Multi-transient electromagnetic repeatability experiment over the North Sea Harding field

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1159-1176

  Ziolkowski, Anton ^a,c   Parr, Ronnie ^b   Wright, David ^a,c   Nockles, Victoria ^c   Limond, Christopher ^c,d   Morris, Ed ^c   Linfoot, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BP Burnside Industrial Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c PGS   (United Kingdom)

^d BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Electromagnetism (EM); Time lapse

Indexed keywords

ARCHIE'S LAW; BLOW DOWN; CORRELATED NOISE; DATA SETS; FLUID SATURATIONS; HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION; INITIAL STATE; ISOTROPIC MODELS; MONITORING HYDROCARBON; NORTH SEA; OIL RIM; PRE-PRODUCTION; RESISTIVITY CHANGES; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SOURCE CURRENTS; SYNTHETIC DATA; SYNTHETIC-TIME; TIME-LAPSE; TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS; TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETICS; WAVE FORMS;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; HYDROCARBON REFINING; HYDROCARBONS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURVEYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

DATA INVERSION; DECONVOLUTION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 78650459392     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2010.00882.x     Document Type: Article

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