Seismic inversion for reservoir properties combining statistical rock physics and geostatistics: A review

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Bosch, Miguel ^a   Mukerji, Tapan ^b   Gonzalez, Ezequiel F ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ELASTICITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SEISMOLOGY;

BAYESIAN FORMULATION; ELASTIC PARAMETERS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; GEOSTATISTICAL METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; ROCK PHYSICS MODEL; SEQUENTIAL APPROACH; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS;

STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; DATA INVERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; ROCK MECHANICS; SEISMIC DATA; STOCHASTICITY; ELASTIC PROPERTY; LITHOLOGY; POROSITY;

EID: 84864156191     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3478209     Document Type: Review

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