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Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a method of velocity estimation which minimizes the misfit between recorded and modeled data, the parameters of the minimization being the velocity model. If the velocity model is smooth, then only the refracted waves are modeled and used, if ...

Time-lapse seismic processing in carbonate fields having complex geology and in difficult seismic contexts requires highly specialized teams for success. Our field case has a flat structure, a poorly-imaged but highly reflective sea bottom and is covered by towed-streamer data in about 60m of ...

2D deconvolution is an attractive approach for short period multiple prediction as it does not require direct recording of the multiple generator and can model multiples relating to more than one multiple generator at a time. One drawback, however, relates to an inherent over ...

Make a technical workflow including rockphysics, post-stack gestatistical inversion, seismic forward research and coal constrained pre-stack geostatistical inversion for the fine reservoir predictiong under coal interbedded. This work flow achieved huge success in the new development wells drilling.

A subsurface volume that can be reliably interpreted in terms of geologically-relevant attributes is a reasonable objective for products from depth inversion workflows. Commonly the field geophysics data available are inherently non-unique and deficient (noise, aliasing, etc.), so an implementation of some type of ...

Standard reflection-based model building for land applications is challenging due to reduced data quality, near-surface heterogeneities, and the low-fold of reflection data at shallow depths. Broadband and large offset data acquisitions have been developed with the aim of investigating full waveform inversion (FWI) as ...

Over the recent years, numerous case studies have highlighted the strong link between the geophysical value of seismic acquisition and the maximization of two metrics: trace density (expressed as the number of source-receiver pairs per square kilometers) and frequency bandwidth (expressed in octaves). Here ...

The detection and mapping of fractures in migrated poststack 3D seismic data depends on the resolution and signal-tonoise ratio of the data in the seismic volume. A discussion of resolution problems and the limits of resolution in post-stack 3D seismic data, and structurally-oriented post-stack ...

Seismic Interference (SI) has long been a problem for seismic data acquisition in congested areas such as the North Sea, but thanks to advances in processing algorithms and new cooperative management techniques developed in conjunction with Statoil and RIL, downtime or time sharing due ...