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The paper presents a review of classic rock physics models used for clastic sedimentary rocks and how they have been combined into extended models through the introduction of a few parameters associated with a compositional or textural property of the rock. The models are ...

In recent years, there have been many rapid developments in subsurface imaging, meaning that even data sets that are only two or three years old can benefit from reprocessing. Reprocessing older data, either on its own or in combination with new data, is both ...

The world-class oil and gas fields of the Gippsland Basin, with original recoverable reserves of more than four billion barrels of oil and around ten trillion cubic feet of gas, were discovered following a 1962 2D seismic survey. Despite considerable exploration, it has long ...

Full-waveform inversion (FWI), proposed by Lailly and Tarantola in the 1980s, is considered the most promising data-driven tool to automatically build velocity models. Many successful examples have been reported using FWI to update shallow sediments, gas pockets, and mud volcanoes. However, successful applications of ...

Machine learning is rapidly becoming a standard technology within the oil and gas industry. This is especially true in petrophysics, where Big Data tend to need more efficient and faster data analysis. The term “machine learning” was coined in 1959 by Arthur Samuel and ...

In this paper we demonstrate the ability of acoustic land FWI to recover a high-resolution velocity model using reflected waves in addition to diving waves and inverting up to 13 Hz.

Well-tie analysis is a starting point for mapping facies and geology observed at well locations onto seismic cubes. This step is very important for any application that uses seismic and well data together, and can secure more accurate results by increasing consistency between seismic ...

Below is a case study of the ongoing work on the Monarb and Seagull reprocessing projects in the Central North Sea, with a focus on the use of legacy near field hydrophone recordings, 3D recursive MWD, wave equation deconvolution and AVO QC (In particular ...

The desire to extend all the benefits of broadband 3D data to 4D time-lapse surveys has been hampered by the requirement for repeatability between successive surveys. The use of deep-towed multi-sensor streamers in time-lapse acquisition creates challenges, as the existing baseline surveys will often ...