Technical Content

This paper reviews elastic property changes in anisotropic mediums and proposes a workflow to model elastic stiffness tensor using conventional well logs in a vertical transverse isotropic medium. The proposed workflow uses the concept of downscaling and then upscaling of normal logs using Backus ...

3D VSP data provides a unique opportunity to improve image resolution and fault definition in the vicinity of a well. However, the processing and imaging of VSP data requires special accommodations for its distinctive acquisition geometry. In this abstract, we demonstrate two key VSP ...

A quantitative interpretation was carried out in order to improve geological model and de-risk the prospect in the next exploration drilling campaign. Recently drilled exploration wells based on conventional seismic interpretation drilled through channel levee instead of the targeted channel core. Vertical resolution, reservoir ...

Pre-stack elastic inversion requires a reliable wavelet model. This wavelet model must take into account the angle dependency of the wavelet, as well as the time dependency. This is even more important for broadband data, as the wavelets exhibit more variations, due to the ...

We investigated how current least-squares reverse time migration (LSRTM) methods perform on subsalt images. First, we compared the formulation of data-domain vs. image-domain least-squares migration (LSM), as well as methods using single-iteration approximation vs. iterative inversion. Next, we examined the resulting subsalt images of ...

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 ...