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Summary

We consider joint prediction of lithology/fluid classes, petrophysical properties and elastic attributes in a Bayesian spatial framework based on a set of geophysical observations. A probabilistic model accounting for both vertical and lateral spatial dependency is proposed based on a Markov random field prior model for the lithology/fluid classes. We discuss in specific the rock physics model for the elastic attributes, which is well-known to be multimodal and skewed due to the presence of different lithology/fluid classes and saturation effects of the subsurface. The posterior model is assessed by an efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm. The proposed workflow is demonstrated on a Norwegian Sea gas discovery, with realistic spatial continuity in the predictions.

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2019-09-02
2024-04-23
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