Patent ID: 8923093
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: G01V

Abstract:
1. A method for evaluating a quality of a seismic inversion, comprising: (a) performing a first match between seismic data and borehole seismic data at one or more borehole locations to generate an estimate of a wavelet in the seismic data; (b) performing, using a microprocessor, the seismic inversion on the seismic data using the estimate of the wavelet to generate inverted seismic data; (c) converting the inverted seismic data into one or more reflectivity traces; (d) performing a second match between the one or more reflectivity traces and one or more traces in the seismic data; (e) performing a third match between the one or more reflectivity traces and one or more traces in the borehole seismic data that is used to generate the estimate of the wavelet; and (f) determining the quality of the seismic inversion based on the first match, the second match, the third match or combinations thereof.