Estimation of reservoir properties of the haynesville shale by using rock-physics modelling and grid searching

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 315-329

  Jiang, Meijuan ^a   Spikes, Kyle T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic properties; Elasticity and anelasticity; Fracture and flow; Probability distributions; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION ESTIMATION; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM MODEL; ELASTICITY AND ANELASTICITY; FRACTURE AND FLOWS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; P- AND S-WAVE VELOCITIES; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ANISOTROPY; ESTIMATION; FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; POROSITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SHALE;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; ANELASTICITY; BRITTLE MEDIUM; ELASTICITY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; POROSITY; PROBABILITY; RESERVOIR ROCK; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHALE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84885800575     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt250     Document Type: Article

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