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Target-Oriented Inversion of Time-Lapse Seismic Waveform Data

Xingguo Huang, Morten Jakobsen, Kjersti Solberg Eikrem & Geir Nævdal

Commun. Comput. Phys., 28 (2020), pp. 249-275.

Published online: 2020-05

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  • Abstract

Full waveform inversion of time-lapse seismic data can be used as a means of estimating the reservoir changes due to the production. Since the repeated computations for the monitor surveys lead to a large computational cost, time-lapse full waveform inversion is still considered to be a challenging task. To address this problem, we present an efficient target-oriented inversion scheme for time-lapse seismic data using an integral equation formulation with Gaussian beam based Green's function approach. The proposed time-lapse approach allows one to perform a local inversion within a small region of interest (e.g. a reservoir under production) for the monitor survey. We have verified that the T-matrix approach is indeed naturally target-oriented, which was mentioned by Jakobsen and Ursin [24] and allows one to reduce the computational cost of time-lapse inversion by focusing the inversion on the target-area only. This method is based on a new version of the distorted Born iterative T-matrix inverse scattering method. The Gaussian beam and T-matrix are used in this approach to perform the wavefield computation for the time-lapse inversion in the baseline model from the survey surface to the target region. We have provided target-oriented inversion results of the synthetic time-lapse waveform data, which shows that the proposed scheme reduces the computational cost significantly.

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81U40, 74J25, 74J20, 45Dxx

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xingguo.huang19@gmail.com (Xingguo Huang)

Morten.Jakobsen@uib.no (Morten Jakobsen)

kjei@norceresearch.no (Kjersti Solberg Eikrem)

gena@norceresearch.no (Geir Nævdal)

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@Article{CiCP-28-249, author = {Huang , XingguoJakobsen , MortenSolberg Eikrem , Kjersti and Nævdal , Geir}, title = {Target-Oriented Inversion of Time-Lapse Seismic Waveform Data}, journal = {Communications in Computational Physics}, year = {2020}, volume = {28}, number = {1}, pages = {249--275}, abstract = {

Full waveform inversion of time-lapse seismic data can be used as a means of estimating the reservoir changes due to the production. Since the repeated computations for the monitor surveys lead to a large computational cost, time-lapse full waveform inversion is still considered to be a challenging task. To address this problem, we present an efficient target-oriented inversion scheme for time-lapse seismic data using an integral equation formulation with Gaussian beam based Green's function approach. The proposed time-lapse approach allows one to perform a local inversion within a small region of interest (e.g. a reservoir under production) for the monitor survey. We have verified that the T-matrix approach is indeed naturally target-oriented, which was mentioned by Jakobsen and Ursin [24] and allows one to reduce the computational cost of time-lapse inversion by focusing the inversion on the target-area only. This method is based on a new version of the distorted Born iterative T-matrix inverse scattering method. The Gaussian beam and T-matrix are used in this approach to perform the wavefield computation for the time-lapse inversion in the baseline model from the survey surface to the target region. We have provided target-oriented inversion results of the synthetic time-lapse waveform data, which shows that the proposed scheme reduces the computational cost significantly.

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TY - JOUR T1 - Target-Oriented Inversion of Time-Lapse Seismic Waveform Data AU - Huang , Xingguo AU - Jakobsen , Morten AU - Solberg Eikrem , Kjersti AU - Nævdal , Geir JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 1 SP - 249 EP - 275 PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05 SN - 28 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2018-0143 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/16836.html KW - Waveform inversion, time-lapse seismic, seismic inverse scattering, target-oriented inversion, Gaussian beam based Green's function. AB -

Full waveform inversion of time-lapse seismic data can be used as a means of estimating the reservoir changes due to the production. Since the repeated computations for the monitor surveys lead to a large computational cost, time-lapse full waveform inversion is still considered to be a challenging task. To address this problem, we present an efficient target-oriented inversion scheme for time-lapse seismic data using an integral equation formulation with Gaussian beam based Green's function approach. The proposed time-lapse approach allows one to perform a local inversion within a small region of interest (e.g. a reservoir under production) for the monitor survey. We have verified that the T-matrix approach is indeed naturally target-oriented, which was mentioned by Jakobsen and Ursin [24] and allows one to reduce the computational cost of time-lapse inversion by focusing the inversion on the target-area only. This method is based on a new version of the distorted Born iterative T-matrix inverse scattering method. The Gaussian beam and T-matrix are used in this approach to perform the wavefield computation for the time-lapse inversion in the baseline model from the survey surface to the target region. We have provided target-oriented inversion results of the synthetic time-lapse waveform data, which shows that the proposed scheme reduces the computational cost significantly.

Xingguo Huang, Morten Jakobsen, Kjersti Solberg Eikrem & Geir Nævdal. (2020). Target-Oriented Inversion of Time-Lapse Seismic Waveform Data. Communications in Computational Physics. 28 (1). 249-275. doi:10.4208/cicp.OA-2018-0143
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