The present disclosure relates to the technical field of digital signal processing, and particularly to a method and a device for increasing frequency of seismic digital signal. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to the analyzing and processing of micro-seismic monitoring data generated during fracturing exploitation procedure of shale gas.
Shale gas is an important unconventional gas resource, and is mainly exploited through hydraulic fracture process. That is, a mixture of chemical substances and a large amount of water and silt is injected into an underground well with high pressure, so that the surrounding rock structures are fractured and then the gas can be collected. During the procedure when the rock cracks, seismic wave with a weak strength would be generated, and this phenomenon is called as “micro-seismic.”
The micro-seismic monitoring technology is a kind of geophysical technology that through observing and analyzing small seismic events that are generated in production activities, the influences and effects of production activities, as well as the underground states can be monitored. The basic method is that, through arranging detectors in the well or on the ground, the small seismic events that are generated or induced in production activities can be received, and through inverting these events, the source locations of micro-seismic as well as other parameters can be obtained. In the field of shale gas hydraulic fracture micro-seismic monitoring, the signal-to-noise ratio of the micro-seismic data is relatively low. As a result, the weak events are rather difficult to be identified, and thus the source location imaging and positioning of micro-seismic weak events cannot be performed at present. There is no feasible method for existing technology to solve this technical problem.
In order to realize seismic location imaging and positioning of micro-seismic under present technology, more strong events that can be identified easily can be obtained through prolonging fracturing operation time, increasing fracturing fluid. However, the economic cost and environmental protection problems would be brought about when the above methods are used.
Therefore, in currently micro-seismic monitoring field, with respect to the low signal-to-noise ratio of the acquisition data material, a method through which valid weak events can be extracted accurately is urgently needed.
With respect to the technical defect that the weak events cannot be identified accurately in the field of shale gas hydraulic fracture micro-seismic monitoring, the present disclosure provides a new frequency increasing processing method of a digital signal. According to the present disclosure, the frequency increasing and polarity transform processing method is referred to as zero polarity transform.
According to the present disclosure, the method comprises the steps of: inputting, in step S101, a real signal trace collected in a certain period of time; performing Hilbert transform, in step S102, on the real signal trace, so as to obtain an instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace; and performing frequency increasing and polarity transform processing on the real signal trace, in step S103, based on the instantaneous amplitude trace, so as to obtain a frequency increasing signal trace.
According to one example of the present disclosure, the method further comprises the following steps after step S103, so as to further optimize the frequency increasing signal trace: performing Hilbert transform, in step S104, on the frequency increasing signal trace, so as to obtain an instantaneous cosine phase function trace of the frequency increasing signal trace; and reconstructing, in step S105, the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace and the instantaneous cosine phase function trace of the frequency increasing signal trace, so as to optimize the frequency increasing signal trace.
According to one example of the present disclosure, a reconstruction in step S105 is performed according to the following formula:
z(t)=cos ξ(t)·a(t),
wherein z(t) represents an optimized frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity, cos ξ(t) represents the instantaneous cosine phase function trace of the frequency increasing signal trace, and a(t) represents the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace.
According to one example of the present disclosure, the frequency increasing and polarity transform processing is performed according to the following formula:
y(t)=k1·|x(t)|−k2·a(t),
wherein y(t) represents the frequency increasing signal trace, x(t) represents the real signal trace, a(t) represents the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace, and k1 and k2 are constants.
According to one example of the present disclosure, a ratio of k1 to k2 ranges from 1.2 to 2.0, and a frequency of a processed frequency increasing signal trace is a multiple of a frequency of an original real signal trace.
According to one example of the present disclosure, a value of the constant k1 is preferably 4 and a value of the constant k2 is preferably π.
According to another aspect, the present disclosure further provides a frequency increasing processing device of a digital signal, which comprises the following modules: an inputting module, used for inputting a real signal trace collected in a certain period of time; a first transformation module, used for performing Hilbert transform on the real signal trace, so as to obtain an instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace; and a frequency increasing and polarity transform processing module, used for performing frequency increasing and polarity transform processing on the real signal trace, based on the instantaneous amplitude trace, so as to obtain a frequency increasing signal trace.
