The two sources of information commonly available for modeling the top of a structure, depth data from wells and geophysical measurements from seismic surveys, are often Miicult to integrate. W bile, the well data provide t he most accurate measurements of depths there are rarely enough wells to permit an accurate appraisal from well data alone. On the other hand, the seismic data are generally less precise but more abundant. Two geoatatistical methods, "external drift~and "collocated cokrigingfi, are proposed to integrate the two sources of information. A case study is used to document the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches for constructing contour maps cf the top structure and assessing the uncertainty on such maps through stochastic simulations.
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