A method of locating subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs includes acquiring
seismic data, dividing the seismic data into time windows, applying a
data transform to the seismic data having a plurality of components to
obtain a smoothed frequency spectrum, selecting one or more local maxima
and minima, determining a frequency product as a function of the maxima
and minima in a form for display. Lower and higher ratio thresholds may
be selected to further discriminate frequency product selection for
display. A display or map of frequency products over a survey area may
indicate the presence of subsurface fluid reservoirs.