A case history in West Texas, in the Permian Basin, of a non-exclusive seismic imaging project spanning acquisition, processing and reservoir interpretation. Located in Howard and Glasscock counties, the Hobo non-exclusive seismic survey aims at imaging and quantitatively interpreting the Spraberry and Wolfcamp formations.
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Predicting, monitoring and alerting of landslides and ground deformation affecting transport infrastructure
Predicting, monitoring and alerting of landslides and ground deformation affecting transport infrastructure
Abstract focusses on the LiveLand ESA IAP project and summarises how earth observation, weather forecast and GNSS can assist with the challenges transport operators across Scotland experience in relation to landslides and ground deformation along transport routes.
Extracting seismic uncertainties from tomographic velocity inversion and their use in reservoir risk analysis
Extracting seismic uncertainties from tomographic velocity inversion and their use in reservoir risk analysis
Structural information in seismic images is critical for reservoir delineation, reserve estimation and well planning, but is also uncertain by nature. A cause for this is uncertainty in migration model estimated by tomography that straightforwardly affects position of migrated events, both laterally and vertically ...
Extracting geological information directly from high-resolution full-waveform inversion velocity models - a case study from offshore Trinidad
Extracting geological information directly from high-resolution full-waveform inversion velocity models - a case study from offshore Trinidad
This paper focusses on improving the seismic image on a dataset from offshore Trinidad; Tobago by using full-waveform inversion (FWI) to refine the shallow velocities and also describes geological information that can be inferred directly from the resulting velocity model. In the first half ...
Orthorhombic full-waveform inversion for imaging the Luda field using wide-azimuth ocean-bottom-cable data
Orthorhombic full-waveform inversion for imaging the Luda field using wide-azimuth ocean-bottom-cable data
Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC) acquisition has become the new trend in Bohai area with the benefit of operational flexibility, better illumination, better multiple elimination and better S/N for the targets at middle to deep depth. However, the presence of orthorhombic anisotropy causes severe challenges ...
A snapshot of geotectonics and petroleum geology of the Durban and Zululand Basins, offshore South Africa
A snapshot of geotectonics and petroleum geology of the Durban and Zululand Basins, offshore South Africa
This article reviews the status of hydrocarbon exploration and level of geological understanding in the Durban and Zululand Basins offshore South Africa and it provides clues and new ideas from seismic interpretation and observations of the latest CGG multi-client 2D shot in the area ...
Fracture characterization by seismic anisotropy analysis at Awali anticline structure, Bahrain: Case Study
Fracture characterization by seismic anisotropy analysis at Awali anticline structure, Bahrain: Case Study
The Amplitude Versus Azimuthal AVAZ analysis has proved to be an important tool for characterizing fracture distributions and orientations of hydrocarbon reservoirs. This paper is aiming at the application of this tool for characterizing the fractures in Bahrain field reservoirs. Better understanding of faults ...
An offshore Gabon full-waveform inversion case study
An offshore Gabon full-waveform inversion case study
We present a FWI case study from offshore Gabon of an extremely large dataset covering an area ~25,000 km2, demonstrating that FWI can be applied to this size of survey in a timely manner. The history of the South Gabon basin is complex, leading ...
Near surface velocity models using a combined inversion of surface and refracted P waves
Near surface velocity models using a combined inversion of surface and refracted P waves
In addition to conventional P-wave refraction tomography, we propose a workflow based on the complementary use of Rayleigh waves. We develop a surface wave processing sequence to determine the S-wave near surface velocity field, which can be used as a constraint for P-wave tomography ...