AVA inversion of the top Utsira Sand reflection at the Sleipner field

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Rabben, Tor Erik ^a   Ursin, Bjørn ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COVARIANCE MATRIX; MAPPING; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES;

AMPLITUDE EXTRACTIONS; AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; COVARIANCE MATRICES; FLUID SUBSTITUTION; GASSMANN'S EQUATIONS; INVERSION PROCEDURE; LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; ZOEPPRITZ EQUATIONS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA INVERSION; ELASTIC WAVE; FLUID INJECTION; MAPPING METHOD; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; NORWAY; SLEIPNER FIELD;

EID: 84857300994     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3567951     Document Type: Article

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