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EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers | Nicolas Salaun, Matthieu Pouget, Ziqin Yu, Claire Beigbeder, Anna Rivet, Segolene Dega, Manuel Peiro (CGG) ; Abderrahim Lafram, Andrea Grandi (Total E&P) ; Emerson Jungo (Total E&P Angola) ©2021 EAGE | May

Time-lapse seismic is now being used more frequently to assist reservoir development, prevent infrastructure damage or monitor geological storage. To better reveal true 4D signals while suppressing acquisition-related noise as a result of, for example, water velocity changes, source positioning errors etc., a new ...

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EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers | Gillian Royle, Olivier Leblanc, Ghislain Viguier, Gilles Lambare, Anna Sedova, Svetlana Shutova, Diego Carotti ©2020 EAGE | May

Successful applications of full waveform inversion (FWI) to land datasets are far less numerous than marine applications, yet the development of dense, long-offset broadband acquisitions has presented promising opportunities. While challenges exist due to elastic effects, acoustic land FWI has been shown to provide ...

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EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers | Ramez Refaat, Krzysztof Ubik, James Sinden, Julian Holden ©2021 EAGE | May

Spanning decades of exploration and production in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf, many programs of towed streamer data have shaped our knowledge of the Central North Sea. However, the fundamental lack of illumination and azimuth/offset coverage provided by towed streamer geometries, remains a blocker ...

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EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers | Paul Fallon, Fiona Hall, Andy Holman, Gioia Cattini, Steve Hollingworth ©2020 EAGE | May

Full waveform inversion (FWI) using diving waves has in recent years become a standard model-building tool in the Central North Sea (CNS). Below the maximum depth of diving wave penetration however, we have remained reliant on ray based tomographic methods, which although powerful, have ...

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EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers | Nicolas Salaun, Mathieu Reinier, Isabel Espin, Guillaume Gigou ©2021 EAGE | May

The Greater Castberg survey was acquired in 2019 using a source-over-spread acquisition design with an additional source at the front of the streamers, towed by the receiver boat, to permit recording of longer offsets. Starting from an initial anisotropic model, time-lag full waveform inversion ...

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EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers | Paolo Gabrielli, Simon Drummie, Ewa Kaszycka, Steve Thompson, Yuxuan Zhan, Rory Hover, Sridhar Mannem, Monika Ubik, Nicolas Morandini, Peeyush Upadhyay, Benjamin Bosbach (CGG) ; M Shah B Sulaiman, Christopher Lee Slind (Petronas) ©2020 EAGE | May

Offshore Gabon has several challenges for seismic exploration. The major difficulty is obtaining a detailed and accurate velocity model. Complicated salt structures with overhangs, variability within the salt and carbonate rafts with Karst features pose difficult challenges to conventional velocity model building. Moreover, these ...

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EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers | Harrison Moore, Simon Drummie, Ewa Kaszycka, Gordon Poole, Krzysztof Cichy ©2020 EAGE | May

We discuss the processing and imaging challenges relating to a marine seismic survey acquired northwest of the Shetland Islands. The proximity of the survey to the islands forced the acquisition direction to be strike to the subsurface geology. A shooting vessel provided wide azimuth ...

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EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers | Henry Kerrison, Paul Fallon, Ewa Kaszycka, Krzysztof Cichy, Andrew Ratcliffe, Nabil Masmoudi ©2021 EAGE | May

The combination of ever-increasing computational power and more robust algorithms have made it possible to run full-waveform inversion (FWI) to higher frequencies and, also, offer more possibilities to take advantage of the reflections in the inversion. Through a process known as FWI Imaging, the ...

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EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers | Chi Chen, Huawei Gao, Xin Zhao, Zhao Wang, Jiawei Mei (CGG) ; Mark A. Benson (BP Houston) ; Bethan Turner (BP Egypt) ; Walter Rietveld (BP Exploration Ltd) ©2020 EAGE | May

The Messinian interval in the West Nile Delta, offshore Egypt, is a thin evaporite layer characterized by highly irregular velocities with rapid spatial variations. Its complexity poses unique challenges for sub-Messinian reservoir imaging, resulting in erratic gather curvatures, distorted structures, and nonuniform illumination. Conventional ...