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Least-squares depth migration approximates the inverse of the forward modeling. We show two real data applications of a single iteration (non-iterative) Kirchhoff least-squares depth migration process, generically referred to as migration deconvolution, to highlight the benefits of this process. Our first example demonstrates improved ...

The Campos Basin, offshore Brazil, features complex shallow geology in the forms of pronounced seabed canyons and paleo-canyons. The rapid variations in the velocity field due to these complex shallow geologic features can be difficult for ray-based tomography techniques to resolve, resulting in distorted ...

Seismic inversion transforms seismic reflection data into quantitative rock-property descriptions of a reservoir. Seismic data bandwidth is limited by signal-to-noise ratio, absorption, source wavelet, and shot and receiver ghosts. A typical deterministic seismic inversion workflow fills the low frequencies by extrapolating or interpolating existing ...

Least-squares migration (LSM) can potentially provide better amplitude fidelity, higher image resolution, and fewer migration artifacts than standard migration. Conventional LSM is often solved iteratively through linearized inversion, and therefore is often referred to as iterative LSM. In recent years, various single-iteration LSM approaches ...

Deblending shallow water OBC data can be challenging. High blending fold, strong early arrivals, shear wave energy, and background noise all add to the complexity of the problem. Using an offshore Trinidad OBC survey, including dual and triple sources, we demonstrate the effectiveness of ...

The oil-bearing fractured granite basement rocks form a very important and complicated hydrocarbon reservoir in Cuu Long basin offshore Vietnam. However, the poor fractured basement imaging in the conventional tow streamer data makes it hard for detailed interpretation and future well placement. To improve ...

DALLAS–The great land grab in the Midland Basin has resulted in an exponential increase in acreage prices, with buyers paying up to $60,000 an acre in some cases. In this competitive environment, oil and gas companies–particularly smaller independents–are starting to look for prospective areas ...

Reservoir characterization methods require seismic data processed for this purpose. We propose a QC methodology for AVO and low frequency. We use a small set of attributes with which we identify signal preservation and pre-stack data consistency across the full data bandwidth. The methodology ...

Reflection-based full waveform inversion (RFWI) is increasingly used to recover long wavelengths of the background velocity model and provide updates that extend beyond the reach of diving waves. In our case study, we use an RFWI method that first updates the density using the ...