Practical Guide to Seismic Reservoir Characterization

Timothy Tylor-Jones is a professional geophysicist with more than 20 years of experience in the energy industry. He has a B.Eng. in Geology from Camborne School of Mines (Exeter University) and a M.Sc. in Petroleum Systems from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is also a chartered geologist with the Geological Society of London and a certified petroleum geologist with the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Tim’s early career was spent at Rock Solid Images as a geophysicist involved in processing and inversion of controlled source electromagnetics. Subsequently, he moved to Fugro Jason and then Baker RDS as a specialist geophysicist in seismic inversion, seismic processing, AVO, and reservoir characterization. Tim joined Maersk Oil in 2012 working both exploration and operated assets in the North Sea, which was followed by positions at DownUnder GeoSolutions as a lead QI geophysicist and then a global QI technical manager. He currently works at bp as a senior geophysicist in global exploration and development projects for natural gas.”Leonardo Azevedo is an assistant professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. He received his Ph.D. in Georesources in 2013 in the same university where he developed geostatistical tools for inverting seismic reflection data. He teaches and does research in topics related to geophysical inversion, subsurface modeling and characterization, and spatial data science. His work has been published in several international peer-reviewed journals and is a co-author of the book ‘Geostatistical methods for reservoir geophysics’.

• List of acronyms.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 The seismic method.- Chapter 3 Seismic acquisition essentials.- Chapter 4 Seismic pre-conditioning.- Chapter 5 Seismic well ties and wavelets.- Chapter 6 Interpreting seismic amplitudes.- Chapter 7 Predicting subsurface properties from seismic data.- Chapter 8 Rock properties prediction.- Chapter 9 The way forward.- References.