Fast Gauss-Newton full-wavefield migration

Siamak Abolhassani, Eric Verschuur

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...* and Eric Verschuur, Delft University of Technology SUMMARY Since the appearance of wave-equation migration, many have tried to push this technology...

Organically-Rich Sweet Spot Determination in Utica Shale; #42137 (2017)

Satinder Chopra, Ritesh Kumar Sharma, Hossein Nemati, James Keay

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.... In this article, we demonstrate the identification of organically rich sweet spots within the Point Pleasant interval using 3-D seismic data, and the available...

Imaging challenges at Gulf of Papua (PNG) and their solutions through high-end imaging technology

Zongying Gong, Subhash Chandra, Xiaodong Wu, Yajing Li, Min Zhi, Michael Szczepaniak, Barry Hung

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., M., 2009, 3D prestack depth migration with compensation for frequency dependent absorption and dispersion: 79th Annual International Meeting, SEG...

Chapter 10-part 3: 3-D Depth Image Interpretation

William L. Abriel, Joseph P. Stefani, Robert D. Shank, David C. Bartel

AAPG Special Volumes

... zones. As an example of post-stack time versus depth 3-D imaging, refer to Figures 10-22 and 10-23. The difference between these sections is the migration...

Abstract: Practical Aspects of Land Seismic Imaging, by Dimitri Bevc, Tony Rebec, and Walt Ritchie; #90076 (2008)

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Moho, Basin Dynamics, Salt Stock Family Development, and Hydrocarbon System Examples of the North German Basin Revisited by Applying Seismic Common Reflection Surface Processing

Heinz-Juergen Brink, Dirk Gajewski, Mikhail Baykulov, Mi-Kyung Yoon

AAPG Special Volumes

... with a salt-stock family (Baldschuhn et al., 2001).FIGURE 6. Prestack depth migration (PreSDM) of the common reflection surface (CRS) supergathers...

Chapter 3: Seismic Data Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation in the Cook Inlet Basin — Local Geologic and Logistical Impacts

Diane P. Shellenbaum

AAPG Special Volumes

... been limited to time windows around the four slack tides per day (two at high tide, two at low tide). Even 3-D acquisition was primarily single-streamer...

Using Freehand Three-dimensional Drawings to Clarify and Verify Subsurface Structural Interpretations

Donald S. Stone

AAPG Special Volumes

... consistent three-dimensional (3-D) interpretation. The time-honored methods of constructing structural contour maps and structural cross sections based...

Visualization Technology for the Oil and Gas Industry: Today and Tomorrow

Roger M. Slatt , M. Ray Thomasson , Philip R. Romig Jr. , Eric S. Pasternack , Albert Boulanger , Roger N. Anderson , H. Roice Nelson Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... and potential end-users of visualization technology consider the most important aspects to include common formats for data interchang , greater availability...

5D Interpolation Adds Value at the Drill Bit for a Texas 3D Seismic Survey

K. Rene‘ Mott, William Keller, Mike Perz

GCAGS Transactions

..., prestack interpolation, and prestack time migration as shown below: Reprocessing Workflow Geometry, Pre-decon noise attenuation, Surface consistent...

Abstracts: Evaluation of a New 5D Seismic Volume Reconstruction Method: Tensor Completion versus Fourier Reconstruction; #90173 (2015)

Nadia Kreimer and Mauricio D. Sacchi

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... of Physics and Institute for Geophysical Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [email protected] Summary Multi-dimensional...

Reservoir Characterization and Modeling: A Look Back to See the Way Forward

Xinghe Yu, Y. Zee Ma, David Psaila, Paul La Pointe, Ernest Gomez, Shengli Li

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Hubbard, S. S. Williams, and K. H. Roberts, 1998, Moisture migration using high resolution time-lapse radar tomography: Proceedings of the 68th Annual...

Application of wave-equation reflection traveltime inversion to the Liwan deep-water streamer data in the South China Sea

Yilin Wang, Liangguo Dong, Chao Huang, Jianming Zhang, Yuzhu Liu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...re-stack shot gather separated with three time windows The WRTI is used to update the background velocity, and the reverse time migration (R...

