In order to solve the challenges of imaging the shallow reservoirs of the Barents Sea, CGG, in collaboration with Lundin Norway, have developed an innovative source-over-spread acquisition solution, known as TopSeis. This addresses the lack of near-offset data recorded in conventional towed-streamer acquisition by ...
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A Log Based Method of Determining Dynamic Biot’s Coefficient
A Log Based Method of Determining Dynamic Biot’s Coefficient
This study uses multiple wells with high-quality acoustic and density logs to demonstrate a rock physics workflow for determining dynamic Biots’s coefficient from detailed petrophysical evaluation. One of the important inputs needed for determining dynamic Biots’s coefficient is a detailed interpretation of the rock ...
Unlocking Gas Reserves in Bypassed Stratigraphic Traps in a Deep-water Brownfield using Prestack Seismic Inversion, A Case Study Offshore Nile Delta, Egypt
Unlocking Gas Reserves in Bypassed Stratigraphic Traps in a Deep-water Brownfield using Prestack Seismic Inversion, A Case Study Offshore Nile Delta, Egypt
In deep-water depositional systems such as the slope canyon-turbidite channel system encountered on the continental slope, offshore West Nile Delta Basin, deterministic prestack seismic inversion followed by facies classification delineated thick-bedded and thin-bedded gas-sand reservoirs encased in bypassed stratigraphic traps and also delineated prospective ...
Geologically-consistent multiphysics imaging of the Darajat geothermal steam field
Geologically-consistent multiphysics imaging of the Darajat geothermal steam field
This paper presents joint 3D MT, gravity, and MEQ tomography inversions at the Darajat geothermal filed, in Java, Indonesia, using cross-gradients to link the different geophysical properties. An additional structural constraint is provided via cross-gradients to the current geological porosity model for the field ...
Improved reservoir imaging using specular dip-angle migration
Improved reservoir imaging using specular dip-angle migration
We show how to separate the seismic image into specular reflections and diffractions using dip-angle gathers. A North Sea example and a 4D example are used to show the efficacy of the algorithm. The 4D example shows a significant reduction in imaging noise.
Multi-Sensor Receiver Deghosting Using Data Domain Sparseness Weights
Multi-Sensor Receiver Deghosting Using Data Domain Sparseness Weights
While the benefits of vertical particle velocity measurements are well known for towed streamer receiver deghosting, in many cases high noise levels can cause practical issues. We describe an inversion-driven receiver deghosting approach which is jointly constrained by hydrophone data and prior wavefield separated ...
Towards Super-resolution Surface Wave Tomography Using Interferometry
Towards Super-resolution Surface Wave Tomography Using Interferometry
A Rayleigh surface wave tomography with optimal coverage approach based on the creation of virtual raypaths by interferometry is proposed. The array based conventional surface wave picking methods often provides inhomogeneous or sparse coverage for high-resolution tomography. The delivered inversion result can suffer from ...
We introduce a method for separating residual statics and NMO velocities by maximising sparsity in tau-v and tau-p domains. Surface Consistent statics are computed without a-priori knowledge about velocities needed for NMO corrections. In such way static time shifts will not be applied to ...
FWI with Optimal Transport: a 3D Implementation and an Application on a Field Dataset
FWI with Optimal Transport: a 3D Implementation and an Application on a Field Dataset
We present the application to a 3D real dataset of full waveform inversion (FWI) with optimal transport (OT) using the Kantorovich-Rubinstein (KR) distance as proposed by Métivier et al. (2016). This approach involves an efficient numerical implementation for OT in time and space directions ...