摘要
Cooperative inversion for petroleum reservoir characterization produces an Earth model that fits all available geological, geophysical and reservoir production data to within acceptable error criteria. The mathematical formulation for the inversion requires an appropriate modeling description of both seismic wave propagation and reservoir fluid flow. The inversion requires the minimization of an objective function which is the weighted sum of model misfits for both geophysical and production data. While the complete automation of cooperative inversion may be unrealistic or intractable, geophysical data can provide useful information for enhancing heavy oil production. A methodology is given to demonstrate possible cooperative inversion application in heavy oil reservoirs.
