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Full waveform inversion (FWI) is becoming an increasingly dominant force in velocity model building and seismic imaging, often providing us with unrivaled focusing and resolution of the subsurface image. The superior velocity models and seismic images achieved through FWI also enable serious and more ...

Land seismic data in the Sultanate of Oman presents more and different challenges for full-waveform inversion (FWI) compared to marine data. This is mainly due to complex near-surface effects that create strong ground roll, which obscures already poor data quality, especially at lower frequencies ...

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) has demonstrated tremendous potential to provide high-resolution subsurface models. However, obtaining an accurate FWI velocity model can still be challenging in steep continental slope shelf geologic environments. The uncertainties, often caused by shallow abrupt velocity contrasts, limited diving-wave penetration depth, and ...

Historically, Brazilian pre-salt fields have been imaged by narrow-azimuth towed-streamer (NATS) data. More recently, ocean bottom node (OBN) acquisitions have been employed to image and monitor already producing fields. In cases as such, 4D seismic monitoring is only possible via NATS/OBN hybrid pairs, where ...

Recent exploration activities within Paleocene and Eocene remobilized sands have proven the injectite play in the Northern Viking Graben (NVG). Wells targeting these sands have led to new discoveries such as Kveikje (2022) and Heisenberg (2023). This study proposes a robust methodology for detailed ...

Elastic full-waveform inversion (FWI) is now emerging as an industrial tool for the compressional velocity (Vp) model build, driven mainly by diving and reflected P waves. On the other hand, the inversion of S waves in elastic FWI to update shear velocity (Vs) models ...

In shallow water environments the presence of a hard water-bottom and near-surface geological complexities can give rise to strong guided-waves and other elastic effects in the recorded data. These effects can pose challenges for conventional full-waveform inversion (FWI) based on acoustic approximations, leading to ...

Geomechanical screening of potential CO2 storage sites in deep geological formations presents a substantial challenge, particularly in tectonically active regions like offshore Sarawak. In this study, we collect existing logs and downhole stress and pressure measurements to construct 1D mechanical earth models for three ...

This case study demonstrates the collaborative advantages when an Operator and a Geoscience Contractor work collectively as part of a tailor-made Integrated Virtual Asset team, to solve complex subsurface challenges in a restricted time frame. The operating challenge was to de-risk a potential drilling ...