Impacts of Variable Interdependencies on Play Petroleum Resource Assessment and Regional Resource Aggregation, Examples from Beaufort and Mackenzie Basin, Canada
Correlations are commonly observed among the geological variables used in petroleum resource assessment, but the degree of correlation may vary from play to play, reflecting the interplay of the geological processes governing hydrocarbon occurrence in a basin. Petroleum resource assessment using a probabilistic volumetric method involves the problem of variable interdependences at different levels, from volumetric calculation of a prospect potential to resource integration at a basin scale. Ignoring the interdependencies may lead to a biased resource estimation and result in an under-estimation of the uncertainty range. In this paper, we discuss a variety of variable interdependencies commonly involved in a petroleum resource assessment of a basin through examples from the Beaufort and Mackenzie Basin (BMB) in Arctic Canada.
Zhuoheng Chen Kirk G. Osadetz James Dixon Giles Morrell James Dietrich
Geological Survey of Canada, 3303 - 33rd street, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2L 2A7 Oil and Gas Management Directorate, Northern Oil and Gas Branch, India and Northern Affairs Canada
国际会议
The 12th Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geology(第12届国际数学地质大会)
北京
英文
615-619
2007-08-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）