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The importance of inverting jointly velocity and density parameters in full waveform inversion (FWI) is well established. In a former work we had proposed an innovative preserved amplitude FWI allowing improving the convergence rate of FWI. It was derived from preserved amplitude reverse time ...

Spectral broadening of migrated and stacked seismic images is a common method to enhance interpretability of reflection data. In this paper we propose a prestack AVA compliant spectral broadening approach based on non-stationary wavelet deconvolution. The algorithm employs AVA coupling in the prestack domain ...

Posing migration as an inverse or a least-squares problem can improve the quality of imaging. This class of techniques can resolve illumination issues and improve focusing. Standard iterative least-squares imaging can be expensive and results are often compromised. We present a procedure using matching ...

The search for hydrocarbons has spanned vast areas of the globe. Despite many successes, entire basins and plays have been deemed unprospective, perhaps prematurely, based on single well results, or poor-quality seismic data. The advent of broadband seismic acquisition, combined with new deghosting/imaging algorithms ...

The Northern Viking Graben seismic dataset was acquired using CGG’s BroadSeis™/BroadSource™ true broadband solution, which combines a multi-level source and curved variable-depth streamer technology with advanced and customized imaging technologies. The dataset covers more than 35,000 km2, spanning both the Norwegian and UK North ...

DENVER–The economics of unconventional plays can be improved by placing horizontal wellbores to target facies with the most favorable reservoir and geomechanical properties. Recognizing that, an integrated multidisciplinary approach was developed to reduce economic risk, facilitate improved and faster decision making, and enable more ...

The aim of this study is to discuss the challenges for interbed multiple attenuation in the Asia-Pacific region. Many possible multiple generators such as seafloor, carbonate layer or volcanic flow are found in the data. Without any prior subsurface knowledge, the ISS method is ...

An integrated geological and petrophysical workflow was used to evaluate the Jurassic shale plays in southern England. It illustrates how sedimentological and electrofacies interpretations were integrated with QEMSCAN data to significantly improve petrophysical interpretations and TOC estimates from logs using the CARBOLOG method. Reservoir ...

Parameterization lies at the center of anisotropic full-waveform inversion (FWI) with multiparameter updates. This is because FWI aims to update the long and short wavelengths of the perturbations. Recently, there has been an intensive effort to determine the optimal parameterization, centering the fundamental discussion ...