According to one example of the present disclosure, the device further comprises the following modules used for further optimizing the frequency increasing signal trace: a second transformation module, used for performing Hilbert transform on the frequency increasing signal trace, so as to obtain an instantaneous cosine phase function trace of the frequency increasing signal trace; and a reconstruction module, used for reconstructing the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace and the instantaneous cosine phase function trace of the frequency increasing signal trace, so as to optimize the frequency increasing signal trace.
According to one example of the present disclosure, a reconstruction in the reconstruction module is performed according to the following formula:
z(t)=cos ξ(t)·a(t),
wherein z(t) represents an optimized frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity, cos ξ(t) represents the instantaneous cosine phase function trace of the frequency increasing signal trace, and a(t) represents the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace.
According to one example of the present disclosure, the frequency increasing and polarity transform processing in the frequency increasing and polarity transform processing module are performed according to the following formula:
y(t)=k1·|x(t)|−k2·a(t),
wherein y(t) represents the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity, x(t) represents the real signal trace, a(t) represents the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace, and k1 and k2 are constants.
The following beneficial effects can be brought about according to the present disclosure.
First, because the polarity of an event signal is eliminated and the frequency is increased, a valid weak event signal and an invalid interference signal are easier to be distinguished from each other. Thus, a weak signal source can be identified without a large number of strong events. This is particularly advantageous for environmental protection and cost reduction in the field of shale gas hydraulic fracture micro-seismic monitoring.
Second, the zero polarity transform and frequency increasing processing in the present invention are simple and of high versatility. Once constants k1 and k2 are given, frequency multiplying and zero polarity processing can be implemented for any signal.
Third, since the formulas according to the present disclosure are simple, a high degree of automation can be realized by a computer.
Other features and advantages of the present disclosure will be further explained in the following description, and partially become apparent, or be understood through the examples of the present disclosure. The objectives and advantages of the present disclosure will be achieved through the structure specifically pointed out in the description, claims, and the accompanying drawings.
The present disclosure will be explained in details with reference to the embodiments and the accompanying drawings, whereby it can be fully understood how to solve the technical problem by the technical means according to the present disclosure and achieve the technical effects thereof, and thus the technical solution according to the present disclosure can be implemented. It should be noted that, as long as there is no structural conflict, all the technical features mentioned in all the embodiments may be combined together in any manner, and the technical solutions obtained in this manner all fall within the scope of the present disclosure.
In addition, the steps as shown in the flow chart can be executed in a computer system by a group of computer executable instructions. Although a certain logical sequence is shown in the flow chart, the steps shown or described herein can be executed in other sequences different from the one shown herein in some cases.
The principle of the present disclosure will be illustrated hereinafter taking the micro-seismic events in the field of shale gas hydraulic fracture micro-seismic monitoring as an example. However, the present disclosure is not limited by this. It can be understood by those skilled in the technical field of digital signal processing that, the method according to the present disclosure can be used in the processing of any digital signal.
It can be taught from the above phenomenon that, if the polarities of the event lineups are unified and the frequency of the signal trace which contains noise is increased, the stacking imaging of the event lineups can be obtained, the stacking imaging of the interference lineups can be reduced, and thus the misjudgment rate in event identification can be reduced.
Then, in step S102, Hilbert transform is performed on the real signal trace, so that an instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace can be obtained.
Hilbert transform (HT) is an important tool in signal analysis. If a continuous time signal is x(t), and its Hilbert transform is h(t), the Hilbert transform can be expressed as:
its instantaneous amplitude can be expressed as:
a(t)=√{square root over (x2(t)+h2(t))} (2),
its instantaneous phase can be expressed as:
its instantaneous cosine phase function can be expressed as:
therefore,
it can be seen that, x(t) can be factorized into instantaneous cosine phase function cos θ(t) and instantaneous amplitude a(t).
Next, in step S103, frequency increasing and polarity transform processing are performed on the real signal trace x(t) based on the instantaneous amplitude trace, so that a frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity can be obtained. According to one example of the present disclosure, frequency increasing and polarity transform processing can be performed on the real signal trace based on the instantaneous amplitude trace a(t) of the real signal trace x(t). More specifically, the frequency increasing and polarity transform processing can be performed according to the following formula:
y(t)=k1·|x(t)|−k2·a(t) (6),
wherein y(t) represents the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity, x(t) represents the real signal trace, a(t) represents the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace x(t), and k1 as well as k2 are constants. A frequency of a processed frequency increasing signal trace is twice as a frequency of an original real signal trace.
