Application of frequency division AVO in the gas-bearing analysis of reservoir in the Xu-2 Member of the Anyue gas field

The second member of the Xujiahe Formation (the Xu-2 Member) in the Anyue area of the Sichuan Basin enjoys abundant tight gas reserves.However,this member has complex geological characteristics,and conventional amplitude versus offset (AVO) analysis has relatively low precision in predicting the gas-bearing property of the reservoir in this member.Therefore,it is necessary to develop a more fine-scale seismic prediction method. Based on the analysis of single-well petrophysical characteristics and forward models,the AVO attributes of the dominant frequency range were selected through the frequency division AVO inversion based on wavelet transform.Then,these AVO attributes were fused to form the gas-bearing indicator,using which the distribution of favorable gas-enrichment zones in the Xu-2 Member of the Anyue area was predicted.The results are as follows:The gas zones in the Xu-2 Member primarily present class IV AVO anomalies;For the gas and water zones,their AVO responses in the dominant frequency range (35~45 Hz) differed significantly from those in the full frequency band,and their gas-bearing response characteristics were more pronounced in the dominant frequency range;The AVO attributes sensitive to the gas-bearing property included the difference in the S-wave velocity,the difference in Poisson's ratio, and the fluid factor.The gas-bearing indicator was obtained through the fusion of these AVO attributes,and the negative anomalies of the gas-bearing indicator were indicative of favorable gas-bearing zones;The seismic-log correlation shows that the AVO attributes in the dominant frequency range yielded positive gas-bearing prediction effects.The method proposed in this study is expected to provide technical support for unconventional oil and gas exploration.