The development of time-lag FWI (TLFWI) in recent years has enabled the use of the full wavefield (primary reflection, multiple, ghost, and diving waves) in inversion. With this advance it is now possible to include ever more detail in the velocity model, ultimately reaching ...
Although the resolution of a seismic image is ultimately bound by the spatial and temporal sampling of the acquired seismic data, the seismic images obtained through conventional imaging methods normally fall far short of this limit. Conventional seismic imaging methods take a piecemeal approach ...
CGG’s Dr. Ellie MacInnes looks at how geoscience can help deliver economical, efficient geothermal energy in line with global sustainability targets.
We present the main results of a tailored velocity model building workflow on a recent broadband survey from North Kuwait. Depth imaging in Kuwait presents several challenges, including the need to capture the strong velocity variations of a complex near surface that generates long ...
Applications of full-waveform inversion (FWI) to land data have proven much more challenging than to marine data. The difficulties are linked to a lower signal-to-noise ratio but also to a greater influ-ence of elastic wave phenomena in these data sets, especially those characterized by ...
Fizz gas detection is a critical step in field development as it is often difficult to differentiate it from commercial gas in reservoirs on acquired seismic data. In a shallow reservoir context, it is theoretically possible to observe a fizz gas effect through a ...
The Haugaland High, in the Norwegian North Sea, consists of a layered overburden of sub-horizontal sediments of almost 2km thick which sits on the Cretaceous Chalk. The background velocity regime of these top layers has a low vertical gradient down to the Chalk interface ...
This study aimed to provide greater insight into the question of whether a near-field Paleozoic interval could retain sufficient reservoir quality to be attractive for future exploration. To meet this challenge, an integrated multidisciplinary approach was adopted that brought together detailed geological analysis with ...
To improve the imaging of the Barents Sea’s Nordkapp basin, either in terms of resolution or geological structure, a new seismic acquisition design was proposed, using a widespread hexa-source sitting on top of 18 non-flat streamers. Imaging this new recorded data required specific and ...