Achievements and challenges in petroleum geostatistics

摘要

The current use of geostatistics in the petroleum industry is reviewed and the main issues that meed to be tackled before the potential of geostatistics is fully realized are highlighted. The paper rviews and discusses three main topics: (1) geostatistics and gelolgy; (2)multidisciplinary data integration; and (3) uncertainty quantification with multiple realizations. Our main message is that geostatistics has come a long way and reached maturity. In the years ahead, geostatisticians should focus less on the development of mew work flows for decision support with geostatistics as the core.