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Correcting Fault Shadows – a Case Study Comparison of Fault-Constrained Tomography and Time-Lag Full-Waveform Inversion
Correcting Fault Shadows – a Case Study Comparison of Fault-Constrained Tomography and Time-Lag Full-Waveform Inversion
Solving fault shadow imaging problems has been a long-existing topic when heavy faults are present and the seismic imaging underneath is distorted. With full-waveform inversion (FWI), they are usually less of a concern when their depths are within diving wave penetration. However, beyond diving ...
Recent advances in full-waveform inversion (FWI) algorithms have allowed it to work stably and effectively in different geological settings, especially in areas with geobodies of large impedance contrasts such as salt, despite its presently taken acoustic assumption. This has resulted in a leap in ...
Unlocking the potential of WAZ data for subsalt imaging using FWI: A case study in the Perdido area
Unlocking the potential of WAZ data for subsalt imaging using FWI: A case study in the Perdido area
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) has become the norm in velocity model building for different surveys from land to marine, and from streamers to ocean bottom nodes. FWI using wide-azimuth (WAZ) streamer data in areas with complex geologic settings can fall short of resolving the complexity ...
Assessing FWI Imaging’s potential to tackle illumination issues and internal multiples in the Brazilian pre-salt
Assessing FWI Imaging’s potential to tackle illumination issues and internal multiples in the Brazilian pre-salt
Most seismic surveys carried out in offshore Brazil consist of narrow-azimuth towed-streamer (NATS) acquisitions. In areas such as the South Atlantic offshore basins, the geological complexity results in illumination issues for NATS acquisitions, especially in the deep pre-salt section. Both Full-Waveform Inversion Imaging (FWI ...
Revisiting the Brazilian Equatorial Margin with FWI and its impact on interpretation in an exploratory frontier
Revisiting the Brazilian Equatorial Margin with FWI and its impact on interpretation in an exploratory frontier
Recent technology advancements have enabled us to revisit the Foz do Amazonas (2014) and Barreirinhas (2016) narrow-azimuth towed-streamer (NATS) seismic surveys and tackle specific imaging challenges in a way that the legacy processing could not. In an exploratory frontier such as the Brazilian Equatorial ...
FWI for the complex Walker Ridge salt province using streamer data
FWI for the complex Walker Ridge salt province using streamer data
Monument field is located in the northwest part of Walker Ridge in the Gulf of Mexico, with a Paleogene sandstone reservoir ?9 km below sea surface. The complicated overburden of low reflectivity shale bodies and complex salt geometries with steep salt flanks, multi-level weld ...
Land surface-related multiple attenuation based on wave-equation deconvolution
Land surface-related multiple attenuation based on wave-equation deconvolution
Free-surface multiple prediction of land data is challenging due to the unknown downward reflecting free-surface combined with poorly sampled recording of the shallow multiple generators. We use a wave-equation deconvolution approach to derive an image of the shallow multiple generators using the multiple periodicity ...
High-resolution seismic imaging of shallow karstified carbonate overburden offshore Indonesia
High-resolution seismic imaging of shallow karstified carbonate overburden offshore Indonesia
Heavily faulted and karstified carbonate overburden poses potential geohazards for well drilling in West Papua, offshore Indonesia. Hence, high-resolution seismic images that capture geological details, such as karstified faults and small-scale caves within the carbonate, are highly desirable. In this study, two aspects play ...