A Comparison of Travel-Time and Amplitude Matching for Field-Scale Production Data Integration: Sensitivity, Non-Linearity and Practical Implications

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 5287-5300

  Cheng, Hao ^a   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^a   He, Zhong ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOLOGY; INTEGRATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OIL WELL DRILLING; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OIL WELLS; POROSITY; SANDSTONE; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; VECTORS;

DATA INTEGRATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

OIL FIELDS;

EID: 1142264236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/84570-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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