An overview of Hampson-Russells new Joint Inversion Program

Dan Hampson Brian Russell Keith Hirsche

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Objective

Objective of Joint Inversion:

To analyze pre-stack CDP gathers and invert for Zp, Zs, and (optionally) Density ().

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Introduction
Our current practice is to invert separately for Zp, Zs, and . An example of this procedure is LMR analysis:

Gathers AVO Analysis

RP Estimate RS Estimate Invert to ZP Invert to ZS

Transform to and Cross-plot

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Introduction
The problem with this approach is that it ignores the fact that Zp and Zs should be related. For example, we expect that from Castagnas equation, Vp and Vs should be more or less linearly related, with variations precisely where there are hydrocarbons. Similarly, should be related to Vp by some form of generalized Gardners equation.
ARCOs original mudrock derivation (Castagna et al, Geophysics, 1985)
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Introduction

The objective of joint inversion is to include some form of coupling between the variables. This should add stability to a problem that is ill-conditioned: - very sensitive to noise - very non-unique. A second objective is to create a joint inversion which is consistent with Strata for the case of zero-offset.

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Joint Inversion Theory

We start with the modification of Aki-Richards equation as per Fatti et al:

RPP ( ) = c1RP + c2 RS + c3 RD
where:

c1 = 1 + tan 2 c2 = 8 2 sin 2 1 c3 = tan 2 + 2 2 sin 2 2 V = S VP

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RP =

1 VP V + 2 P

1 VS + RS = 2 VS RD = .

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Joint Inversion Theory

To simplify this theory, it is common practice to use the small reflectivity approximation. For example, the exact equation for Rp is:

RP (i ) =
But, if we define: we can show that:

Z P (i + 1) Z P (i ) Z P (i + 1) + Z P (i )

LP = ln( Z P ) (natural logarithm)

RP (i ) 1 2 [ LP (i + 1) LP (i )]
Similarly:
LS = log( Z S ) LD = log( )
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RS (i ) 1 2 [ LS (i + 1) LS (i )]

RD (i ) LD (i + 1) LD (i )
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In matrix notation for the P-wave reflectivity this is:

R P = (1 2 ) D L p
or:

RP (1) R (2) P =1 M RP ( N )

1 1 0 L LP (1) 0 1 1 0 L (2) P 2 0 0 1 1 M 0 0 0 L LP ( N )

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Joint Inversion Theory

We add the effect of the wavelet by defining the wavelet matrix:

T = WRp
T (1) T (2) =1 M T ( N ) 0 W1 0 W W 0 1 2 2 W3 W2 W1 0 W3 W2 L 1 1 0 L LP (1) L 0 1 1 0 LP (2) L 0 0 1 1 M L 0 0 0 L LP ( N )

Finally, Fattis equation looks like:

T ( ) = (1 2) c1W ( ) DLP + (1 2)c2W ( ) DLS + c3W ( ) DLD

Note that the wavelet can be different for each angle.
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Joint Inversion Theory

Now we want to make use of the fact that the resulting Zs and should be related to Zp. We use two relationships which should hold for the background wet trend:

VS VP = = constant ln( Z S ) = ln( Z P ) + ln( )

and:

Constant

= aVPb
ln( a ) b ln( Z P ) + ln( ) = 1+ b 1+ b
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Generalized Gardner

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Joint Inversion Theory

More generally, we assume the following relationships for the background trend:

ln( Z S ) = k ln( Z P ) + kc + LS ln( ) = m ln( Z P ) + mc + LD

This assumes that the major trend is linear and that the outliers are the hydrocarbons:

Ln(Zs)

LS

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Ln(Zp)

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More generally, we assume the following relationships for the background trend:

ln( Z S ) = k ln( Z P ) + kc + LS ln( ) = m ln( Z P ) + mc + LD

Ln()

Ln(Zs)

LD

LS

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Ln(Zp)

Ln(Zp)

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Joint inversion theory

This changes Fattis equation to:

% % T ( ) = c1W ( ) DLP + c2W ( ) DLS + c3W ( ) DLD

where:

