Technical Content

3500 km2 of marine data from West of Shetlands have been reprocessed using latest processing technologies available (including deghosting). This case study demonstrates the benefit to re-process conventionnal data (acquired in the 90's) to get a broadband result (better definition, larger spectrum).

We propose a laterally constrained surface wave inversion to obtain a reliable near-surface shear-wave velocity field from Rayleigh wave measurements. This workflow is targeted at dense 3D broadband Wide-Azimuth land surveys, aiming to obtain reliable and realistic lateral shear-wave velocity variations pertinent with regard ...

Standard reflection-based model building for land applications is challenging due to reduced data quality, near-surface heterogeneities, and the low-fold of reflection data at shallow depths. Broadband and large offset data acquisitions have been developed with the aim of investigating full waveform inversion (FWI) as ...

In this paper, we discuss the deblending result of a penta-source marine towed streamer data. The small dithering time renders the cross-talk noise to be semi-coherent in all domains, making this dataset challenging for existing deblending techniques. To tackle this data, we propose a ...

3D elastic modelling was performed to compare two acquisition designs . Blind full processing sequence was applied to ensure unbiased conclusions and final quality. Final quality on stack sections are similar in quality for both flat and highly structured sub-surface. some major advantages of ...

Difficulties in processing land seismic data often arise due to insufficient sampling of the wavefield. Fully unconstrained simultaneous shooting offers a way to substantially increase productivity and hence source densities, leading to improved sampling of the wavefield. In order to achieve this we must ...

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a method of velocity estimation which minimizes the misfit between recorded and modeled data, the parameters of the minimization being the velocity model. If the velocity model is smooth, then only the refracted waves are modeled and used, if ...

Time-lapse seismic processing in carbonate fields having complex geology and in difficult seismic contexts requires highly specialized teams for success. Our field case has a flat structure, a poorly-imaged but highly reflective sea bottom and is covered by towed-streamer data in about 60m of ...

The absorption effect caused by the anelastic nature of earth leads to attenuation of amplitudes and distortion of phases for seismic wave. The so-called Q factor has to be compensated for correct imaging. We propose least square Q-Kirchhoff migration (LSQPSDM) in which absorption is ...