A Comprehensive Approach to Depth Imaging in Thrust Belt Environments

Ron Schmid, Brian Link, Patrick Butler

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... are identified that pass through key structural locations as well as sparsely span the entire data volume. Using an implementation of Kirchhoff migration...

Prestack Depth Imaging Within the Makassar Straits, Eastern Kalimantan, Indonesia

Chris Willacy, Suryadi Oemar, A. Edy Hermantoro, Paul Gilleran

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... information for migration purposes. The Kirchhoff migration method is essentially the summation of a series of impulse responses which overlap in space...

Abstract: Efficient Broadband Marine Acquisition and Processing for Improved Resolution and Deep Imaging; #90172 (2014)

Ed Kragh, Tim Brice, Tony Curtis, Josef Heim, Deepak Kapadia, Morten Svendsen

Search and Discovery.com

... representative inline images from the processed 3D migrated volume. A Kirchhoff pre-stack time migration was used. The left panel is the shallow...

Enhanced ray-based tomography method

Jonathan Liu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...). The Kirchhoff pre-stack migration gathers associated with the initial model show non-hyperbolic RMO events in the central section between the midpoint...

High Resolution Diffraction Imaging of Small Scale Fractures in Shale and Carbonate Reservoirs

Alexander M. Popovici, Ioan Sturzu, Tijmen J. Moser

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... be expressed as a reflection suppressing kernel for Kirchhoff migration. Kirchhoff Migration A conventional full wave Kirchhoff migration forms a seismic...

Santos Vision: Innovative Seismic Data Processing in a Super Giant Oil Basin

Hermann Lebit, Sriram Arasanipalai, Jeff Tilton, Pascal Ollagnon, PGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

... represents the largest Reverse Time Migration (RTM) and Kirchhoff prestack depth migration (KPSDM) successfully completed by the industry. Extension...

Abstract: Wide Azimuth Interpolation; #90211 (2015)

Daniel Trad, Jeff Deere, and Scott Cheadle

Search and Discovery.com

... the new traces) is critical. To precondition the data properly for Kirchhoff migration, we desire full, uniform coverage of offsets and azimuths...

Leveraging Reflection, Refraction, and Multiple Arrivals from Dual-Sensor Streamer Data for High-Fidelity Velocity Model Building and Imaging

G. Rønholt, J.E. Lie, Ø. Korsmo, B. Danielsen, S. Brown, S. Brandsberg-Dahl, A.V. Mavilio, N. Chemingui, D. Whitmore, M. Farouki

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... inversion (FWI) and separated wavefield imaging (SWIM) for prestack depth migration (PSDM) velocity model building and imaging. The data under...

5D Interpolation Using Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) Algorithm to Recover and Reconstruct Damaged Seismic Data, a Case Study in Jb Field, North West Java Basin

Andreas Wasi Kuncoro Kaissagara, Aji Rahmat Ginanjar, Arrie Kurniawan, Dimas Pramudito

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...ent prior to migration sequence. After quality check, the reconstructed data is used as inputs for Pre-Stack Migration using Kirchhoff algorithm. Stac...

Abstract: Improving Reservoir Imaging with Time-Lag Fwi in the Partitioned Zone Between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia; #91204 (2023)

Art Petrenko, Trevor Coulman, Guangfu Shao, Ibrahim Hakam, Mohammed Almutairi, Sujoy Ghose, Kai Zhang

Search and Discovery.com

.... Kirchhoff migration was used to generate high-resolution gathers and stack with the 24 Hz TLFWI model. Due to the complex overburden velocity...

Jumpstarting Hydrocarbon Exploration and Development in the Philippines

Rene Villafuerte, Jun Wang, Yitao Chen, Peter Chia

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... in complex geological conditions. In contrast to conventional Kirchhoff Prestack Depth Migration (K-PSDM) which struggles with lateral velocity contrasts...

Abstract: Fluvial Stratigraphic and Reservoir Architectures Using Outcrop Analogs in the Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation, Southern Utah: Revised Depositional Models and Synthetic Seismic Modeling, by Cari Johnson, Jared Gooley, and Ernesto Sandoval; #90124 (2011)

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Exploring the “undeformed� Bengal Fan and what lies below in the deepwater Rakhine Basin

Search and Discovery.com

High-Resolution Model Building in a Full-Azimuth Nodal Survey in the GOM

Sandip Chattopadhyay, Gary Rodriguez, Tefera Eshete, Guy Hilburn, TGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... An isotropic Kirchhoff prestack depth migration was run using the resulting VZ model. Since the model Initial Anisotropic Model Building matched...