% c1 = (1 2) c1 + (1 2) kc2 + mc3 % c2 = (1 2) c2

Finally, assume we have a series of traces at various angles. We concatenate the traces into a single vector to get the system:

% % c2 (1 )W (1 ) D c3 (1 )W (1 ) D T (1 ) c1 (1 )W (1 ) D T ( ) c ( )W ( ) D c ( )W ( ) D c ( )W ( ) D LP % %2 2 1 2 2 3 2 2 1 2 LS = M M M M % LD % T ( N ) c1 ( N )W ( N ) D c2 ( N )W ( N ) D c3 ( N )W ( N ) D
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Joint inversion theory

The algorithm looks like this: (1) Given the following information: - A set of N angle traces. - A set of N wavelets, one for each angle. - Initial model values for Zp, Zs, and . (2) Calculate optimal values for k and m using the actual input logs. (3) Set up the initial guess:

[ LP

LS

LD ] = [log( Z P ) 0 0]
T

(4) Solve the system of equations by conjugate gradients. (5) Calculate the final values of Zp, Zs, and :

Z P = exp( LP ) Z S = exp(kLP + kc + LS )
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= exp(mLP + mc + LD )

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Synthetic and real data tests

We now show 2 tests of the joint inversion algorithm: (1) A synthetic data set, showing variations in fluid content from pure gas to pure brine. (2) A real data set from Western Canada.

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Gas/Wet Synthetic Tests

Vp
We produced a series of synthetic gathers corresponding to varying fluid effects:

Vs

Target Zone

100% Gas

100% Wet

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The result at the GAS location Initial guess: Zp Zs

Model

Input

Error

After 50 iterations:

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The result at the WET location Initial guess: Zp Zs

Model

Input

Error

After 50 iterations:

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Zp

Zs

100% Gas

10% Gas

0% Gas

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The synthetic test on a range of CDP gathers

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Original offset gathers

0o

90o

Transformed to angle

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The synthetic test on a range of CDP gathers

Zp

Zs

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Zp

Vp/Vs

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Input gathers

The synthetic test on a range of CDP gathers

Synthetic gathers

Error

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Real Data Test Colony

This test applies the simultaneous inversion algorithm to the Colony data set from Western Canada:

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Real Data Test Colony

Transform to angle gathers:

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Real Data Test Colony

Using the known well, create cross plots to determine the optimum coefficients:

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Real Data Test Colony

Zp

Zs

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Real Data Test Colony

Zp

Vp/Vs

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Real Data Test Colony

Input gathers:

Synthetic data from inversion:

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Real Data Test Colony

Input gathers:

Synthetic error from inversion:

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Comparison between real logs and inversion result at well location

Zp Vp/Vs

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Cross plotting Vp/Vs against Zp using the log curves:

This zone should correspond to gas:

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Zp

Vp/Vs

Gas Zone from log cross plot

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Extension to PS data
Similarly to the Fatti equation, we can write down a linearized expression for the PS reflectivity (Stewart, 1990; Larson, 1999):

RPS ( , ) = c4 RS + c5 RD where : c4 = tan

4 sin 2 4 cos cos ,

tan 1 + 2sin 2 2 cos cos , c5 = 2 and :

= sin 1 ( sin ) .

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Extension to PS data
Combining the expression for the PS reflectivity with the relationships given earlier, we get:

% TPS ( ) = c4W ( ) DLP + ( c4 2 )W ( ) DLS + c5W ( ) DLD , % where : c4 = k ( c4 2 ) + mc5 .

Note that this is exactly the same form as the original equation for TPP:

$ $ $ TPP ( ) = c1W ( ) DLP + c2W ( ) DLS + c3W ( ) DLD

This means that we can (theoretically) handle any combination of PP and PS traces, at any number of angles.

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Joint Inversion Assumptions

(1) Aki-Richards 3-term equation as modified by Fatti. (2) Small reflectivity assumption. (3) Linear relationship between ln(Zs), ln(Zp) and ln() is reasonable. (4) A constant value of = Vs/Vp used in Fatti coefficients. (5) NMO-stretch can be handled by angle-dependent wavelets.

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