Direct inversion for sensitive elastic parameters of deep reservoirs

The deep reservoir is usually a type of tight reservoir with high pressure, high stress, low permeability and low porosity. The elastic parameters including Poisson’s ratio and Young’s modulus are important sensitive parameters to the tight reservoir, and the Gassmann fuid term is frequently used in the feld of fuid identifcation as a highly sensitive fuid factor. Such parameters can be obtained by the common prestack seismic inversion method, but not directly. It must frst invert for other elastic parameters and then convert them into the Poisson’s ratio, Young’s modulus and Gassmann fuid term by some formula. The errors will be accumulated in the conversion step, and the inversion results will have a large deviation. We propose a one-step inversion method to solve this problem. Firstly, a new form of P-wave refection coefcient equation in terms of Poisson’s ratio, Young’s modulus and Gassmann fuid term is derived which can directly establish the functional relationship between the P-wave refection coefcient and these elastic parameters. Considering seismic data of deep reservoir generally have a lower signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) and the partial angle stack gather has a higher S/N than single angle gather, we then derive a stack impedance equation which is suitable for the partial angle stack gather. By using three stacked impedance inversion data with diferent angle stack ranges, we can directly get the Poisson’s ratio, Young’s modulus and Gassmann fuid term simultaneously. Model and real data tests both prove that the one-step direct inversion method can reduce the cumulative errors efectively and has higher inversion accuracy.

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Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa Nr 461252 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2020).