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Sweetness!? 
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Joined: Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:05 pm
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Post Sweetness!?
Not really a problem I'm encountering but rather an inquisitive remark. Has anybody been using the Seismic Attribute "Sweetness" in their reservoir characterisation. I usually use it for identifying channels and other facies, but have never been able to translate it's values to usefull lithological properties. I know it's a quantitatively meaningless attribute as it calculated by dividing the Envelope (reflection strength) by the square root of instantaneous frequency (Hertz).


Any ideas on this?


Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:39 pm

Joined: Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:22 pm
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Post Re: Sweetness!?
I haven´t used it but as I think is the case with all seismic attributes you need to couple them to your well logs and maybe cross-plot them with your petrophysical data to identify their correlation.
Then you might be able to use neural nets to use your seismic attribute info to model/interpolate petrophysical data away from your wells.


any help??


Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:05 pm

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Post Re: Sweetness!?
can somebody explain the details of this 'Sweetness' attribute??


Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:50 pm

Joined: Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:06 pm
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Post Re: Sweetness!?
Basically sweetness is a relatively new (first described by Radovich and Oliveros, 1998) attribute used in 3D seismic interpretation and visualisation is appropriately named ‘Sweetness’. This is due to its strong ability to visualize subtle channels and their internal structure in deep-water clastic and coastal plain settings.

As DKarlstadt points out it's meaning or quantative use is a difficult concept. But, it may be used in a semi-quantitative way to predict net-to-gross ratios in channel systems (Hart, 2008; two follow-up articles available). However, its units are difficult to understand and better thought of as relative values. This is due to Sweetness being calculated from the Instantaneous Amplitude divided by the square root of Instantaneous Frequency. This mathematical definition combines attribute relationships that are very useful for identification of isolated sand bodies in shale successions as they generate stronger broader reflectors than the surrounding shales. When seismic quality is bad, acoustic impedence contrasts between sands and shales are low or when they are highly interbedded the effectiveness of Sweetness diminishes.

that's my understanding of sweetness....


Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:58 pm

Joined: Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:16 am
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Post Re: Sweetness!?
Hi everyone

I am doing my final MS research on attribute analysis. I am completely lost in this "Sweetness" attribute :( I will be much obliged if any one can guide me with it. when sweetness appears high on the limestone??? though it has high amplitude and high frequency


Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:24 am
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