Seismic Imaging through Outcropping Carbonates: An Example from the Canadian Rocky Mountains, , #41533 (2015).

Yong Hua, Don C. Lawton

Search and Discovery.com

... the missing traces on the single common-offset gather before PSTM. Pre-stack Kirchhoff time migration was conducted on the common-offset domain by using...

Mitigation of the 3D Cross-Line Acquisition Footprint Using Separated Wavefield Imaging of Dual-Sensor Streamer Seismic Data … A First Example from Malaysia

Mazin Farouki, Andrew Long, Richard Jones, Yee Ah Chim, Magdalene Tang, Hui LeGleut, Shaoping Lu, Dan Whitmore, Adam Betteridge

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... only and the illumination of surface multiples only. A final Kirchhoff pre-stack time migration (PSTM) volume was already available, so the depth imaged...

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)

... technique is, in essence, a Kirchhoff migration (oftentimes called beam steering, source imaging, seismic emission tomography, etc.; see e.g. Maxwell...

Efficient Migration, #40816 (2011)

Yazil Abbas,

Search and Discovery.com

... (in various forms) – a huge capital investment. Migration run times are typically 2000-9000 msec/trace. A 3D Kirchhoff PSTM for 1000 sq kms could take...

High-resolution imaging using least-squares migration in the image domain (LSMi) for a marine distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) 3D-VSP

Ali Sayed, Francesca Twynam, Ran Bachrach, Maud Cavalca, Leo Leon, Maria Shadrina, Qingsong Li, Reetam Biswas, Daniel Tebo, Sam Buist

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... (RTM) and Kirchhoff depth migration (KDM) kernels were used to generate complimentary images. A pre-stack Qamplitude compensation technique...

Reveal The Velocity Anomalies in Complex Overburden and Enhanced The Imaging through Shallow Gas: A Case Study in SisiNubi Mahakam, Indonesia

Annas Astuti, Yohanes Kristomo, Bee Jik Lim, Ginanjar Satria, Natalia Anggriani

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and reimaging the existing legacy data with Q prestack Kirchhoff depth migration performed in 2011 and 2014 did not accurately model the sharp velocity...

Abstract: 3D Localized Prestack Depth Migration from Workstations, by Xiaomin Zhao, Jianming Sheng, Ying Hu, and Chengbin Peng; #90105 (2010)

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Seismic Foldout: The Most Advanced Datasets Offshore Barbados and T&T

Jeniffer Masi, Jeroen Hoogeveen, Nick Tanushev, John Walker, Alexander Mihai Popovici, Geoex MCG, Z-Terra

GEO ExPro Magazine

... iterations were conducted using Kirchhoff pre-stack depth migration (PSDM). Kirchhoff Migration and common image gathers: (a) produced using...

Improving seismic resolution by reprocessing multiple surveys at Na Kika field

Qingsong Li, Robert (Bobby) Chrisman, Dale Baptiste, Yan Liu, Dhvanil Patel, Carlos Rivas Aroni

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...://doi.org/10.1190/segam2015-5932503.1. Jin, H., and J. Etgen, 2020, Evaluating Kirchhoff migration using wave-equation generated maximum amplitude...

Imaging and fold comparison of mirror reverse time migration vs. interferometric imaging for VSP data

Liwei Cheng, James Simmons, Ali Tura

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Kirchhoff migration instead of primary P-wave imaging. Sidenko et al. (2021) employ seismic interferometry to extend the subsurface image for monitoring...

The Use of Modern 3D Seismic Data Processing Techniques, 5D Interpolation, and Anisotropic PSTM to Improve Existing 3D Data in South Louisiana Data—Pulling the Scales from our Eyes; New Truth from Existing Datasets

John Asma, John Stevens, Sukhdev Hyare, Dave Spaulding

GCAGS Transactions

... Kirchhoff time migration not only highlighted the situation, but also provided a vehicle to correct for it. Figure 4 shows two pre-stack time migrated...