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Volume 52, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0812-3985
  • E-ISSN: 1834-7533

Abstract

Seismic inversion methods are routinely used to estimate attributes such as P-impedance, S-impedance, density, P-wave and S-wave velocity, and elastic impedances from seismic and well log data. These attributes help to understand subsurface lithology and fluid content. There are several types of seismic inversion methods available in which model-based inversion has got more attention. In the present study, the model-based inversion and geostatistical methods namely probabilistic neural network (PNN), multi-layer feed-forward neural network (MLFN) and radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) are implemented to estimate acoustic impedance, porosity, density, gamma-ray volume and P-wave velocity in the inter-well region of the F-3 block, Netherlands. The aim of the study is to predict a number of petrophysical parameters and demonstrate how they can be used to interpret seismic reflection data. A comparative study is also performed to estimate the best suitable method to predict various petrophysical parameters. The assessment of inverted results demonstrates that the impedance in the region varies from 2550 m/s*g/cc to 6150 m/s/*g/cc, which is relatively low and indicates the presence of loose formation in the area. The correlation between synthetic seismic trace and initial seismic trace is estimated to be 0.98, and the synthetic relative error as 0.19, indicating excellent algorithm output. Further, the assessment of the geostatistical methods is carried out to predict petrophysical parameters in conjunction with Multi-Attribute Transform Analysis. The analysis shows that among the geostatistical methods, the PNN provides slightly better results. The petrophysical parameters that are estimated in this study are porosity, density, gamma-ray, and P-wave velocity volumes. These parameters reinforce the interpretation of seismic data, which is a significant step in any project of exploration and production. The technique is first implemented to the composite traces near to the well location, and the findings are analysed with well log data. Second, the entire seismic section is inverted for porosity, density, gamma-ray, and P-wave velocity after achieving satisfactory outcomes in the first step. The assessment demonstrates very high-resolution subsurface petrophysical parameters which strengthen the seismic data interpretation.

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Keyword(s): 3D modelling; characterisation; impedance; inversion; neural networks

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