While most marine baseline surveys do not use broadband techniques, increasingly more monitor surveys are being adapted to broadband techniques that often use different receiver-depth profiles (e.g., deeper or variable-depth). A regular matching filter that has been commonly used in 4D time-lapse processing may ...
In the oil rich Bohai area, Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC) acquisition has become the new trend with the benefit of operational flexibility, better illumination, better multiple elimination and better S/N for the targets at middle to deep depth. However, the presence of azimuthal anisotropy ...
Thrust complex imaging in the Timor Trough suffers from the fault shadows due to strong lateral velocity variation. We demonstrate a new workflow to tackle this. Broadband seismic data were acquired with high signal-to-noise ratio of low frequency. With broadband input, full waveform inversion ...
Receiver deghosting algorithms assuming a flat sea surface may be sub-optimal in the case of significant sea surface datum variations. We propose a method that begins by using the seismic data to calculate a sea surface profile. The sea surface profile is then provided ...
We introduce an inversion-driven free surface multiple modelling scheme based on multi-order Green’s functions. The approach optionally combines surface related multiple modelling with source designature and receiver deghosting. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach for peg-leg multiple suppression as well as highlighting the ...
Ghost wavefield elimination is pivotal for improving the bandwidth and image resolution for marine seismic data. Synhronized multi-level source arrays, which aim to synchronize the primary wavefield and desynchronize the source ghost, can greatly attenuate the source ghost wavefield during acquistion. However, even with ...
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 ...
Time-lapse seismic surveys are intended to measure changes in the subsurface related to reservoir production. Accurately estimation of the reservoir-level requires prior corrections to layers above the reservoir, including the water layer. Water layer changes can be attributed to ocean tides and water velocity ...
Subsalt imaging is challenging at the Thunder Horse field in the Gulf of Mexico primarily because of the salt canopy overlying roughly 75% of the structure. Since the Thunder Horse discovery, advancements in seismic acquisition techniques and imaging technologies have helped improve subsalt imaging ...