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In principle, high quality pre-stack converted wave (PS) data can provide valuable complementary information to PP data to highlight seismic amplitude anomalies in areas with complex imaging problems such as steeply dipping structures and obscured areas. However, in practice, we often find that PS ...

FWI velocity models do not necessarily ensure an optimal flattening of common image gathers (CIG). A fundamental reason for this is that mid to high wavenumbers are brought into the model by the reflection amplitudes, which are only partly explained by changes in velocity ...

Summary of the evolution based processing and imaging of the Montrose/Arbroath fields of the Central North Sea, with a focus on new demultiple technology in the form of wave equation deconvolution, Ghost Wavefield Elimination using legacy NFH recordings, joint reflection/refraction tomography followed by Q-FWI ...

Well planning is one of the most demanding aspects of drilling engineering for hydrocarbons. Hence, seismic exploration objectives often require the interpretation of the seismic image as early as possible to facilitate well planning. This task becomes challenging when one needs to employ advanced ...

The interpretation of fault surfaces is key to understanding the subsurface geology represented in 3D seismic volumes. The geologic structure represented by seismic reflections can be auto-tracked in the volume. Faults, however, are imaged as discontinuities or changes in curvature in the seismic data ...

Integrated exploration, new workflows for new challenges highlighting JumpStart Gabon, Marine Source Predictions and Encontrado reprocessing projects.

The paper presents a review of classic rock physics models used for clastic sedimentary rocks and how they have been combined into extended models through the introduction of a few parameters associated with a compositional or textural property of the rock. The models are ...

In recent years, there have been many rapid developments in subsurface imaging, meaning that even data sets that are only two or three years old can benefit from reprocessing. Reprocessing older data, either on its own or in combination with new data, is both ...

The world-class oil and gas fields of the Gippsland Basin, with original recoverable reserves of more than four billion barrels of oil and around ten trillion cubic feet of gas, were discovered following a 1962 2D seismic survey. Despite considerable exploration, it has long ...