Data-driven Full-waveform Inversion Surrogate using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

04/30/2021
by   Saraiva Marcus, et al.
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In the Oil and Gas industry, estimating a subsurface velocity field is an essential step in seismic processing, reservoir characterization, and hydrocarbon volume calculation. Full-waveform inversion (FWI) velocity modeling is an iterative advanced technique that provides an accurate and detailed velocity field model, although at a very high computational cost due to the physics-based numerical simulations required at each FWI iteration. In this study, we propose a method of generating velocity field models, as detailed as those obtained through FWI, using a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) with multiple inputs. The primary motivation of this approach is to circumvent the extremely high cost of full-waveform inversion velocity modeling. Real-world data were used to train and test the proposed network architecture, and three evaluation metrics (percent error, structural similarity index measure, and visual analysis) were adopted as quality criteria. Based on these metrics, the results evaluated upon the test set suggest that the GAN was able to accurately match real FWI generated outputs, enabling it to extract from input data the main geological structures and lateral velocity variations. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method, when deployed, has the potential to increase the speed of geophysical reservoir characterization processes, saving on time and computational resources.

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