Title
A synthetic case study of measuring the misfit between 4D seismic data and numerical reservoir simulation models through the Momenta Tree
Date Issued
01 December 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Rollmann K.
Almeida F.
Davolio A.
Hamann B.
Schiozer D.J.
Rocha A.
University of Campinas
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Data assimilation is an important and time-consuming process in petroleum reservoir numerical simulation. It produces a set of calibrated models used to forecast and optimize oil and gas production. The process focuses on reducing uncertainties related to reservoir properties, yielding numerical reservoir models that plausibly reproduce measured data from the field, such as well rates and pressure. Besides the traditional well-production data, 4D seismic data are increasingly being used to reduce the uncertainty of numerical reservoir models, by providing dynamic spatial data to be matched. Although 4D seismic data reveal essential information about the dynamic behavior of the reservoir, its integration in data assimilation procedures is challenging, especially in a quantitative way, because of their noisy and uncertain nature and their larger resolution when compared to the resolution of simulated data from numerical reservoir models. The development of metrics able to efficiently estimate the discrepancies between 4D seismic data and numerical reservoir model outputs is a current research interest for data assimilation, given the challenges of integrating these different types of data. We introduce the Momenta Tree. It uses orthogonal moments supporting a multi-level data representation, where features are organized in nodes related to different levels of region detail. It supports the comparison of simulated data from numerical reservoir models and observed 4D images of seismic data, images, using different resolutions and considering various domains. The similarity between data is calculated with the extended Jaccard distance and is represented by a phylogenetic tree; the simulated models are represented as circles in branches, and their similarity is captured by connections. We apply the Momenta Tree to a controlled case, introduced in this paper, to validate and compare the new metric with traditional metrics, and a more complex representative case based on real oil industry data. Our results show that the Momenta Tree metric retains the same sequential similarity in environments affected by noise. The highest-ranked models using the Momenta Tree relate to forecast behavior closer to the reference data than the highest-ranked models obtained with traditional methods. An additional advantage of the Momenta Tree is its ability to enable data comparison in various domains (P-impedance and Water Saturation) at different resolutions of seismic and simulation data.
Volume
145
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geografía física Geoquímica, Geofísica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85091567016
Source
Computers and Geosciences
ISSN of the container
00983004
DOI of the container
10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104617
Source funding
U.S. Department of Energy
Center of Petroleum Studies
Reservoir Simulation and Seismic 4D
Schlumberger Foundation
Computer Modelling Group
Shell Brasil
Sponsor(s)
This work was carried out in association with the ongoing Project registered under number 20372–9 ANP the “Development of Integration between Reservoir Simulation and Seismic 4D - Phase 2 (University of Campinas [UNICAMP]/Shell Brazil/ANP), funded by Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. under the R&D ANP levy “Investment Commitment to Research and Development. The authors are grateful for the support of the Center of Petroleum Studies (CEPETRO-UNICAMP/Brazil), the Department of Energy (DE-FEM-UNICAMP/Brazil), the Research Group in Reservoir Simulation and Management (UNISIM-UNICAMP/Brazil), and the Energy Simulation, Brazil. In addition, the authors thank Schlumberger and CMG for software licenses. This work was carried out in association with the ongoing Project registered under number 20372–9 ANP the “Development of Integration between Reservoir Simulation and Seismic 4D - Phase 2 (University of Campinas [UNICAMP]/Shell Brazil/ANP), funded by Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. under the R&D ANP levy “Investment Commitment to Research and Development. The authors are grateful for the support of the Center of Petroleum Studies (CEPETRO-UNICAMP/Brazil) , the Department of Energy (DE-FEM-UNICAMP/Brazil) , the Research Group in Reservoir Simulation and Management (UNISIM-UNICAMP/Brazil) , and the Energy Simulation, Brazil . In addition, the authors thank Schlumberger and CMG for software licenses.
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