Enhanced recovery of subsurface geological structures using compressed sensing and the Ensemble Kalman filter

Furrukh Sana, Klemens Katterbauer, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Ibrahim Hoteit

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Abstract

Recovering information on subsurface geological features, such as flow channels, holds significant importance for optimizing the productivity of oil reservoirs. The flow channels exhibit high permeability in contrast to low permeability rock formations in their surroundings, enabling formulation of a sparse field recovery problem. The Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is a widely used technique for the estimation of subsurface parameters, such as permeability. However, the EnKF often fails to recover and preserve the channel structures during the estimation process. Compressed Sensing (CS) has shown to significantly improve the reconstruction quality when dealing with such problems. We propose a new scheme based on CS principles to enhance the reconstruction of subsurface geological features by transforming the EnKF estimation process to a sparse domain representing diverse geological structures. Numerical experiments suggest that the proposed scheme provides an efficient mechanism to incorporate and preserve structural information in the estimation process and results in significant enhancement in the recovery of flow channel structures.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages3107-3110
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781479979295
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 12 2015

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