With increasing availability of high quality seismic data, the search for and use of Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators (DHIs) during any exploration campaign has become commonplace.
However, not all DHIs are obvious and it is therefore crucial that before entering an exploration interpretation process, adequate time is spent determining the likely rock property behaviours and their seismic manifestations.
Figure 1 provides an illustration of such a case, where the hydrocarbon bearing reservoir becomes invisible on conventional stack data (Waters and Kemper, 2014).