Seismic petrophysics: An applied science for reservoir geophysics

Modern computational power and processing schemes have liberated reflection seismology from its primary purpose, structural mapping. It is now fairly routine to produce a number of seismic attributes, using either prestack or poststack data, or even both in combination. With these attributes, the geophysical interpreter can now make maps and look for geologically-meaningful trends in the data…or correlate them with well observations and use them in geostatistical models…or perhaps try to use them directly to solve for the rock types and fluids in a deterministic manner.