Interpretation of Sea Bed Logging Data Using the LQL Method Available to Purchase

In this paper we develop and study a new technique for 3-D interpretation of sea-bottom electrical profiling data, collected with a mobile horizontal electric dipole (HED) transmitter and an array of seafloor electric receivers (The Sea Bed Logging Method). Our method is based on the localized quasi-linear approximation, which allows modeling and inversion of seafloor electrical data simultaneously for all positions of the transmitters and receivers. This opens a way for a full 3-D inversion of the SBL data for petroleum exploration. We apply this method to interpretation of the synthetic EM data simulated for the model of a seabottom petroleum reservoir. Our results demonstrate that the SBL method with an LQL-based 3-D interpretation can be used for seabottom reservoir detection in the presence of a salt dome structure.