Patent Document ID: 9542508
Application ID: 13882423
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for characterizing a property of a subterranean porous rock formation filled with a fluid, the method comprising: collecting well log and seismic data for the subterranean porous rock formation; using the well log and seismic data to determine initial petrophysical parameters and layers for the subterranean porous rock formation; upscaling the initial petrophysical parameters for the layers within the subterranean porous rock formation; running a flow simulation using the upscaled petrophysical parameters and the layers to generate saturation, pressure and temperature values for the fluid within the subterranean porous rock formation; determining effective velocities for the subterranean porous rock formation filled with the fluid from the saturation, pressure and temperature values for the fluid generated by the flow simulation; and updating a seismic model for the subterranean porous rock formation using the effective velocities.