Developing a three-dimensional quality factor model of a subterranean formation based on vertical seismic profiles

A system for developing a three-dimensional model of a subterranean formation based on zero offset vertical seismic profiles at a plurality of well locations, the system comprising:

• one or more processing devices and one or more non-transitory machine-readable storage devices storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processing devices to cause performance of operations comprising:
• receiving seismic data for the subterranean formation, the seismic data including the zero offset vertical seismic profiles;
• for each of the zero offset vertical seismic profiles, injecting a ground force into the zero offset vertical seismic profile to provide a reference trace at depth zero in order to estimate energy loss in each receiver providing data in the zero offset vertical seismic profile;
• for each of the zero offset vertical seismic profiles, estimating time and depth variant quality factors for the well location associated with the zero offset vertical seismic profile based on the zero offset vertical seismic profile;
• estimating quality factors for points within a three-dimensional volume representing the subterranean formation by interpolating between the time and depth variant quality factors for the location associated with each zero offset vertical seismic profile;
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• combining the estimated quality factors to generate a three-dimensional quality factor model of the three-dimensional volume representing the subterranean formation.