Optimization of reservoir parameters is an important issue in petroleum exploration and production. The Ant Colony Optimization(ACO) is a recent approach to solve discrete and continuous optimization problems. In this paper, the Ant Colony Optimization is usedas an intelligent tool to estimate reservoir rock properties. The methodology is illustrated by using a case study on shear wave velocity...

In this paper, 2D seismic data and petrophysical logs of the Pabdeh Formation from four wells of the Mansuri oil field are utilized. ΔLog R method was used to generate a continuous TOC log from petrophysical data. The calculated TOC values by ΔLog R method, used for a multi-attribute seismic analysis. In this study, seismic inversion was performed based on neural networks algorithm and the resu...

Multi-dimensional and multi-variable heterogeneous petrophysical reservoir models were constructed based on stochastic analysis of well logs. With a full wave form visco-elastic finite difference modeling software, a numerical experiment (cross borehole survey) was conducted to study the impact of Pand S-wave scattering, wave mode conversion, leaky mode mechanism and their integration on the ap...

Joint inversion of different geophysical data sets has recently received considerable attention. Different geophysical methods are sensitive to different physical properties and their variations on different scales, and joint inversion provides a way to combine these complementary information contained in each data set by integrating all the geophysical data into a single inversion scheme. The ...

Gas storage and flow behavior in the shale gas rocks are complex and hard to identify by conventional core analysis. This study integrates clustering analysis techniques from material science, petrophysics, and petrology to characterize North American shale gas samples from Utica, Haynesville, and Fayetteville shale gas plays. High pressure (up to 60,000 psi) mercury porosimetry analysis (MICP)...

Aquifers are increasingly stressed. Managed aquifer recharge provides a potential solution to mitigate this stress and provide sustainable groundwater resources. Subsurface properties known have strong control on the infiltration rates that can be achieved. However, these often highly heterogeneous difficult assess with conventional probing techniques. Here, we show application of 3D geophysica...