Seismic-driven pore and fracture pressure prediction, Permian Basin, Martin County, TX

3D seismic data is only geophysical data which has good lateral sampling. Therefore, the use of seismic data to predict elastic properties away from a well is a widely used process. However transforming these elastic properties into geomechanical and other reservoir properties requires integration of different data sets (e.g. wireline logs, core and cuttings) at various scales. The integration of all data sets is essential for de-risking seismic amplitude supported interpretations. This study demonstrates how this approach and methodology was used to help predict important engineering properties in 3D space and away from any well control. The final inverted volumes were used to pick minimum intermediate casing points and, to predict maximum and minimum mud-weights both of which provide significant capital savings in casing design and/or lost bottom hole assemblies.