The Reason Why The Gravity Geophysical Exploration Is Becoming Popular

الاثنين، 22 فبراير 2016

By Lisa Lee


For a long time now, seismic has been the principal method used in the extracting of gas and oil. The logic behind this was the fact that the other options that were available were not well established to do the extraction. Most of that are changing as the technology has paved the way to new methods to be used in the extraction. An example is the gravity geophysical exploration method, which has become popular due to many discoveries being made in its favor. Below are some explanations that will explain that reason that gravity method is becoming popular.

Technology is the one thing that has made it all possible. Technology has done the reading provided by this method easy to read and understand. The results trained before were rough and course as compared to the one that people are getting today. Due to these fine results, gravity is now used alongside seismic or alone as a way of extraction.

In fact, gravity method has grown so much that there some firms that specialize in the gravity field by using the geophysical techniques and blending them with seismic so as to have greater success during the extraction of oil and gas. The reason that is behind this success is the improvement of its data over the years. Due to technology the speed of acquiring data is better and faster.

There has been improved resolution that allows the scientist to be able to use a very small scale as well as shallow lateral variation in magnetic susceptibility and density. While doing this, the hydro-carbonate plays a significant role. The use of modern gravity can be able to provide a set of observations that is more associated with the character of hydrocarbon play.

The other factor is that there are places where the seismic alone cannot be able to give results and thus the improved gravity method is used. Since seismically is not able to offer consistent results in different settings due to it having an elastic property. At times, it becomes difficult for some rocks to give the accurate acoustic energy. Thus, this makes it difficult for hunters of oil and gas to rely on seismic alone.

The tradition methods used in the extraction were not reliable at the interface that is vertical. However with this method, hunters of oil can use it at the interloper between the density that is lateral as well as the place where there is fascinating contrast.

The exploration of oil has become so intense, that there are areas where it cannot be applicable without the use of the gravity process. More explorers are opting to use this method so as to improvement the seismic exploration.

If the technology continues to improve the results that are attained by the gravity method, there will reach a time when it is the only method that is being used. This is because it is accurate, reliable where other methods have failed and most flexible.




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