Ray-based stochastic inversion of prestack seismic data for improved reservoir characterization

Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  van der Burg, Dennis ^a,b   Verdel, Arie ^c   Wapenaar, Kees ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Petroleum Geo Services B V   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFLECTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; WELL DRILLING;

DYNAMIC RAY TRACING; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; KIRCHHOFF MIGRATION; OPTIMAL RESOLUTION; PRE-STACK SEISMIC DATA; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR PARAMETERS; SUBSURFACE TARGETS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AVO METHOD; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA INVERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; KIRCHHOFF EQUATION; PRESTACK MIGRATION; RAY TRACING; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; STOCHASTICITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 71049162982     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3190131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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