SEISMIC REFLECTION SURVEYING FOR OIL AND GAS FIELDS IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

TED COUGHRAN

Fort Worth Geological Society

... point stacking sequence. The 7-fold gather in the center has been moveout corrected, fine-tune static corrected, and filtered. All seven traces were...

Diving wave tomography: Velocity modelling using first arrival traveltime

Amatul Syafi Abdul Basit, Abdul Rahim Md Arshad, Arulini Permalu

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... but not limited to the iterative-based tomography, normal moveout (NMO), static correction, migration and seismic-well-tie (Yilmaz, 2001). In upstream drilling...

Assessment of a Marcellus Shale Prospect Using Seismic, Microseismic, and Completions Data

Scott Singleton, Mark Suda

GCAGS Transactions

... mutes so that we can use the maximum offsets possible for AVO inversion. This commonly requires the use of spectral balancing to remove normal moveout...

Middle and Upper Jurassic Depositional Environments at Outer Shelf and Slope of Baltimore Canyon Trough

L. A. Gamboa , M. Truchan , P. L. Stoffa

AAPG Bulletin

... CDP 2388-2832 was checked by displaying normal moveout-corrected CDP gathers. This interactive procedure also gave us the opportunity to apply minor...

From raw seismic data to quantitative interpretation via cloud-based FWI

Henry A. Debens

Australian Energy Producers Journal

...) it consists of iterated rounds of shortoffset least-squares FWI to build reflectivity and deep macro-model updates to match reflection moveout; (2...

The Geophysicist Communicating with Seismic Processing

R. E. Sheriff

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... the effect of the EXPGAIN previously applied; /NMO applies normal moveout, and certain files (FILES) are plotted so that we can see how appropriate...

Velocity model building with a time shift objective function: Gulf of Mexico examples

Yi Yang, Ken Matson, Tadas Krupovnickas, Mark Huiskes, Rene-Edouard Plessix, Sijmen Gerritsen

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...ic propagator was used, and we only inverted for normal moveout compressional wave velocity. For a fast turnaround time, we started the first rou...

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow in Seismic Exploration

Emil J. Mateker, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

.... This addition, called stacking, requires knowledge of a form of velocity (the rms or stacking velocity) which can be obtained from the time moveout...

Research of high-precision depth interpretation method for low-amplitude offshore reservoir and its application in C oilfield, Bohai Bay Basin

Wenbin Li, Jianli Wang, Zhenglong Zhang, Heng Zhang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... application in C oilfield, Bohai Bay Basin get more accurate velocity of development wells in the vertical direction by acoustic moveout correction...

Advances in Depth Imaging Technology: Rock Physics Guided Migration of Seismic Data in 3D

Nader C. Dutta, Sherman Yang, Jianchun Dai

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...  Vnmo 1  2 (4) Here, Vh is the horizontal velocity, V0 is the vertical velocity and Vnmo is the surface seismic normal moveout velocity. Further...

Using Multiazimuth Seismic Data for Anisotropy Estimation in an Unconventional Reservoir

Surabhi Mishra

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... and Lattice Energy Ltd. for permission to publish and present this work. REFERENCES Grechka, V., and I. Tsvankin, 1998, 3-D description of normal moveout...

Geophysical in-situ stress prediction method based on ADS method

Min Zhang, Xia Wang, Ya Shen, Jinrong Yang, Yintao Cai, Liping Qian, Feng Li, Jianhua Li

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... description of normal moveout in anisotropic inhomogeneous media: Geophysics, 63, 1079–1092, doi: https://doi.org/10.1190/1.1444386. Lianhui, Z., S. Yuming...

Assessing mineral composition and permeability of a shale seal

Roman Beloborodov, Marina Pervukhina, Maxim Lebedev, Juerg Hauser

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... suppression of noise and multiples, correction for attenuation, pre-stack Kirchhoff time migration and moveout correction. The goal...

Performance of elastic FWI for different wrapping angles of helical fiber in seafloor-deployed DAS

Shogo Masaya, Masanori Tani

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of α = 15, 30, 45, 60, and 75 degrees. (b) True S-wave velocity (c) True P-wave velocity in isotropy plane (d) True P-wave normal-moveout velocity (e...

3D Radon transformation with axis dependent curvature

Faruq Akbar, Warren Ho, Sebastian Holland, Rodrigo Fuck

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and hyperbolic methods have proven to be very useful for normal moveout-corrected data where only flat and curved events are present. Linear Radon is useful...

Improved subsalt imaging in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea with converted wave attenuation

Monica Hartmann, Jana Caskey, Benjamin Cole, James McLeman, Tom Rayment, Ares Ouzounis

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... in the shot domain with an additional joint match in the common midpoint (CMP) domain with normal moveout applied to flatten and help preserve...

Extending the Southwest Limits of Jonah Field: Using High-quality, 3-D Seismic Data to Improve the Structural Definition

S. G. Siguaw, D. C. Friend

AAPG Special Volumes

..., along with an interpreted deep-seated parallel normal fault located southwest of the Pinedale thrust. The west-bounding fault zone and the south...

Gas Hydrate Geohazard Assessment in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Using a Vertical Line Array, by Erika Géresi, N.R. Chapman, T.M. McGee, and J.R. Woolsey, Article #40159 (2005)

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Comparing Seismic Resolution and Signal and Noise Quality between Dense Point-Receiver and Conventional Data, Bakken Formation, North Dakota; #41160 (2013)

Niranjan Banik, Antoun Salama, Adam Koesoemadinata, George El-Kaseeh, Mark Egan, and Alfonso Gonzalez

Search and Discovery.com

... modern processing methods. Two important factors for resolution in conventional system are intra-array statics and intra-array moveout. Egan et al...

3-D Geomechanical Modeling for Field Development of a Colombian Shale Play

Leonardo Arias Medina, Azra N. Tutuncu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... amplitudes and corrected by normal moveout (NMO). The methodology involves the loading of the input information, conversion of the offset domain...

Velocity for Pore Pressure Prediction Modeling and Risk Assessment

Selim Simon Shaker

GCAGS Transactions

... property that can be used for pore pressure prediction. The normal moveout and Rms velocities can be used for a quick look and regional assessment...

7.0 The Structural Significance of Seismic Velocity - A Progress Report

P. E. Gretener

AAPG Special Volumes

... of CDP SHOOTING demanding large offsets as a matter of routine. It has thus become possible to determine seismic velocity using normal moveout (NMO...

Stratigraphic and Seismic Evidence for Late Cretaceous Growth Faulting, Denver Basin, Colorado: Section 2. Application of Seismic Reflection Configuration to Stratigraphic Interpretation

Robert J. Weimer , T. L. Davis

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the application of static and normal moveout corrections through careful control of the seismic velocities, filtering to remove groundroll and highline...

Three-Dimensional Seismic Analysis in the Characterization of a Giant Carbonate Field, Onshore Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Peter Melville, Omar Al Jeelani, Saeed Al Menhali, Jürgen Grötsch

AAPG Special Volumes

.... This results in seismic data that have events with a train of multiples generated at several levels, with little moveout discrimination.Four versions...

A New Approach to Pore Pressure Predictions: Generation, Expulsion, and Retention Trio—Case Histories from the Gulf of Mexico

Selim Simon Shaker

GCAGS Transactions

... petrophysical property that can be used to predict the depth to the previously-mentioned four zones. The normal moveout and RMS velocities can be used...