Joint Downhole and Surface Microseismic Processing Using 3C Template Relative Migration

T. Bardainne, L. Delmas, N. Belayouni, D. Katz, P.-F. Roux

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., it is limited in sensitivity by ambient noise and higher attenuation. These two techniques are complementary; by jointly processing the arrays...

The Effects of Seismic Data Conditioning on Pre-Stack Simultaneous Impedance Inversion

Scott W. Singleton

GCAGS Transactions

... is seen by many as a prerequisite to pre-stack inversion. This paper discusses three conditioning processes—signal/noise (S/N) improvement, stretch...

Single-sensor towed streamer acquisition: a case study from the Gulf of Mexico

P. Munoz, J. Uribe, N. Moldoveanu

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... attenuates the coherent noise without affecting the signal. the streamer can be deployed at a shallower depth and this improves the high-frequency content...

Gleaning Meaningful Information from Seismic Attributes

Search and Discovery.com

... are loaded on workstations, they may still show a certain amount of noise level. This noise could be of various sorts - acquisition related, processing...

Abstract: Simultaneous Source Separation Via Robust Time Variant Radon Operators; #90187 (2014)

Amr Ibrahim and Mauricio D. Sacchi

Search and Discovery.com

... detector domain the signal is coherent over hyperbolic paths and blending noise manifests as erratic inferences. Moore et al. (2008) and Akerberg et...

Seismic Acquisition in the Papuan Fold Belt: A New Approach

G. S. Hill, S. J. Price, M. S. Foster, R. W. Stephenson, D. Ellis, J. A. Lyslo

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

..., C.J., 1994, Measuring the Effect of 3-D Coherent Noise on Seismic Data Quality; presented as part of a post -convention work­ shop, Society...

4D seismic-guided injected volume estimation: A pseudo-skeletonization approach

Joao Nunes Jorge, Cyril Agut, Tom Blanchard, Julie Granel, Pierre Thore

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and the Noise Characterization Cross-Plot (NCCP) methodology. While explaining the limitations of this method, its efficiency will be illustrated through two...

3-D AVO Analysis and Modeling Applied to Fracture Detection in Coalbed Methane Reservoirs

Antonio C.B. Ramos, T.L. Davis

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... data prior to fitting. Undulations in the normalized RMS amplitude data are mainly caused by converted waves and coherent noise, which can contribute...

Crustal thickness and velocity structure of southern Peninsular Malaysia

Abdul Halim Abdul Latiff, Amin Esmail Khalil

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... (Clayton & Wiggins, 1976). Nevertheless, due to the low signal to noise ratios of the tele-seismic earthquake data obtained, the receiver functions were...

Study of the Seismic Attenuation Generated by the Mud Layer in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela

J. Perez, E. Andara, B. Malave

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... in this same location, including decreased resolution as depth increases, hard reverberation or ringing, linear noise, guide waves and mud waves...

Danish Sector: Insight into Mature and Deeper Plays

Will Bradbury, Steve Drewell, Gulnara Hickman, TGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

...-offset domains were applied to target the removal of coherent and incoherent noise. Once the dataset was relatively clean of incoherent noise, TGS...

Angolan Kwanza Basin … Expanding Proven Opportunities

Madhurima Bhattacharya, Harrison Moore

GEO ExPro Magazine

... was fully addressing the seismic interference (SI) noise caused by other seismic vessels conducting acquisition in the area as well as coherent noise from...

Minimizing Depth Uncertainties Through Effective Seismic Processing Strategies in a Complex Geological Setting - Unlocking Deeper Potentials Offshore Indonesia

M Afiq B Mokhtar, Riaz Alai, Yonghe Guo, Pongga Wardaya, Jun Wang, Rizki Krishna Pratama, Haryono Haryanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... a simultaneous noise-controlled joint source and receiver de-ghosting. This vital component has proven to be a game changer in the efforts to further explore...

Adaptive Eigenstructure Classification and Stochastic Decorrelation Filters for Coherent Interference Suppression in the Acoustic Zoom Method, #41503 (2014).

J. Guigne, S. Azad, C. Clements, A. Gogacz, W. Hunt, A. Pant, J. Stacey

Search and Discovery.com

... seismic processing rejects as incoherent noise. Imaging of non-specular returns requires significant attenuation of coherent background interference (e.g....

Ambient Fracture Imaging: A New Passive Seismic Method

Alfred Lacazette, Jan Vermilye, Samuel Fereja, Charles Sicking

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... emissions so that noise was much less of a problem for fracture monitoring. Had less coherent noise been present it is likely that more detail...

AI: a Game Changer in Seismic Acquisition and Processing

Matt Deighton, Sverre Olsen

GEO ExPro Magazine

... the trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to remove of fraud detection is that the coherent image domain noise. Noise indicated by yellow arrows...

Long Period Long Duration Seismic Events During Hydraulic Stimulation of a Shale Gas Reservoir, #40761 (2011)

Indrajit Das, Mark D. Zoback,

Search and Discovery.com

... the characteristic frequency band of microearthquakes (100-300 Hz). Complex but coherent wave trains are observed in both the horizontal and vertical arrays...

Multidomain simultaneous joint inversion for near-surface characterization A case study from onshore US

Nate Johnson, Ali Ahmed Hussein Mohamed, Zhanna Jackson, Seth Riseman, Kevin Douglas

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... with linear moveout applied; shot gather with surface waves highlighted in green (b). A linking function relating the inverted Vp and Vs fields...

ABSTRACT: Shallow Seismic Reflection Profiling of the Bluff Line Lineament in Northwest Mississippi

Jack E. Rader, Daniel C. Rice, James B. Harris

GCAGS Transactions

... of the Mississippi River, and several anomalously straight sections of the bluff line have been identified as possibly fault controlled. One such linear...

A New Approach to Shale Compaction and Its Geological Significance [Abstract]

Issler, D.R.

CSPG Bulletin

... are coherent over broad geographic regions and show a significant change from undercompacted, overpressured sections in the offshore, to normally-pressured...

Compaction Tests on Aragonitic Sediment: ABSTRACT

Eugene C. Robertson

AAPG Bulletin

... of the dry bulk density to the grain density of the sediment, and thus is a linear measure of the approach to solid rock. The effect of raising the pressure...

Insights from the Texas through Time Project

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Abstract: Petrophysical Evaluation of Carbonates from the Weyburn Oil Field using Synchrotron X-ray Computed Microtomography (CMT); #90211 (2015)

Chad Glemser, Tom Kotzer, Steve Whittaker, and Chris Hawkes

Search and Discovery.com

... Microtomography (CMT) is a powerful imaging technique that utilizes coherent and brilliant synchrotron light to produce high-resolution, three-dimensional...

Abstract: Pitfalls in Prestack Inversion of Merged Seismic Surveys; #90239 (2015)

Sumit Verma, Shiguang Guo, Thang Ha, and Kurt Marfurt

Search and Discovery.com

... linear move out to approximately flatten the ground roll phases, estimate the dip about this reference move out, and compute coherence within...

A High-Resolution Seismic Survey to Image the Top of Salt at Avery Island, Louisiana

Dawn Standridge, Cathy Bishop, Gary Kinsland, Robert Schneider, Laura Serpa

GCAGS Transactions

... with coherent noise spatially correlated with the location of a mechanical shop, which was about 160 ft (50 m) away from the line. It is believed...