Petrophysical seismic inversion conditioned to well-log data: Methods and application to a gas reservoir

Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Bosch, Miguel ^a   Carvajal, Carla ^a   Rodrigues, Juan ^a   Torres, Astrid ^a   Aldana, Milagrosa ^b   Sierra, Jesús ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^c IGS Services and Consulting   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PETROPHYSICS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SEISMOLOGY;

DETERMINISTIC COMPONENT; INVERSE PROBLEM FORMULATIONS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO SAMPLINGS; PETROPHYSICAL INFORMATION; PETROPHYSICAL RELATIONSHIP; POROSITY AND SATURATION; POSTERIOR MARGINAL PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION;

ACOUSTIC LOGGING;

DATA INVERSION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; INVERSE PROBLEM; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WELL LOGGING;

EID: 63049098323     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3043796     Document Type: Article

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