Technical Content

This paper reviews the benefits of using “high-end new-generation” de-noising tools on a broadband single-source single-sensor Wide Azimuth survey acquired in Kuwait. A processing pilot has been conducted in a very challenging area containing agricultural and industrial zones, as well as various natural and ...

Internal multiples constitute a major challenge for imaging. Artefacts generated by incorrectly imaging internal multiples interfere with targets, affecting the interpretation and contaminating amplitude analyses in the reservoir. The Santos basin is a particularly challenging example of this problem because of the presence of ...

While full wave based velocity model building approaches have earned their stripes during the last decade, ray based approaches remain the working horse in industry. I review here first the successes and the limitations of both families of approaches. If it appears that ray ...

This paper highlights compelling imaging improvements achieved through modern high-end reprocessing in Gippsland Basin. The area of study, largely represented by the Bass Canyon, has strong exploration potential but is high risk. The major challenges in this region are related to geologic complexity and ...

We show how to separate the seismic image into specular reflections and diffractions using dip-angle gathers. A North Sea example and a 4D example are used to show the efficacy of the algorithm. The 4D example shows a significant reduction in imaging noise.

While the benefits of vertical particle velocity measurements are well known for towed streamer receiver deghosting, in many cases high noise levels can cause practical issues. We describe an inversion-driven receiver deghosting approach which is jointly constrained by hydrophone data and prior wavefield separated ...

A Rayleigh surface wave tomography with optimal coverage approach based on the creation of virtual raypaths by interferometry is proposed. The array based conventional surface wave picking methods often provides inhomogeneous or sparse coverage for high-resolution tomography. The delivered inversion result can suffer from ...

We introduce a method for separating residual statics and NMO velocities by maximising sparsity in tau-v and tau-p domains. Surface Consistent statics are computed without a-priori knowledge about velocities needed for NMO corrections. In such way static time shifts will not be applied to ...

We present the application to a 3D real dataset of full waveform inversion (FWI) with optimal transport (OT) using the Kantorovich-Rubinstein (KR) distance as proposed by Métivier et al. (2016). This approach involves an efficient numerical implementation for OT in time and space directions ...