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DOI:10.1306/10192321180
High-precision seismic imaging for complex deep structures in the hydrocarbon exploration using a coherent-stacking-based least-squares migration
Jianping Huang, Jidong Yang, Tengfei Lin, Zhenchun Li, and Liang Chen
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With the rapid development of the petroleum industry, oil and gas exploration gradually changes from conventional shallow and middle-depth reservoirs to deep and ultra-deep reservoirs. In west China, especially in the Tarim basin, the deep Ordovician and ultra-deep Cambrian carbonate is the most important hydrocarbon reservoir. But because of complex near-surface condition and complicated subsurface structures, high-precision seismic imaging for such deep and ultra-deep reservoirs is still challenging with the state-of-art migration methods. One of the critical factors is that the reflections from deep and ultra-deep strata cannot be coherently stacked in the migration because of accumulative traveltime errors caused by inaccurate velocity model. To mitigate this issue, we present a coherent-stack-based least-squares migration (LSM) approach to improve the imaging quality for deep and ultra-deep structures. Unlike traditional LSM that uses the stacked gradient during iterations, the proposed method updates the reflectivity model in subsurface half-opening angle domain, and then applies a coherent stacking to implement constructive summation for angle-domain common-image gathers. The new LSM scheme enables us to reduce the artifacts caused by inaccurate velocity model and produces high-quality image for deep and ultra-deep strata. Two models with typical steep-dipping faults, overthrust folds and fault-karst carbonate reservoirs are designed to test the feasibility of the proposed method, and a field dataset from a land survey is used to demonstrate its adaptability for low SNR data.
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