Analysis of seismic anisotropy at the CO2CRC Otway project site

Asgharzadeh, Mehdi

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Open access

Authors

Asgharzadeh, Mehdi

Date

2014

Supervisor

Prof. Buris Gurevich

Assoc. Prof. Dr Roman Pevzner

Assoc. Prof. Dr Andrej Bóna

Assoc. Prof. Dr Milovan Urosevic

Type

Thesis

Award

PhD

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Faculty

Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Exploration Geophysics

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/817

Collection

Curtin Theses

Abstract

This work evaluates the reliability of VSP related slowness and slowness-polarization methods for local VTI and orthorhombic anisotropy parameter estimation that can be utilized as a seismic time-lapse tool for monitoring CO2 injection into geological formations. The uncertainties have been quantified through the inversion of several numerical and synthetic datasets and the results of this analysis were used to validate seismic anisotropy parameter estimation from VSP measurements at CO2CRC’s Otway geosequestration site in Victoria, Australia.