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Conditioning of Multiple-Point Statistics Facies Simulations to Tomographic Images

Auteur(s)
Lochbühler, Tobias
Pirot, Guillaume 
Centre d'hydrogéologie et de géothermie 
Straubhaar, Julien 
Centre d'hydrogéologie et de géothermie 
Linde, Niklas
Date de parution
2014-7
In
MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES
Vol.
5
No
46
De la page
625
A la page
645
Revu par les pairs
1
Mots-clés
  • Multiple-point statistics
  • Multiple-point direct sampling
  • Geophysical tomography
  • Conditioning
  • Multiple-point statis...

  • Multiple-point direct...

  • Geophysical tomograph...

  • Conditioning

Résumé
Geophysical tomography captures the spatial distribution of the underlying geophysical property at a relatively high resolution, but the tomographic images tend to be blurred representations of reality and generally fail to reproduce sharp interfaces. Such models may cause significant bias when taken as a basis for predictive flow and transport modeling and are unsuitable for uncertainty assessment. We present a methodology in which tomograms are used to condition multiple-point statistics (MPS) simulations. A large set of geologically reasonable facies realizations and their corresponding synthetically calculated cross-hole radar tomograms are used as a training image. The training image is scanned with a direct sampling algorithm for patterns in the conditioning tomogram, while accounting for the spatially varying resolution of the tomograms. In a post-processing step, only those conditional simulations that predicted the radar traveltimes within the expected data error levels are accepted. The methodology is demonstrated on a two-facies example featuring channels and an aquifer analog of alluvial sedimentary structures with five facies. For both cases, MPS simulations exhibit the sharp interfaces and the geological patterns found in the training image. Compared to unconditioned MPS simulations, the uncertainty in transport predictions is markedly decreased for simulations conditioned to tomograms. As an improvement to other approaches relying on classical smoothness-constrained geophysical tomography, the proposed method allows for: (1) reproduction of sharp interfaces, (2) incorporation of realistic geological constraints and (3) generation of multiple realizations that enables uncertainty assessment.
Identifiants
https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/23426
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10.1007/s11004-013-9484-z
Type de publication
journal article
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