Technical Content

Recently, a lot of efforts has been done in seismology and geophysics to track and monitor sub-surface property variations such as velocity, fluid pressure or saturation. In 4D monitoring, the two main observables are velocity and amplitude variations. For a given reflection, variations are ...

High-quality and well-positioned seismic data are key requirements of the decision-making process to recover the remaining and bypassed hydrocarbons in mature areas. A great deal of seismic exploration has taken place within the Central North Sea, using a variety of acquisition configurations including the ...

Extended seismic bandwidths provided by broadband acquisitions (BroadSeis), improved illumination from wide-azimuth (WAZ) configurations and high spatial resolution made possible by dense acquisition techniques are all new technologies producing visually compelling imaging and reservoir results. In addition, application of the latest reservoir characterization tools ...

In seismic land acquisition, harmonic–noise in vibrator ground-force has always been a major limitation in terms of data quality and productivity. In high productivity acquisition, vibrator distortion is usually prevented by waiting enough time between successive shots. Otherwise, it has to be reduced during ...

We present an efficient convex optimization strategy enabling the simultaneous attenuation of random and erratic noise with interpolation in pre-stack seismic data. For a particular analysis window, frequency slice spatial data can be reorganized into a block Toeplitz matrix with Toeplitz blocks in the ...

Combined with recent receiver deghosting strategies, the use of multi-level sources can provide further uplift to the ever broadening bandwidth of seismic data. While multi-level sources help mitigate source notches in the output spectrum, the resulting emitted wavelet still exhibits residual ghosts, directivity, and ...

This article focuses on an area of the Ivorian part of the Tano Basin where no drilling has yet taken place. It describes the interpretation of a new multi-client BroadSeis™ 3D seismic survey covering this unexplored area, which has provided the basis for a ...

Building on our earlier Big Data paper at OTC in May 2015, this article in JPT October 2015 continues our push to demonstrate the use of Big Data in an Oil & Gas context. Well data from the UKCS were analysed to identify "bad ...

An integrated, multi-disciplinary approach of correlating core facies to petrophysical wireline facies to seismic facies for tight unconventional sandstones is presented along with the results of a simultaneous, geostatistical seismic inversion. This integrated approach results in an improved understanding of the spatial distribution, geometry ...