Technical Abstract
Dip-angle image filtering for 4D processing of towed-streamer and OBN datasets
Back to Technical ContentAlthough good for time-lapse monitoring, ocean-bottom surveys often miss the first time-step of initial fluid production. To capture this it is necessary to co-process ocean-bottom data with the exploration dataset, usually towed streamer. Our North Sea study has significant 4D noise produced by un-cancelled migration operator from the very different, irregular, survey geometries after 4D binning. We migrate to common-offset, scattering-angle, and dip-angle output domains to explore similarity-filtering strategies with the data. Both the scattering- and dip-angle gathers respond well to similarity filtering, but results show greatest signal continuity and coherence when dip-angle gathers are used.
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EAGE - European Association of Geoscientists and EngineersAuthors
R.R. Haacke (CGG), L. Casasanta (CGG), S. Hou (CGG) & J.R. Henderson (Nexen)