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A joint inversion of P-wave first arrivals, surface wave dispersion curves, and horizon picking of reflectivity image is proposed in order to produce a high resolution Vp (and Vs) model of the near-surface. These three datasets are merged together in a stochastic optimization process ...

With many production reservoirs located at a depth greater than 1km, the near surface is often overlooked during seismic processing. Therefore, valuable information relating to shallow geohazards, faults and changes to lithology are lost or unused. We present a new processing methodology to improve ...

The presence of absorption (Q) anomalies in the overburden, typically associated with gas accumulations, cause seismic obscured areas in our images and reduce our ability to see and interpret events inside the resulting “shadow zone”. In this paper we present our recent developments for ...

We show how the method recently proposed in Messud et al. (2017; 2017b) allows to consider “resolved space” tomographic uncertainties in complement to total tomographic uncertainties. Resolved space uncertainties are obtained by restricting the tomography model space to the one that can be resolved ...

This work highlights visco-acoustic full-waveform inversion (Q-FWI) as a method for estimating high-resolution velocity and attenuation models. We present a very large, real data, case study where Q-FWI has been applied to ~36,000 km2 of 3D, narrow azimuth, variable-depth streamer data over the North ...

Land surface seismic data are usually strongly affected by the presence of surface waves, (ground-roll), which can completely obscure the underlying primary reflection signal. It is therefore crucial to isolate the reflection signal for both imaging and amplitude analysis needs. Complex near-surface conditions complicate ...

Hydrocarbon prospection with seismic data on Barents Sea can be difficult to interpret because of severe contaminations of the sections by diffracted multiples residual noises often located above the objectives. Those diffracted multiples mainly result from significant scars of the sea floor produced by ...

This paper is the second part of two papers presenting the new source-over-cable marine acquisition solution. It presents the actual large-scale ~1950 km2 marine seismic acquisition as well as discusses the novel processing and imaging involved with this unique split-spread towed marine data. The ...

This paper reviews the benefits of using “high-end new-generation” de-noising tools on a broadband single-source single-sensor Wide Azimuth survey acquired in Kuwait. A processing pilot has been conducted in a very challenging area containing agricultural and industrial zones, as well as various natural and ...