Quantitative log interpretation and uncertainty propagation of petrophysical properties and facies classification from rock-physics modeling and formation evaluation analysis

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Grana, Dario ^a,b   Pirrone, Marco ^b   Mukerji, Tapan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ENI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Borehole geophysics; Log analysis; Modeling; Rock physics; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROPHYSICS; ROCKS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICS; WELL LOGGING;

BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE; LOG ANALYSIS; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; ROCK PHYSICS; UNCERTAINTY EVALUATION; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION; FORMATION EVALUATION; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; ELASTIC PROPERTY; FACIES ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR ROCK; ROCK PROPERTY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WELL LOGGING;

EID: 84861715683     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0272.1     Document Type: Article

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