Meana Petro
SR-05FrontierWave 3AI

Generative Inter-Well Modeling

In one sentence

Fills the rock between wells with geologically plausible detail instead of a smooth interpolation that no outcrop ever looked like.

The problem

Conventional geostatistics produces models that honour the wells and are far too smooth everywhere else. Flow behaviour is controlled by the connectivity of that in-between rock, which the smooth model gets wrong.

How it works

A generative model trained on analogue outcrop and high-resolution field datasets produces multiple realisations conditioned on well data and seismic attributes. Realisations are screened for geological plausibility by a geologist before any of them reach a simulator.

Data required

  • Well data with facies and petrophysical curves
  • Seismic attributes or inversion volumes as soft conditioning
  • A depositional analogue set appropriate to the environment
  • Structural framework and zonation

What you get

  • Multiple conditioned property realisations
  • Connectivity metrics across the realisation set
  • RESQML-ready grids for flow simulation

What it cannot do

Plausible is not correct. The realisations are consistent with the data and the analogue, and nothing in the method makes them true. They are useful for spanning uncertainty and dangerous if a single realisation is promoted to "the model", which is the most common way this technique is misused in the industry.

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