In this paper a method is described to update the low frequencies of the elastic parameters coming from pre-stack time lapse inversion in a data driven manner. In the process no assumptions are made regarding the nature of the reservoir changes. Also no assumptions ...
Data from towed streamer surveys in shallow water depths are usually contaminated by different orders of seafloor reflections called water-layer-related multiples (WLRMs). The model-based water-layer demultiple (MWD) method effectively removes WLRMs. The initial development of 2D MWD was followed by a 3D implementation to ...
Full waveform inversion usually fails to update the sediment velocity in close vicinity of the top of salt (TOS) because of the strong velocity contrast between the sediment and salt. This phenomenon is a common challenge in practice, and it is not yet well ...
Low-frequency seismic data are crucial for the success of full waveform inversion (FWI) used in velocity model building. Marine acquisition technologies have evolved to increase low-frequency seismic signals. However, significant low-frequency noise, often caused by water flowing across the streamers, still alters the signal-to-noise ...
Ocean bottom node (OBN) data by nature have a broader bandwidth; however, the presence of source-side ghosts can reduce the useful frequency range and therefore damage seismic resolution. We demonstrate the benefits of 3D deghosting for OBN data from the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) ...
Over recent years, many authors have proposed to compensate the absorption loss effects inside of the imaging process through the use of an attenuation model. This is more particularly necessary in the presence of strong attenuations anomalies. Q tomography has been developed for estimating ...
RTM surface offset gathers (SOG) contain subsalt events spanning the entire offset range (i.e., longer usable curvatures for tomography). RTM SOGs also have more reliable residual curvatures because each offset and azimuth group is migrated independently and does not interfere with the neighboring ones ...
We designed and implemented a practical and comprehensive workflow to mitigate missing source wavelet information and waveforms with vast spatial variation for land dynamite surveys and addressed the common challenges of acoustic-FWI application on land surveys during field data preparation.
A flexible Radon modelling algorithm using time-frequency sparseness weights is introduced. The method may be used for a number of applications and combines the dealiasing and time resolution benefits of existing methods. Compared with a frequency domain sparseness approach, the proposed method results in ...