Reconstruction of geological surfaces using chance-constrained programming*
Yu Shi-Cheng, Lu Cai, and Hu Guang-Min
1. School of Communication & Information Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chengdu 611731, China.
2. The Engineering & Technical College of Chengdu University of Technology, Leshan 614007, China.
3. Center for Information Geoscience, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China.
Abstract Geological surface modeling is typically based on seismic data, well data, and models of regional geology. However, structural interpretation of these data is error-prone, especially in the absence of structural morphology information, Existing geological surface models suffer from high levels of uncertainty, which exposes oil and gas exploration and development to additional risk. In this paper, we achieve a reconstruction of the uncertainties associated with a geological surface using chance-constrained programming based on multisource data. We also quantified the uncertainty of the modeling data and added a disturbance term to the objective function. Finally, we verified the applicability of the method using both synthetic and real fault data. We found that the reconstructed geological models met geological rules and reduced the reconstruction uncertainty.
This work was supported by National Science and Technology Major Project(Grant No. 2017ZX05018004004) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U1562218 & 41604107).
Corresponding Authors: Hu Guang-Min (E-mail: hgm@uestc.edu.cn)
E-mail: hgm@uestc.edu.cn
About author: Yu Shi-Cheng received his B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics form Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China (2004) and his M. S. from the College of Information Science & Technology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China (2009). He is a lecturer at the Engineering & Technical College of Chengdu University of Technology since 2010. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. His research interest are structural modeling.
Cite this article:
. Reconstruction of geological surfaces using chance-constrained programming*[J]. APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, 2019, 16(1): 133-144.
2019, Vol. 16 
