Summary
Post-stack seismic inversion to acoustic impedance (Pendrel and Van Riel, 1997) was successfully performed on a 3D seismic volume over a large carbonate (ramp-type environment) field using an integrated iterative inversion workflow. The inversion results helped generate a structural model that more closely represents true subsurface geology and predicted reservoir porosity. The inversion minimized tuning effects and extended the useable bandwidth of the seismic information by removing the wavelet and its side lobe interference effects (Buxton Latimer et al., 2000). The acoustic impedance results from the inversion showed improved amplitudes and were used to predict a porosity model for the reservoir layers.
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2003. Society of Exploration Geophysicists
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