Patent ID: 6804609
Filing Date: 2004-10-12
Classification: G01V

Abstract:
A method of predicting a reservoir property at an unexplored subterranean location based on a seismic attribute pool generated from a seismic survey and known reservoir properties at explored subterranean locations, said seismic attribute pool including a plurality of common seismic attributes for each explored and unexplored location, said method comprising the steps of:(a) performing a first regression of the known reservoir properties and a first one of the common seismic attributes at the explored locations, said regression yielding a first prediction equation for calculating a first predicted reservoir property; (b) calculating first residuals for the known reservoir properties and corresponding first predicted reservoir properties generated with the first prediction equation; (c) correlating the first residuals with the common seismic attributes not used in the regression of step (a); and (d) selecting the common seismic attribute with the highest correlation from step (c) as a second one of the common seismic attributes.