Morphology generation of turbidite channel structures through object-based simulation conditional to multipoint statistics

The turbidite channel systems are important targets for the hydrocarbons industry, however their characterization is a challenging process due to the three-dimensional complexity. These systems are constituted by channel complexes which are sets of two or more channels with similar architecture. This work presents a methodology for simulating the morphology of these submarine channels. First, it proceeds to the simulation of the channel complex trajectory using multipoint statistics of the orientation angles of a training image. The multipoint statistics are stored in a dynamic structure named “search tree”. Second, turbidite channel thalwegs are simulated using the same multipoint method, but they are conditional to the channel complex path. The methodology is applied to a case study in the Lower Congo Basin.

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