Technical Content

This paper highlights recent progress and breakthroughs in land FWI with two examples from the Sultanate of Oman (one from the north and one from the south).

Brazilian pre-salt often exhibits geologically complex settings with many challenges for oil and gas exploration and production. One of these key challenges is the presence of igneous rocks. We analyze the ability of full-waveform inversion (FWI) to identify and detect this class of rock ...

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 ...

Chris Page, EVP New Businesses Development, Viridien, explains how technologies used to support oil and gas exploration and development are enabling innovations in the energy transition and beyond.

We demonstrate how the use of multiples in imaging may provide improved shallow illumination and potentially reduce the requirement for extensive site-survey acquisition in some areas.

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 ...