oa The Challenge of Predicting Fluid Properties in Carbonate Rocks

Predicting fluid phase from geophysical (i.e. normally seismic) data in carbonate reservoir rocks is a challenging task, especially in exploration problems with limited data access and uncertain geological process understanding. This is due to the frequent occurrence of poor seismic amplitude quality in these high velocity and heterogeneous environments, lack of predictive capabilities of rock properties in the complex compaction processes and methodological doubt in how various fluid types and mixes control the seismic properties and in turn the seismic reflectivity caused by carbonate reservoir rocks.