Elasticity/saturation relationships using flow simulation from an outcrop analogue for 4D seismic modelling

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 205-219

  Kirstetter, Olivier ^a,b,c   Corbett, Patrick ^a   Somerville, Jim ^a   MacBeth, Colin ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CGG   (France)

^c REPSOL YPF   (Spain)

Author keywords

4D seismic; Elasticity scaling up; Flow simulation; Outcrop analogue; Saturation distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BULK MODULUS; DISPLACEMENT; ELASTICITY; FLUID INJECTION; LITHOFACIES; OUTCROP; SATURATION; SEISMIC METHOD;

EID: 33748333322     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079305-653     Document Type: Article

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