A complex sand-shale facies model conditioned on observations from wells, seismics and production

A complex sand-shale facies model conditioned on observations from wells, seismics and production


by Håkon Tjelmeland and Henning Omre (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), in Baafi, E.Y. and Schofield, N.A. (eds.) Geostatistics Wollongong '96, Proceedings of the Fifth International Geostatistical Congress, Wollongong, Australia, September 22-27, 1996, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 634-643.
The principal challenge of reservoir characterization is integration of different types of information. Assessing the resulting uncertainty is also important. The current paper extends the sand-shale model presented by Haldorsen and Lake in 1984, by allowing a more flexible prior model based on general reservoir information and by including both well observations, seismic data and production history. A schematic example is presented.