Time‐lapse tomography
| Autor: | Giuliana Rossi, G. Madrussani, Gualtiero Böhm, Aldo Vesnaver, Jan Pajchel, Flavio Accaino, Giancarlo Dal Moro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| Zdroj: | GEOPHYSICS. 68:815-823 |
| ISSN: | 1942-2156 0016-8033 |
| DOI: | 10.1190/1.1581034 |
| Popis: | In time‐lapse analysis, we have to distinguish the seismic response changes due to oil and gas production at a reservoir over the years from several other causes, such as the recording signature and random noise. In this paper, we focus our attention on the velocity macromodel provided by seismic tomography, which is a basic tool for the data regularization, its depth or time migration, and a possible final subtraction among different vintages. We show first that we cannot use just a single velocity model for all data sets, because of seasonal variations of the overburden velocity (which is mainly due to seawater temperature in marine cases and to the water table depth in land cases). However, we can exploit the basic assumption of time‐lapse analysis for constraining reflection/refraction tomography, i.e., by imposing the constraint that the layer structure and the local velocities do not change outside the reservoir (and in the shallowest part) over time. We thus get coupled models that are physically consistent, with a better spatial coverage and higher information redundancy. The new method is illustrated by a marine case history from the North Sea. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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