Technical Content

In the North Sea, water bottom related surface multiples offer one of the largest challenges to a seismic processing project with a careful balance between multiple attenuation and primary preservation required when using a model and subtract approach. For Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) data ...

Stratal geometries, reservoir and source facies are different in true lakes, in lakes with restricted access to the global ocean, and in “lakes” continuously connected to the global ocean but capped by large quantities of freshwater. We illustrate the importance for exploration and development ...

Small-scale heterogeneities create distortions in the wavefield that are usually resolved by Full Waveform Inversion (FWI). When FWI fails (for lack of diving waves or low frequencies), recent works promote the use of targeted stochastic approaches maximizing the stack power. We instead revisit here ...

The quality of time-lapse analysis depends highly on the repeatability of the acquisition. However, in practice, it is almost impossible to perfectly mimic a base survey due to environmental conditions and inaccurate measurements. Lack of repeatability often results in 4D noise, which may compromise ...

Sub-basalt seismic imaging is very challenging due to large impedance contrasts at sediment-basalt interfaces. The impedance of basalt usually gives a strong reflection coefficient at the top of basalt, and thus generates strong multiples. Offshore western India, this issue is compounded by short-period seabed ...

The attenuation of surface related multiples is typically one of the most challenging steps in the processing of shallow water marine projects. Least-squares wave-equation deconvolution imaging is a powerful tool to address this challenge, but images derived from a deep target level may produce ...

The Taranaki Basin is one of New Zealand’s largest basins. Initially forming as a Cretaceous rift basin, it has over 400 exploration and production wells. Early basin history is characterized by extensional fault blocks, and as basin evolution continued, thrusting and inversion associated with ...

The desire for ultra-high density (UHD) seismic surveys is now becoming more achievable for future exploration and field development with the increasing availability of versatile nodal land systems. Acquisition geometry design using a higher density of sources as well as receivers considerably reduces the ...

A high-resolution seismic image is of great importance to exploration and production in many ways, such as bypassing drilling hazards and identifying compartmentalized reservoirs. To achieve seismic resolution as high as possible, the conventional seismic imaging process takes more of a linear approach to ...