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Inverse & Risk Methods in Hydrocarbon Exploration A Compendium
Multi-Science Publishing, Feb 2005, Pages: 502
This book looks at how modern developments have enhanced the utility of basin analysis in hydrocarbon exploration. A major factor is modern computing power, which enables complex Monte Carlo-type calculations to be rapidly carried out; a second is the transfer of concepts from the economic arena to the theatre of hydrocarbon production, for example setting risking procedures to cope with data uncertainties. In addition now there are available powerful methods for handling the determination of parameters in the highly non-linear world of equations describing various facets of basin analysis. These methods include genetic algorithms, simulated annealing methods and the so-called 'fast path' method. All these novel procedures and methods are brought together in this volume so that students, as well as professionals, can see what the recent developments in basin analysis have amounted to, and so invoke the procedures as a solid stable platform to build on.
About the Author
Professor Ian Lerche is currently Deutscher Acadmischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Visiting Professor of Geology at the University of Leipzig, on leave from the University of South Carolina. Previously, he was with Gulf Oil from 1979 to 1984 and the University of Chicago from 1965 to 1979. He has published 18 books on a variety of geological subjects and more than 720 papers. The recipient of several awards, Professor Lerche currently serves on several editorial boards, is technical editor of one journal and European editor of another. His main research interests are risk and hazard analysis, environmental problems, basin analysis, astrophysics, petroleum production economics, salt dynamics and hydrodynamic flow of oil and gas. Professor Lerche was educated at the University of Manchester, England, where he received his BSc in Physics in 1962 and his PhD in 1965.
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