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Although wavefield extrapolation techniques are well developed for P-wave seismic imaging, ray based migration algorithms are still the workhorse for converted-wave (PS-wave) depth imaging. Full (exact) elastic-wave reverse-time anisotropic migration (RTM) has not been widely adopted for reasons of computational and workflow efficiency, despite ...

4D seismic processing is designed to minimize non-repeatable noise while preserving real 4D signal. Coherent noise, such as from surface and interbed multiples, has different character from one vintage to another. Mitigating for these unwanted effects in a vintage-independent manner leads to suboptimal 4D ...

A precise knowledge of the seismic source far-field signature is required for accurate source de-signature. Near-field hydrophone data can be used to provide good quality signatures but are not always available. We describe a method of extracting the far-field signature from inversion of direct ...

Changes in fracture direction across interfaces can have an important impact on PS-wave reflection coefficients in azimuthally anisotropic media. Extending conventional joint inversion with P-waves to include amplitude variations with azimuth (AVAz) would use radial and transverse reflection coefficients (RPSV and RPSH, respectively), and ...

We presented a joint tomography flow for OBN and streamer WAZ data in deep water Gulf of Mexico. This tomography provides the method to utilize surface offset gathers from surveys with different shot and receiver datums together for joint tomography. By incorporating both OBN ...

We discuss methods to quantify the impact, reliability and value of low frequencies as provided in modern towed streamer broadband acquisitions. Acquisition, processing and inversion all have a role to play in creating reliable low frequency data. In this paper, focusing on marine data ...

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, FWI derived better ...

The carbonates in the pre-salt area of the Santos basin off-shore Brazil are good candidates for potential reservoirs of hydrocarbons. The presence of highly reflective stratified salt in this basin, combined with the focusing of energy due to the concave shape of these reflectors ...

While 5D data reconstruction has become widespread in recent years, we show that the use of 5D model spaces in some settings may result in sub-optimal handling of structures exhibiting HTI traveltime behaviour. To overcome these problems we propose the use of a 6D ...