Geophysical Reservoir Characterization of Pickerill Field, North Sea, Using 3-D Seismic and Well Data

1996 ◽  
pp. 153-177
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Reservoir Characterization ◽  
Well Data

High-resolution reservoir characterization by an acoustic impedance inversion of a Tertiary deltaic clinoform system in the North Sea

Geophysics ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. O57-O67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Tetyukhina ◽  
Lucas J. van Vliet ◽  
Stefan M. Luthi ◽  
Kees Wapenaar
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Reservoir Characterization ◽  
Structural Information ◽  
Sampling Rate ◽  
Seismic Inversion ◽  
Acoustic Properties ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Well Data

Fluvio-deltaic sedimentary systems are of great interest for explorationists because they can form prolific hydrocarbon plays. However, they are also among the most complex and heterogeneous ones encountered in the subsurface, and potential reservoir units are often close to or below seismic resolution. For seismic inversion, it is therefore important to integrate the seismic data with higher resolution constraints obtained from well logs, whereby not only the acoustic properties are used but also the detailed layering characteristics. We have applied two inversion approaches for poststack, time-migrated seismic data to a clinoform sequence in the North Sea. Both methods are recursive trace-based techniques that use well data as a priori constraints but differ in the way they incorporate structural information. One method uses a discrete layer model from the well that is propagated laterally along the clinoform layers, which are modeled as sigmoids. The second method uses a constant sampling rate from the well data and uses horizontal and vertical regularization parameters for lateral propagation. The first method has a low level of parameterization embedded in a geologic framework and is computationally fast. The second method has a much higher degree of parameterization but is flexible enough to detect deviations in the geologic settings of the reservoir; however, there is no explicit geologic significance and the method is computationally much less efficient. Forward seismic modeling of the two inversion results indicates a good match of both methods with the actual seismic data.

3D reservoir characterization of a North Sea oil field using quantitative seismic & CSEM interpretation

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Petter Morten ◽  
Friedrich Roth ◽  
David Timko ◽  
Constantin Pacurar ◽  
Anh Kiet Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Reservoir Characterization ◽  
Oil Field

Introduction to this special section: Case studies: Conventionals

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-10
Author(s):  
Shauna Oppert ◽  
Matthew Casey ◽  
Kyle T. Spikes
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Reservoir Characterization ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Well Data ◽  
Conventional Systems ◽  
Innovative Techniques

Case studies, with a focus on conventional systems, provide insight of seismic and well data sets in terms of characterizing reservoirs with innovative techniques and approaches. This special section contains three such papers from three different regions: offshore Brazil, the North Sea, and the Middle East. Each contribution presents a different geologic problem ranging from siliciclastics to volcanics to carbonates. The challenges faced in each paper were tackled using innovative approaches to reservoir characterization in complex geologic regions.

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