History matching time-lapse seismic data using the ensemble Kalman filter with multiple data assimilations |
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| Authors: | Alexandre A Emerick Albert C Reynolds |
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| Institution: | 1.University of Tulsa,Tulsa,USA |
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| Abstract: | The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) has become a popular method for history matching production and seismic data in petroleum
reservoir models. However, it is known that EnKF may fail to give acceptable data matches especially for highly nonlinear
problems. In this paper, we introduce a procedure to improve EnKF data matches based on assimilating the same data multiple
times with the covariance matrix of the measurement errors multiplied by the number of data assimilations. We prove the equivalence
between single and multiple data assimilations for the linear-Gaussian case and present computational evidence that multiple
data assimilations can improve EnKF estimates for the nonlinear case. The proposed procedure was tested by assimilating time-lapse
seismic data in two synthetic reservoir problems, and the results show significant improvements compared to the standard EnKF.
In addition, we review the inversion schemes used in the EnKF analysis and present a rescaling procedure to avoid loss of
information during the truncation of small singular values. |
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