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It is well known that imaging of complex regions can be significantly improved with increased illumination in terms of offset and azimuth sampling. In this case study we illustrate how an existing large scale acquisition can be enriched by acquiring a second complementary survey ...

Conventional Full Waveform Inversion (FWI), mostly based on diving-waves, has become a standard velocity model building tool. Using a dataset from the deep water on the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), we show that FWI can be effective at resolving different ...

This paper presents leanings from the 2015 and 2016 North Sea acquisition season with regards to acquiring data with lots of seismic interference noise.

Kaskida is a large three-way reservoir underneath a complex salt body and truncated by a salt weld. Seismic imaging at the reservoir level is impacted by the inhomogeneous illumination from the complex overburden, which distorts the amplitude of reservoir reflectors and generates lots of ...

A broadband Wide-Azimuth Towed-Streamer (WATS) survey was acquired in a shallow water region of offshore China for the purpose of resolving strike direction narrow-azimuth acquisition shortcomings. However, the current WATS acquisition is much sparser than WATS surveys in deep water environments. The challenges of ...

This paper describes a successful reservoir characterization workflow where geostatistical inversion was first carried out to characterize caves and vugs, and then azimuthal inversion was used to obtain fractures strike and density. It improves the precision of reservoir prediction, and effectively characterizes the distribution ...

We present a method to estimate and correct the phase of broadband seismic data in the low-frequency range using the tomography velocity model as an analogy for subsurface geology. The high-resolution velocity model is obtained from travel-time tomography and therefore has minimal influence from ...

In recent years there has been tremendous progress in the resolution and accuracy that can be obtained in seismic images. Several techniques are now available to achieve a high-definition final image. In the Cap-Boujdour dataset from offshore Morocco, the imaging is challenging due to ...

In offshore prospective areas, oil slicks at the sea surface are often seen as being the visible expression of a working petroleum system at depth. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has proven to be an effective tool for identifying these oil slicks by virtue of ...