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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
May. 09, 2012
Christopher Dicaprio, Houston, TX (US);
Jan Schmedes, Bellaire, TX (US);
Charlie Jing, Houston, TX (US);
Garrett M. Leahy, Kerrville, TX (US);
Anoop A. Mullur, Houston, TX (US);
Rebecca L. Saltzer, Houston, TX (US);
Christopher DiCaprio, Houston, TX (US);
Jan Schmedes, Bellaire, TX (US);
Charlie Jing, Houston, TX (US);
Garrett M. Leahy, Kerrville, TX (US);
Anoop A. Mullur, Houston, TX (US);
Rebecca L. Saltzer, Houston, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream research Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Method for estimating geological properties in a subsurface region using multiple types of geophysical data (). An initial physical properties modelis constructed. Some parameters in the model are frozen () and optionally portions of the model wave number and spatial domains () and the data frequency and data time domains (), are also frozen. Then, a joint inversion () of the multiple data types is performed to calculate an update to the model only for the portions that are not frozen. The converged model () for this inversion is used as a new starting model, and the process is repeated (), possibly several times, unfreezing more parameters and data each time until the desired spatial and parameter resolution () has been achieved.