Seismic facies identification and classification using simple statistics

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 984-990

  John, Abraham K ^a,b   Lake, Larry W ^a   Torres Verdin, Carlos ^a   Srinivasan, Sanjay ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Shell International Exploration and Production

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; MAPPING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PETROPHYSICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEISMOLOGY; THEOREM PROVING; WELL LOGGING;

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; PETROPHYSICAL ANALYSIS; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;

DEPOSITION;

CLASSIFICATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; MAPPING METHOD; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; VARIOGRAM; WELL LOGGING;

EID: 59649087716     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/96577-pa     Document Type: Article

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