Estimating reservoir permeabilities using the seismic response to CO2 injection and stochastic inversion

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Volumn 16, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ramirez, A ^a   White, D ^b   Hao, Y ^a   Dyer, K ^a   Johnson, J ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Geophysics; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Monitoring; Seismic reflection

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DIGITAL STORAGE; GEOPHYSICS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONITORING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROSITY; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

GEOSTATISTICAL METHOD; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; RESERVOIR PERMEABILITY; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; STEPWISE REFINEMENT;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DATA INVERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONITORING SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

EID: 84878114238     PISSN: 17505836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2012.11.031     Document Type: Article

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