Study on the method of identifying fractures by ant tracking technique

¹ School of Earth Sciences, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
² School of Electrical Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China

Abstract

Fracture is an effective reservoir space and important seepage channel for low permeability sandstone reservoirs, which is very important for reservoir exploration and development. Conventional fracture prediction methods have high cost, slow operation speed and low resolution, which limits the promotion of fracture identification methods. Therefore, this paper proposes a fracture prediction method based on ant tracking. This method is based on post-stack seismic data. Firstly, the seismic data is denoised and the fault continuity is enhanced by using structural smoothing and variance body attributes. On this basis, the active ant tracking is used to enhance the fault boundary of the data body. Then, the data body is subjected to multiple ant tracking calculations by optimizing parameters, and finally the suitable parameter values are determined to realize the prediction of natural fractures. The results show that the technology is used to predict natural fractures, and the prediction results have high resolution and reasonable fracture distribution.