GS 708: Petroleum Geostatistics
Syllabus​
Introduction to applications of geostatistics in petroleum geoscience; Introduction to basic statistics: random variables, univariate and joint probability distributions, expectation, variance, covariance, conditional distribution. Introduction to random functions, stationarity, second-order stationarity, quasi-stationarity, intrinsic random functions, non-stationary random functions coregionalization; covariance and variogram, properties and modeling, concepts of regularization and change of support; estimation: ordinary and simple kriging, cokriging; transfer functions: indicator kriging. Simulation of random functions: non-conditional and conditional simulation, sequential simulation, LU-based simulation, simulated annealing, co-simulation; truncated Gaussian and indicator simulation; introduction to object-based simulation. Application of simulation techniques in petroleum geology: simulation of facies, simulation of reservoir characteristics.
Texts/References
- Chiles, J.P. and Delfiner, P. Geostatistics: Modeling Spatial Uncertainity, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999
- Deutsch, C.V. Geostatistical Reservoir Modelling, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2002
- Duruble, O. Geostatistics in Petroleum Geology, AAPG Cont. Education Course Note Series # 38, 1998
- Goovaerts, P. Geostatistics for Natural Resources Modelling, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 1997
- Isaaks, E.A. and Srivastava, R.M. An Introduction to Geostatistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990
- Journel, A.G. and Huijbregts, C. Mining Geostatistics, Academic Press, London, 1978
- Mallet, J.L. Geomodelling, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2002
- Yarus, J.M. and Chambers, R.L. (Ed). Stochastic Modelling and Geostatistics, Principles, Methods and Case Studies, AAPG Computer Applications in Geology, No 3, 1994