Seismic-driven Rock Property Estimation for a Deep Carbonate Reservoir in Kuwait

Estimating physical properties of rocks, such as lithology and porosity, has become an integral part of most seismic reservoir characterization workflows. For Middle East carbonate reservoirs this is generally not a trivial task, main problems are the quality of the seismic data and the rock physics of carbonate reservoirs. We discuss an integrated workflow that addresses seismic processing issues such as multiples, depth imaging and inversion, and look at the applicability of conventional rock physics models to a deep carbonate reservoir in Kuwait.