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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Earth Sci.

Sec. Economic Geology

Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feart.2025.1642287

This article is part of the Research TopicAdvances in Accumulation Conditions of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources in Complicated Structure AreasView all 9 articles

Fracture Prediction Method and Application Based on Multi-Attribute Fusion Generative Adversarial Network

Provisionally accepted
Yongheng  ZhangYongheng ZhangXingjian  WangXingjian Wang*Yang  LiYang LiXudong  JiangXudong JiangHan  ZhangHan Zhang
  • Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China

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In complex structural zones shaped by multi-phase tectonic movements, the coexistence of diverse structural origins and intricate hydrocarbon accumulation conditions makes fracture prediction a critical technical challenge in oil and gas exploration. Current methods face two key limitations: conventional single-attribute seismic analysis falls short of satisfying high-precision fracture detection requirements, while deep learning approaches, despite their progress, suffer from poor generalization due to limited training samples. To address these issues, this study proposes a multi-attribute fusion method that synergistically combines Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) and U-Net++. The proposed approach effectively enlarges the training dataset while maintaining geological fidelity, empowering the trained network to hierarchically extract fracture features across multiple scales. Field tests show our method achieves precise alignment with well-log interpretations and delivers superior performance to conventional attribute-based techniques in both major and micro-fracture identification, demonstrating superior noise resistance and generalizability for fracture prediction across different study areas.

Keywords: Multi-attribute calculations, Generate adversarial network, U-Net++, Fault characterization, Dataset

Received: 06 Jun 2025; Accepted: 24 Sep 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Zhang, Wang, Li, Jiang and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Xingjian Wang, wangxi@cdut.edu.cn

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