Technical Content

A subsurface volume that can be reliably interpreted in terms of geologically-relevant attributes is a reasonable objective for products from depth inversion workflows. Commonly the field geophysics data available are inherently non-unique and deficient (noise, aliasing, etc.), so an implementation of some type of ...

Standard reflection-based model building for land applications is challenging due to reduced data quality, near-surface heterogeneities, and the low-fold of reflection data at shallow depths. Broadband and large offset data acquisitions have been developed with the aim of investigating full waveform inversion (FWI) as ...

In this paper, we discuss the deblending result of a penta-source marine towed streamer data. The small dithering time renders the cross-talk noise to be semi-coherent in all domains, making this dataset challenging for existing deblending techniques. To tackle this data, we propose a ...

3D elastic modelling was performed to compare two acquisition designs . Blind full processing sequence was applied to ensure unbiased conclusions and final quality. Final quality on stack sections are similar in quality for both flat and highly structured sub-surface. some major advantages of ...

Difficulties in processing land seismic data often arise due to insufficient sampling of the wavefield. Fully unconstrained simultaneous shooting offers a way to substantially increase productivity and hence source densities, leading to improved sampling of the wavefield. In order to achieve this we must ...

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a method of velocity estimation which minimizes the misfit between recorded and modeled data, the parameters of the minimization being the velocity model. If the velocity model is smooth, then only the refracted waves are modeled and used, if ...

Time-lapse seismic processing in carbonate fields having complex geology and in difficult seismic contexts requires highly specialized teams for success. Our field case has a flat structure, a poorly-imaged but highly reflective sea bottom and is covered by towed-streamer data in about 60m of ...

Over the recent years, numerous case studies have highlighted the strong link between the geophysical value of seismic acquisition and the maximization of two metrics: trace density (expressed as the number of source-receiver pairs per square kilometers) and frequency bandwidth (expressed in octaves). Here ...

In this paper we present a new source-over-cable marine seismic acquisition technique that initially was developed to meet imaging challenges of the Loppa High in the Norwegian Barents Sea. Two seismic vessels operate in tandem; one streamer vessel towing a spread of deep, densely ...