ABSTRACT
Batumerah area is located in the Aru Basin, offshore South Papua. One well hasalready been drilled in this area and gave inconclusive gas discovery. The wellindicates that there may have good potential reservoir zone, but no definiteinformation was gathered from the well to confirm the statement. Acomprehensive evaluation like reservoir characterization study by integrating welldata, seismic data and geological interpretation is required to resolve thisuncertainty and predict the hydrocarbon potential of the Batumerah area. Due tolimited well data, the most applicable reservoir characterization study inBatumerah Area is Seismic Simultaneous Inversion. Simultaneous inversion is arelatively new and extremely powerful form of inversion. The detailed techniqueessentially takes several seismic angle stacks and inverts them simultaneously.The result is two primary volumes of absolute rock properties tightly calibrated tothe well log data: P-Impedance and S-Impedance. Additional outputs include:Vp/Vs, porosity and Lambda Rho volumes. Having these extra datasets take theexplorationist into a new world of possibilities. The application of a simultaneousinversion algorithm to the seismic angle stacks in Batumerah area hasdemonstrated the ability to minimize uncertainty and addressing some issuesregarding the lithology and reservoir properties due to data limitation.Even though most of well log data are derived from model and only one wellexists on the inversion area, nevertheless, the simultaneous inversion results thatare interpretative results provide best estimation and prediction for reservoircharacterization on the Batumerah area.