Changes in reservoir properties resulting from extracting hydrocarbons and injecting fluid are critical to optimize production. These properties can be characterized using waveform inversions of time-lapse seismic data. The conventional approach for analysis using waveform tomography is to take the difference of seismic inversion obtained using baseline and subsequent time-lapse datasets that a...

Time-lapse seismic data are widely used for monitoring timevariant subsurface changes. Conventional analysis provides qualitative information by comparing results from consecutive surveys, whereas waveform inversion can retrieve quantitative estimates of reservoir properties through seismic waveform fitting. The quantitative evaluation of the physical parameters obtained by waveform inversion a...

The focus of our study is lithology/fluid inversion with spatial coupling from prestack seismic amplitude variation with offset AVO data and well observations. The inversion is defined in a Bayesian setting where the complete solution is the posterior model. The prior model for the lithology/fluid LF characteristics is defined as a profile Markov randomfield model with lateral continuity. Each ...

History matching provides to the reservoir engineers an improved spatial distribution of physical properties to be used in forecasting the reservoir response for field management. The ill-posed character of the history matching problem yields non-uniqueness and numerical instabilities that increase with the reservoir complexity. These features might cause local optimization methods to provide u...

The conventional approach in reservoir characterization uses an extrapolation of petrophysical properties calculated from well logs determining the entire field volume. This technique fails to acknowledge/ factor heterogeneity a reservoir, and consequently leads errors capacity quantification. research work employs deterministic seismic inversion each sand. First, sand was identified intervals ...

We perform a feasibility study on the likelihood of seismically detecting and interpreting the time-varying changes in a North Sea reservoir during solution-gas-drive oil production from a horizontal well. This study integrates reservoir engineering fluid-flow simulations, rock physics measurements and transformations, and prestack seismic modeling and migration on a real but anonymous North Se...

Seismic amplitudes contain important information which can be related to fluid saturation. The amplitude-versus-offset (AVO) analysis of seismic data based on Gassmann’s theory and approximation of the Zoeppritz equations, has played an central role in reservoir characterization. However, this standard technique faces a long standing problem, its inability to distinguish between partial gas and...

Mapping, localization, and general characterization of problems in reservoir fracture systems is one of the most important in oil, gas, and geothermal energy production. One way to study and monitor these fracture systems is to analyze the microearthquakes triggered during hydraulic fracturing or stimulation, as these events generally occur along newly created and preexisting fractures. Thus, t...