Affiliation:
1. Schlumberger-Doll Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA..
Abstract
We have developed a deterministic multiphysics joint inversion approach integrating seismic, electromagnetic (EM), and production data to map relevant reservoir properties, such as permeability and porosity, and the time evolution of the flooding front movement, i.e., saturation changes with time. These measurements are complementary in terms of their sensitivity to individual reservoir properties and their coverage of reservoir volumes. As a consequence, integration reduces ambiguities in the interpretation. In the workflow, a reservoir model is first built based on prior information. The production data are simulated by evolving the model in time based on the known well-control strategy. Simultaneously, the temporal and spatial distribution of fluid properties, such as saturation, salt concentration, density, and pressure are also obtained from the forward modeling. These properties, together with in situ rock properties, are transformed to formation resistivity and elastic properties using prescribed petrophysical relationships, such as Archie’s law and effective medium rock-physics models. From the transformation results, synthetic EM and full-waveform seismic data can be subsequently simulated. A Gauss-Newton optimization scheme is used to iteratively update the reservoir permeability and porosity fields until the mismatch between the synthetic data and the observed data becomes less than a predefined threshold. This inverse problem is usually highly underdetermined; hence, it is necessary to bring in prior information to further constrain the inversion. Different regularization approaches are investigated to facilitate incorporation of prior information into the joint inversion algorithm.
Publisher
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Subject
Geochemistry and Petrology,Geophysics
Cited by
23 articles.
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