Kuwait field

Summary This paper describes a multi-scale seismic approach for characterizing reservoirs affected by large scale fracture corridors (close to seismic resolution) as well as diffuse fractures (far below seismic resolution). To reach such objective, the method is based on joint use of three approaches: (1) post-stack discontinuity analysis, (2) azimuthal inversion and (3) lithology prediction using prestack inversion and characterization. This paper illustrates how these known approaches can be used simultaneously to provide a comprehensive description of the fracture network, calibrated at wells and validated against the conceptual fracture models.