Multi-Component And Elastic Parameter Inversion

It is now well recognized that producing a high quality, quantitative reservoir model requires a<br>multi-disciplinary team effort with contributions from engineers, geologists, petrophysicists and<br>geophysicists (interpreters). The geophysicist’s main task in this process is to bring in seismic<br>information as this provides the prime source of information about the spatial distribution of<br>reservoir properties. However, seismic data, s geophysicists it is not sufficient to just bring in<br>Seismic amplitude data characterizes interface reflection strength. All other disciplines work<br>exclusively in the layer and layer property domain. Interface reflection strength is a subsurface<br>property not readily understood by the other disciplines contributing to reservoir model<br>development. This motivates application of inversion to turn seismic data into impedance, which<br>is a layer property, and as such is understood by all the disciplines.