According to one example of the present disclosure, the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity can be further optimized after step S103. For example, in step S104, Hilbert transform is performed on the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity, so that an instantaneous cosine phase function trace corresponding to the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity can be obtained. In step S105, the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace and the instantaneous cosine phase function trace of the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity are reconstructed, so that the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity can be optimized.
Specifically, a reconstruction in step S105 is performed according to the following formula:
z(t)=cos ξ(t)·a(t) (7),
wherein z(t) represents an optimized frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity, cos ξ(t) represents the instantaneous cosine phase function trace of the frequency increasing signal trace y(t), and a(t) represents the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace x(t). The transformation procedures are shown in
In general, before step S102, Normal Move-Out (NMO) or other kinds of pre-processing can be performed on the real signal trace x(t) so as to adjust the curves. The purpose of NMO is to eliminate time differences among the wavelets of the same seismic trace arriving the ground, so as to adjust the track of the time-distance curve of source wave at a common depth point. In this case, the interference can be suppressed by horizontal stacked technology.
After the above processing, positive polarity signal and negative polarity signal both can be transformed into non-polarity signal. At the same time, the frequency of the signal can be doubled, while its physical location is not changed. It can be demonstrated through theoretical model and actual micro-seismic data experiments that, the method for frequency increasing according to the present disclosure has an obvious effect, and is highly targeted.
As shown in
It is demonstrated by theoretical model and the results of actual micro-seismic data experiments that, the polarities of the event lineups can be uniformed by zero polarity transform, and the polarity offset phenomenon can be eliminated, so that the event lineups can be superposed into image. The frequency of the signal trace which contains noise can be doubled by zero polarity transform, and thus the random noise or interference lineups can hardly be superposed into image in a high frequency state. In addition, after zero polarity transform, the physical location of the signal is not changed, so that a correctness of the result of source inversion can be ensured.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the aforesaid method can be implemented in a computer device. The computer device and other peripheral circuits can constitute a digital signal processing device. The device comprises the following modules: an inputting module, used for inputting a real signal trace collected in a certain period of time; a first transformation module, used for performing Hilbert transform on the real signal trace, so as to obtain an instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace; and a frequency increasing and polarity transform processing module, used for performing frequency increasing and polarity transform processing on the real signal trace, based on the instantaneous amplitude trace, so as to obtain a frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity.
Preferably, the device further comprises the following modules used for further optimizing the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity: a second transformation module, used for performing Hilbert transform on the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity, so as to obtain an instantaneous cosine phase function trace of the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity; and a reconstruction module, used for reconstructing the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace and the instantaneous cosine phase function trace of the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity, so as to optimize the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity.
The reconstruction in the reconstruction module is performed according to the following formula:
z(t)=cos ξ(t)·a(t),
wherein z(t) represents an optimized frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity, cos ξ(t) represents the instantaneous cosine phase function trace of the frequency increasing signal trace, and a(t) represents the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace.
In the frequency increasing and polarity transform processing module, the frequency increasing and polarity transform processing are performed on the real signal trace based on the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace. Specifically, the frequency increasing and polarity transform processing are performed according to the following formula:
y(t)=k1·|x(t)|−k2·a(t),
wherein y(t) represents the frequency increasing signal trace with zero polarity, x(t) represents the real signal trace, a(t) represents the instantaneous amplitude trace of the real signal trace, and k1 and k2 are constants.
The fracturing monitoring data of a shale gas well in a construction site are batch processed according to the method of the present disclosure, and 879 fracturing events and source locations can be obtained. There are 127 strong fracturing events, and others are weak fracturing events.
As shown in
The above embodiments are described only for better understanding, rather than restricting, the present disclosure. Any person skilled in the art can make amendments to the implementing forms or details without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. The protection scope of the present disclosure shall be determined by the scope as defined in the claims.
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2013/084238 | 9/25/2013 | WO | 00 |