Feasibility of using full tensor gradient (FTG) data for detection of local lateral density contrasts during reservoir monitoring

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 795-820

  Droujinine, Alexander ^a,c   Vasilevsky, Alexander ^b   Evans, Russ ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

FTG; Regularized inversion; Reservoir monitoring

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; GRAVITY FIELD; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NOISE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250174819     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.02806.x     Document Type: Article

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