Feasibility of CO2 plume detection using 4D seismic: CO2CRC Otway Project case study — Part 2: Detectability analysis

ABSTRACTA key objective of stage 2 of the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) Otway Project is to explore the ability of the seismic reflection method to detect and monitor injection of a small amount of greenhouse gas into a saline formation. Development of a seismic monitoring program requires an understanding of expected time-lapse (TL) seismic signals. Hence, before such an injection experiment is undertaken, we assessed the feasibility of seismic monitoring in a modeling study. Considering realistic gas distributions inferred from reservoir simulations, we analyzed the influence of various factors (injection volume, time after injection, and realizations of the reservoir flow model) on the TL seismic signal. However, the applicability of seismic monitoring depends not only on the strength of the TL seismic signal but also on the noise level of the seismic data. Hence, to estimate the detectability of gas in the subsurface, we have developed a workflow that integrated ...

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