Software Toolkit for Analysing Faults

Duration - 1/01/96 - 31/05/99

Funding - Part funded by the DTI

Industrial Partner - Badley Earth Sciences (U.K.)

Summary - The STAF project brings together a set of interrelated fundamental fault analysis tools that have potential applicability within a diverse range of software products. The commercial potential is very large if the results of STAF become disseminated through a broad range of software products produced by the main vendors.

The project researches into and develops the following software tools:

1. Fault Seal Analysis for cellular reservoir models enabling the incorporation of seal-based transmissibility factors into reservoir modelling.
2. Extrapolation of Fault Surfaces for use in seismic interpretation systems, mapping packages and cellular models. The software would extrapolate fault surfaces to their true extents and have major application in refining subsurface interpretations, especially in production.
3. Backstripping of reservoir-scale faults to investigate juxtaposition and seal evolution (trap formation), predict changes in fault transmissibility through geological time (fluid migration analysis) and to test detailed geological and seismic interpretations.
4. Automated Fault Correlation to guide and constrain, using algorithms based on fault displacement patterns, automated fault interpretations on seismic interpretations and in general as an automated QC tool for fault interpretations.

Contact: John Walsh
Tel: +353 1 716 2169
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