Technical Content

Recently, a lot of efforts has been done in seismology and geophysics to track and monitor sub-surface property variations such as velocity, fluid pressure or saturation. In 4D monitoring, the two main observables are velocity and amplitude variations. For a given reflection, variations are ...

High-quality and well-positioned seismic data are key requirements of the decision-making process to recover the remaining and bypassed hydrocarbons in mature areas. A great deal of seismic exploration has taken place within the Central North Sea, using a variety of acquisition configurations including the ...

Extended seismic bandwidths provided by broadband acquisitions (BroadSeis), improved illumination from wide-azimuth (WAZ) configurations and high spatial resolution made possible by dense acquisition techniques are all new technologies producing visually compelling imaging and reservoir results. In addition, application of the latest reservoir characterization tools ...

We present an efficient convex optimization strategy enabling the simultaneous attenuation of random and erratic noise with interpolation in pre-stack seismic data. For a particular analysis window, frequency slice spatial data can be reorganized into a block Toeplitz matrix with Toeplitz blocks in the ...

This article focuses on an area of the Ivorian part of the Tano Basin where no drilling has yet taken place. It describes the interpretation of a new multi-client BroadSeis™ 3D seismic survey covering this unexplored area, which has provided the basis for a ...

Building on our earlier Big Data paper at OTC in May 2015, this article in JPT October 2015 continues our push to demonstrate the use of Big Data in an Oil & Gas context. Well data from the UKCS were analysed to identify "bad ...

Article describes application of TomoML to our 35,000 km2 Cornerstone survey in the North Sea. Also make reference to broadband deghosting, dip-constrained channel tomography and dual azimuth.

Amplitude versus Offset and Azimuth (AVOAz) Analysis can be separated into two separate parts; Amplitude versus Offset (AVO) analysis and Amplitude versus Azimuth (AVAz) analysis. Useful information about fractures and the anisotropy is obtained by just examining the AVAz. The AVAz can be described ...

Marine seismic acquisitions record both primary and multiple wavefields. In a typical processing sequence, multiple energy is removed from the data before migration. However, there may be valuable information contained in the multiple wavefield. To discover this hidden information, reverse time migration of multiples ...