Detection of reservoir quality using Bayesian seismic inversion

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Gunning, James ^a   Glinsky, Michael E ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BHP Billiton Petroleum   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes methods; Hydrocarbon reservoirs; Markov processes; Monte Carlo methods; Permeability; Porosity; Rocks; Seismology

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; LITHOLOGY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FLOATING GRAIN FRACTION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS; ROCK-PHYSICS MODEL; SEISMIC AMPLITUDE;

PETROLEUM PROSPECTING;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA INVERSION; DETECTION METHOD; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LITHOLOGY; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOURCE ROCK;

EID: 34248680774     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2713043     Document Type: Article

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