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The Trion field in the western Gulf of Mexico (GoM) exhibits folded sediment beddings and strong attenuation bodies, which pose great challenges for seismic imaging. After a decade of processing effort employing the latest imaging technology, the available towed-streamer data for this area hit ...

Targeting of stratigraphic traps is rapidly becoming a successful exploration strategy, especially in relatively mature basins where a high proportion of structural traps have been tested. The development of robust geological and trap models, integrated with the results of seismic inversion, are key steps ...

An incorrect anisotropy in the Full Wave Inversion (FWI) velocity model leads to imperfect Common Image Gather (CIG) flatness. The main difficulty in the anisotropy estimation through FWI is the strong coupling with velocity. While FWI jointly updating velocity and anisotropy has been proposed ...

Seismic imaging is particularly challenging in the Middle East. The shallow geology is often characterized by strong velocity contrasts from layered sands and carbonates that create multiples and mode conversions. Capturing these velocity variations is essential for accurate imaging. While re-cent developments in full-waveform ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There have been many advances in natural language processing in recent years but most of the work have been focused on texts from a general domain or medicine and so datasets in the geology domain are sadly lacking. We demonstrate how existing taxonomy and ...