Integrated Study of Ancient Delta-Front Deposits, Using Outcrop, Ground-Penetrating Radar, and Three-Dimensional Photorealistic Data: Cretaceous Panther Tongue Sandstone, Utah, U.S.A.

Cornel Olariu, Janok P. Bhattacharya, Xueming Xu, Carlos L.V. Aiken, Xiaoxian Zeng, George A. Mcmechan

Special Publications of SEPM

... studies stop with processing after time-zero alignment, and only a few remove air waves or correct for topography. Migration of GPR data is relatively...

Pore pressure prediction while drilling: Three-dimensional earth model in the Gulf of Mexico

Fausto Mosca, Obren Djordjevic, Thomas Hantschel, Jim McCarthy, Ana Krueger, Dave Phelps, Tayo Akintokunbo, Thorsten Joppen, Klaas Koster, Michael Schupbach, Kenneth Hampshire, and Andy MacGregor

AAPG Bulletin

... correctly imaged prestack depth-migrated 3-D seismic volumes. Figure 5. Salt restoration through time based on thickness maps imported from 3D Move...

Reservoir Description using hybrid seismic inversion: A 3D case study from María Inés Oeste field, Argentina

M. Benabentos, S. Mallick, M. Sigismondi, J. Soldo

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... been successful in many parts of the field, it has also resulted in some dry wells. The primary purpose of this investigation was to use prestack...

5-D Interpolation Compensates for Poor Sampling, by Daniel Trad; #41504 (2014).

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Land seismic multi-parameter FWI imaging

Mason Phillips, James McLeman, Vlada Avramovic, Tom Rayment, Stuart Schmitt, Mike Varner, Yasser Khalifeh, Ahmad Ammar Chahine, Eskil Jersing

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... processing and imaging workflow, we migrated the fully processed seismic data using both COV Kirchhoff prestack depth migration (KDM) and reverse-time...

Chapter Ten-part 2: Depth Conversion

Leslie R. Denham, Dave K. Agarwal

AAPG Special Volumes

.... 68–86. Hubral, P., 1977, Time migration — some ray-theoretical aspects: Geophysical prospecting, v. 25, p. 738–745. Liner, C. L., 1996, Seismos...

Fundamental 3-D Seismic Survey Design

Stuart Wright

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., then it is time t o direct the seismic budget elsewhere. Before making that decision however, bear in mind that the ability of 3-D t o better image...

Three-dimensional printing for geoscience: Fundamental research, education, and applications for the petroleum industry

Sergey Ishutov, T. Dawn Jobe, Shuo Zhang, Miguel Gonzalez, Susan M. Agar, Franciszek J. Hasiuk, Francesca Watson, Sebastian Geiger, Eric Mackay, and Richard Chalaturnyk

AAPG Bulletin

... over geologic time. Recommendations on the improvement of existing methods of 3-D printing proxies outlined in this section can also lead...

A Geologic Review of the Mahogany Subsalt Discovery: A Well That Proved a Play (The Mahogany Subsalt Discovery: A Unique Hydrocarbon Play, Offshore Louisiana), by Holly Harrison, Dwight ‘Clint’ Moore, and Peggy Hodgkins, #60049 (2010).

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Improved Understanding and Interpretability Beneath the Complex Accretionary Section in West Timor, Indonesia, Via Marine Broadband Seismic and Beam Depth Migration

Mazin Farouki, Felice D'Alterio, Erika Gentile

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Prestack Time Migration (PSTM) Velocity model building for 3D Beam Prestack Depth Migration (PSDM): 8 iterations of grid and layer based tomography...

Benchmarking exploration predictions and performance using 20+ yr of drilling results: One company’s experience

Kurt W. Rudolph, and Frank J. Goulding

AAPG Bulletin

... (Figure 4). Improvements in seismic imaging around this time (such as prestack depth migration) may also be a factor. Figure 16. Conventional wildcat...

Abstract: Simultaneous P-P and P-S Waveform Inversion Algorithm Using Pre-Stack Time Imaging Method ; #90187 (2014)

Hassan Khaniani, John C. Bancroft, and Eric von Lunen

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... operator of the forward modeling, which is usually based on Reverse Time Migration (RTM) on the data residual and finds the gradient function from...