Upstream petroleum

Refining geostatistical models in order to better take into account and decrease uncertainties.


Upstream petroleum

Interest in new geostatistical technologies has constantly been increasing during recent years in the upstream petroleum field. By proposing solutions based on M-GS, a high precision geostatistical technology, ESTIMAGES sets its development in that of a sector concerned about the quality of its models.


GEOSTATISTICAL SOLUTIONS


GEOPHYSICS


Quality control and seismic velocities filtering

Evaluation of the amount of artefacts into a velocity field.
Optimal filtering of velocities for time-to-depth conversion, angle studies, overpressure analysis, Dix velocities computation, etc.

Seismic velocity cube
Amount of artefact for each data sample
Anomalies reporting
Seismic velocities – Quality control
Raw data Amount of artefacts Anomalies reporting


Filtering amplitudes

Footprint removal, filtering of non-stationary random, horizontal noises, etc. with optimal preservation of the signal through the consideration of the data’s local structural characteristics (M-GS technology).

Raw amplitudes
M-parameters
Final amplitudes
Post-stack amplitudes – Anti-footprint and 3D M-GS filtering
Noisy amplitudes M-parameters computation Filtered amplitudes


Gridding

Gridding of scatter velocities, building of 3D cubes based on 2D lines (misties analysis), velocity fields merging, etc.

GEOLOGY

M-GS facies and petrophysical properties simulations (non-stationary simulations)
CLIENTS

• National Oil&Gas companies
• Independent Oil&Gas companies
• Geophysical contractors
• Software publishers


SERVICES

Studies and Consulting
Technological transfert


M-GS
TECHNOLOGY

M-GS simulation
Porosity simulation driven by a geobody (euclidian grid)


Since it allows to take into account the structural non-stationarity of a data set, M-GS applied to the field of petroleum studies enables to obtain better quality geostatistical analysis and processing than those obtained using a conventional geostatistical approach.

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EXPERIENCE

ESTIMAGES has an experience in the sector which has enabled it to develop geostatistical algorithms dedicated to the operational processing of large quantities of data.



REFERENCES



Central Petroleum
ConocoPhillips Australia
GdF Suez
Inpex
Shell Development Australia
Total
Total E&P Australia



ESTIMAGES has provided TOTAL with geostatistical studies since 2008, through a Master Service Agreement.