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In this paper, we focus on how to use PS imaging to help detecting the reservoir in the clastic layers. PS data allows for imaging of these reservoir units that have poor P-wave but high PS-wave reflectivity and also for lithological discrimination via extracted ...

It is often observed that common image gathers computed after FWI are not flat. This is due to an improper anisotropy estimation. We propose a new joint reflections-diving rays tomography to estimate anisotropy prior to FWI. It aims at both flattening the common image ...

Standard prestack depth migration (PSDM), e.g., Kirchhoff/RTM, is by nature unable to fully recover the reflectivity with desired amplitude and resolution due to factors such as inhomogeneous subsurface illumination and irregular acquisition geometry. This shortcoming is well recognized by the imaging community and has ...

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 ...

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 ...