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In marine seismic sections, features like “chimneys”, characterized by low similarity chaotic zones or vertical disordered characteristics arise due to migration of gas. Numerous interpretation tools have been developed for the identification of chimney features from seismic data. Here, a study over a 2D seismic reflection profile, acquired by CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin in 2010 was carried out. The data is optimally conditioned or post-processed before extracting the attributes such as the similarity, dip variance, energy, and frequency washout, to capture the chimneys on seismic data. Finally, the attributes are combined and trained over interpreter’s acquaintances through a non-linear multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network to compute a hybrid attribute, defined as the chimney meta-attribute. The neural training results into an overall normalized root mean squared (RMS) error of 0.6 to 0.7 between the train and test data sets. Three chimneys of ∼1.5, ∼0.9, ∼1.3 km heights are observed over the seismic line. As chimneys represent gas migration paths, the computation of chimney attribute helps in understanding the genesis of gas-hydrates not only in the KG basin, studied here, but also in any other prospective basin.
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Director, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology is thanked for according permission to publish this research. The first author acknowledges the DST-SERB for providing him with the financial support in the form of DST Inspire Fellowship. Thanks are due to anonymous reviewers for improving the work. This is a Wadia Research Contribution No. WIHG/0114.
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Ramu, R., Sain, K. Multi-attribute and Artificial Neural Network Analysis of Seismic Inferred Chimney-like Features in Marine Sediments: A Study from KG Basin, India. J Geol Soc India 97, 238–242 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-021-1672-8
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