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Summary

Reservoir characterization objectives are to estimate the petrophysical properties of the prospective hydrocarbon traps and to reduce the uncertainty of the interpretation. In this framework, we present a workflow for petrophysical joint inversion of seismic and EM attributes to estimate the petrophysical model in terms of porosity and water saturation. This study realizes the joint inversion within the probabilistic structure provided by the Bayesian theory. The algorithm is applied to a real hydrocarbon exploration scenario to evaluate its contribution to the interpretation phase. 3D volumes of estimated porosity and saturation, show how the joint inversion of acoustic impedance and electrical resistivity can provide a quantitative description of the reservoir properties and with it a measure of uncertainty, which is consistent with the petrophysical model and observations.

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2014-02-17
2024-04-24
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