Conditioning Surface-Based Geological Models to Well and Thickness Data

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 873-893

  Bertoncello, Antoine ^a   Sun, Tao ^b,c   Li, Hongmei ^b   Mariethoz, Gregoire ^d   Caers, Jef ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Event based models; Geostatistics; Quantitative stratigraphy; Turbidite

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

EVENT-BASED MODEL; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOLOGICAL VARIATIONS; GEOSTATISTICAL SIMULATION METHODS; GEOSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; ITERATIVE METHODOLOGY; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; TURBIDITE;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTATISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY; TURBIDITE; WELL;

EID: 84884909500     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-013-9455-4     Document Type: Article

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