Characterization of fractured reservoirs by effective medium modelling and joint inversion of seismic and production data

Journal of Seismic Exploration

Volumn 16, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 177-198

  Jakobsen, Morten ^a   Skjervheim, Jan Arild ^a   Aanonsen, Sigurd Ivar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anisotropic media; Fracture model based; Seismic history matching

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA INVERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 37549072641     PISSN: 09630651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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