Multiscenario, multirealization seismic inversion for probabilistic seismic reservoir characterization

Author(s):  
K. Waters ◽  
Michael Kemper
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. T927-T940
Author(s):  
Satinder Chopra ◽  
Ritesh Kumar Sharma ◽  
James Keay

The Delaware and Midland Basins are multistacked plays with production being drawn from different zones. Of the various prospective zones in the Delaware Basin, the Bone Spring and Wolfcamp Formations are the most productive and thus are the most drilled zones. To understand the reservoirs of interest and identify the hydrocarbon sweet spots, a 3D seismic inversion project was undertaken in the northern part of the Delaware Basin in 2018. We have examined the reservoir characterization exercise for this dataset in two parts. In addition to a brief description of the geology, we evaluate the challenges faced in performing seismic inversion for characterizing multistacked plays. The key elements that lend confidence in seismic inversion and the quantitative predictions made therefrom are well-to-seismic ties, proper data conditioning, robust initial models, and adequate parameterization of inversion analysis. We examine the limitations of a conventional approach associated with these individual steps and determine how to overcome them. Later work will first elaborate on the uncertainties associated with input parameters required for executing rock-physics analysis and then evaluate the proposed robust statistical approach for defining the different lithofacies.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
M. Asad ◽  
H.U. Rahim

AbstractThe lower Indus basin is one of the prolific basins in Pakistan in which the C-interval of lower Goru formation act as a reservoir. With the help of petrophysical interpretation production zone is recognized and also porosity is calculated at the reservoir level. Through porosity we are able to calculate Ksat. A model based inversion of 2D seismic inversion was performed to ascertain three dimensional dispersion of acoustic impedance in the investigation zone and we have recognized new areas where porosity distribution is maximum and site which is suitable for new well. Porosity and Acoustic impedance are typically contrarily relative to each other. Presently porosity can be anticipated in seismic reservoir characterization by utilizing acoustic impedance from seismic inversion far from well position.


2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 283-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shefa Ul KARIM ◽  
Md Shofiqul ISLAM ◽  
Mohammad Moinul HOSSAIN ◽  
Md Aminul ISLAM

2020 ◽  
pp. SP509-2019-88
Author(s):  
David P. Gold ◽  
Francois Baillard ◽  
Rajat Rathore ◽  
Zhengmin Zhang ◽  
Safrin Arbi

AbstractThe New Guinea Limestone Group was deposited across much of New Guinea, including the Indonesian provinces of West Papua and Papua, as part of a widespread shallow-water carbonate platform during the Paleogene and Neogene. This platform was drowned beneath deeper-water strata from the Middle to Late Miocene. Review of biostratigraphic and seismic data from the Aru Basin, offshore New Guinea, reveals a drowning succession c. 600 m thick deposited during a drowning event that lasted around 4 Ma. The objective of this study was to create a well-to-seismic tie from a single well in the study area using biostratigraphic, seismic and log data. The well-to-seismic tie was built to constrain a new velocity model to better image the drowned carbonate platform and understand the reservoir potential of the drowning succession in the zone of interest using two complimentary techniques: seismic reservoir characterization and numerical stratigraphic forward modelling. The well-to-seismic tie was achieved by matching significant biostratigraphic events, such as unconformities, with seismic horizons using stratigraphy-to-seismic. Modern stratigraphic and seismic reservoir characterization techniques, including stratigraphy-to-seismic, numerical forward modelling, velocity model building, rock physics and seismic inversion, were applied to predict rock properties such as lithology and porosity within the drowning succession.


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