Prediction of shear wave velocity from petrophysical data utilizing intelligent systems: An example from a sandstone reservoir of Carnarvon Basin, Australia

Abstract

Shear wave velocity associated with compressional wave velocity can provide the accurate data for geophysical study of a reservoir. These so called petroacoustic studies have important role in reservoir characterization such as lithology determination, identifying pore fluid type, and geophysical interpretation. In this study, a fuzzy logic, a neuro-fuzzy and an artificial neural network approaches were used as intelligent tools to predict shear wave velocity from petrophysical data. The petrophysical data of two wells were used for constructing intelligent models in a sandstone reservoir of Carnarvon Basin, NW Shelf of Australia. A third well of the field was used to evaluate the reliability of the models. The results show that intelligent models have been successful for prediction of shear wave velocity from conventional well log data.