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GEOPHYSICS
卷 73, 期 6, 页码 WA173-WA180出版社
SOC EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS
DOI: 10.1190/1.2991120
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geophysical techniques; groundwater; hydrocarbon reservoirs
Between March 2003 and March 2007, four high-precision 4D absolute microgravity surveys were performed at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. These surveys are part of an ongoing effort to monitor the progress of a very large water-injection project in the gas cap of the Prudhoe Bay reservoir at a depth of 2.5 km. These carefully acquired gravity data must be modeled and interpreted in terms of water movement within the reservoir. A constrained linear inversion scheme was tested on reservoir simulations during the planning and development phase of this project (preinjection). The inver-sion methodology has been applied to data for three epochs (2005-2003, 2006-2003, and 2007-2003), and mass-distribution models have been produced for the reservoir. The time evolution of the water-mass distribution in the reservoir is visualized from these three snapshot models. The waterflood is expanding into the gas cap at the expected rate but is exhibiting nonsymmetric behavior that is consistent with a greater degree of structural control than expected. The waterflood seems to be restrained episodically and guided by fault barriers. These barriers are overcome and fault-bounded blocks filled with water in stages.
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