The main area of hydrocarbon exploration in the Northern North Sea has been within pre- and syn-rift Jurassic sandstones. This is with the exception of chalk reservoirs in the Ekofisk field and Palaeogene sand reservoirs of the Frigg field. Now, with ignited interest in ...
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Converted-wave beam migration with sparse sources or receivers
Converted-wave beam migration with sparse sources or receivers
Gaussian Beam depth migration (GBM) overcomes the single-wavefront limitation of the most implementations of Kirchhoff migration, and constitutes a cost-effective alternative to full-wavefield imaging methods such as reverse time migration. Common-offset beam migration was originally derived to exploit symmetries available in marine towed-streamer acquisition ...
New technology breathes new life into mature basins - a case study over the Utsira High
New technology breathes new life into mature basins - a case study over the Utsira High
We present a case study over the South Utsira High. This survey was the first commercial BroadSource with BroadSeis 3D survey, and was acquired over the Johan Sverdrup field. A small pilot survey was initially acquired over the Avaldsnes discovery and later extended to ...
Noise and Repeatability in Airborne Gravity Gradiometry
Noise and Repeatability in Airborne Gravity Gradiometry
We present the results from flying the FALCON-2 system over the R.J. Smith AGG test range at Kauring, West Australia.
We describe opportunities and challenges for imaging seismic data acquired using conventional marine sources and receivers located on the seafloor. Opportunities include the promise of greater imaging resolution than sea-surface acquisition and processing can offer, especially using P-wave to S-wave converted reflection energy (PS ...
An integrated approach to unconventional resource play reservoir characterization, Thistleton-1 case study, NW England
An integrated approach to unconventional resource play reservoir characterization, Thistleton-1 case study, NW England
In this paper, we present a UK case study and draw on lessons learnt from the American market by using mineralogical and textural data obtained by AM and measured TOC to constrain and improve the accuracy of petrophysical modelling. We characterize a UK unconventional ...
High-fidelity Adaptive Curvelet Domain Primary-Multiple Separation
High-fidelity Adaptive Curvelet Domain Primary-Multiple Separation
In this paper, we propose an adaptive implementation scheme for first separating multiples from primary events by a given multiple model in seismic data and subsequently removing the multiples from noisy seismic data using the curvelet transform. Due to the sparseness of seismic data ...
Broadband Data Starts to Unlock the Secrets to Finding Hydrocarbons in the Banda Arc
Broadband Data Starts to Unlock the Secrets to Finding Hydrocarbons in the Banda Arc
The Banda Arc is of great interest to petroleum explorers because of abundant onshore and offshore oil and gas seeps and similarities with geologically contiguous Mesozoic and Cenozoic successions in Australia where numerous petroleum systems exist and have been exploited (the Mesozoic basins are ...
A stable and practical implementation of least-squares reverse time migration
A stable and practical implementation of least-squares reverse time migration
By adapting reverse time migration (RTM) and demigration as the migration and modeling operators to maximize the crosscorrelation between the simulated and the acquired seismic data, we introduced a new practical least-squares RTM (LSRTM) scheme and derived a steepest descent method in seeking the ...