Seismic imaging of reservoir flow properties: Time-lapse amplitude changes

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1425-1442

  Vasco, Don W ^a   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^b   Behrens, Ron ^c   Condon, Pat ^c   Rickett, James ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEISMOLOGY;

RESERVOIR FLOW PROPERTIES; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; SEISMIC IMAGING; TIME-LAPSE SEISMIC DATA; ASYMPTOTIC METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; ITERATIVE INVERSION; OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS; RESERVOIR PERMEABILITY;

SEISMOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

FLOW STRUCTURE; GEOPHYSICS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; SEISMIC METHOD;

EID: 12144275650     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1836817     Document Type: Article

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