Technical Content

The success of any broadband survey is dependent upon the accuracy with which acquisition and environmental factors are compensated for in processing. Such compensation ideally involves directional source designature and deghosting along with receiver deghosting. Traditionally, receiver deghosting is applied in the shot domain ...

Making informed field development decisions requires taking uncertainty into account. Geostatistical inversion is a key technology for quantifying uncertainties using available seismic and well data. However, the common practice, consisting of choosing the "best possible" parameters, results in unrealistically small uncertainty estimates. In this ...

The size and complexity of the mega gas clouds in offshore Brunei pose severe imaging problems to the structures underneath. We present a comprehensive technical package to tackle the complex wave propagation and anelastic energy losses associated with these gas clouds. We started by ...

Deblending procedure for dense land/OBC/OBN acquisition based on sparsity promoted inverse problem. A general formulation for simulatneous source acquisitions is used to recover data from highly blended acqusition. This procedure uses cutting-edge mathematical tools from Compressed Sensing theory like l1-regularized inverse problem in the ...

In this paper, we propose an SVD-based (singular value decomposition) shear noise attenuation method that relies on P to drive the algorithm allowing a good signal preservation on Z. Using a fast SVD kernel, this method is suitable for large datasets. We demonstrate the ...

Removing the band limitation by the seismic source wavelet may further enhance the spatial resolution of seismic images after de-ghosting and amplitude attenuation compensation. In this abstract authors propose a new de-signature method that incorporates structural conformity constraint and sparse regularization into the inversion-based ...

While for reverse time migration deconvolution imaging condition offers the strongest possibility for source designature and compensation of illumination, cross-correlation-based imaging conditions are the most widely used due to their high stability. We propose here a general theoretical frame and practical solution for stabilizing ...

We applied full waveform inversion to a seismic dataset from offshore Gabon. This dataset features complex geology such as diapirism, shallow gas pockets and dewatering faults. We show the results on a large production-size swath from an advanced full waveform inversion method based on ...

Numerous evaluations, conducted on various sites, converge towards a shared conclusion: the geophysical value of an acquisition is primarily driven by the density of traces acquired in the field. To confirm this principle also applies in North Africa, ENI and CGG agreed on a ...