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Volume 54, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0812-3985
  • E-ISSN: 1834-7533

Abstract

The Permian coal seams in eastern Yunnan and western Guizhou are thin, numerous, and staggered with other thin coal seams. Depicting the fine characteristics of coal reservoirs is pivotal for the safe and efficient exploitation of coal and coalbed methane (CBM), and is important for transparent mining. To improve the inverse resolution and accuracy of predicting reservoir thickness, this study used the model-based acoustic impedance (AI) inversion method that utilizes seismic and logging data. This method changes seismic data, reflecting stratigraphic interfaces, into AI data, reflecting lithologic structures. Moreover, it avoids the relevant assumptions of wavelets and reflection coefficients. Compared with other inversion methods, model-based AI inversion strengthens the description of thin reservoir horizontal and vertical changes. The results showed that comprehensively using intermediate-frequency seismic information and high-low-frequency logging data greatly broadens the seismic data frequency band and improves the dominant frequency of the reflected wave. Furthermore, the AI profile resolution and the prediction accuracy of the physical parameters for the target geological body can be improved. A cross-validation comparing the inverted thickness and measured thickness of borehole cores was applied to achieve fine prediction (error of appropriately 0.02–0.4 m), providing a basis for CBM development.

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Application of model-based acoustic impedance inversion in the prediction of thin interbedded coal seams: a case study in the Yuwang colliery, Yunnan Province
Exploration Geophysics 54, 407 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1080/08123985.2022.2155514
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Keyword(s): CBM; geophysical exploration; model-based AI inversion; Reservoir prediction; thin interbedded coal seams

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