A method for assessing earth model uncertainty in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Edward Lewis, Dennis van der Burg, Tony Martin, Lorenzo Russo, Tony Bell

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... and then reconstructed in migrated space. A 3D residual normal moveout (3DRMO) measures the time shift (dt) to align wavelets with a reference. Finally...

Broad bandwidths reveal double the expected sediment depth in the Northern Carnarvon Basin

Jo Firth, Mark Stanley

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of residual SRME. Radondomain demultiple, based on differential normal moveout of primaries and multiples, was also applied both pre- and post-migration...

Passive Margins: Baltimore Canyon Trough, Mid-Atlantic OCS: Seismic Stratigraphy of Shell/Amoco/Sun Wells

R. N. Erlich, K. P. Maher, G. A. Hummel, D. G. Benson, G. J. Kastritis, H. D. Linder, R. S. Hoar, and D. H. Neeley

AAPG Special Volumes

... to 60-fold and an inside mute was used to remove some of the water-bottom multiple energy. Normal moveout correction was followed by a 60-fold stack...

Deep Sea Stratigraphy: Erosion and Progradation in the Deep Sea--Examples from the Western South Atlantic

L. A. P. Gamboa, P. Ganey, and R. T. Buffler

AAPG Special Volumes

... DISTANCE: 52.93 m (173.65 ft) PROCESSING SEQUENCE 1) Demultiplex to Tempus (Raytheon 32 Bit FP) Format 2) Sort 3) Velocity Analysis 4) Normal...

Abstract: Lamb Waves Recorded in Microseismic Monitoring Wellbores; #90174 (2014)

Andy St-Onge

Search and Discovery.com

... and dispersion with distance combine to make the arrival ‘appear’ to have normal moveout. This may cause an automatic picking program to detect and try...

Reinterpretation of the JŽ Basalt Reflector from Seismic Data Reprocessing Across the Coastal Plain of Southeastern Georgia: Potential Implications for Long-Term CO2 Sequestration, #80174 (2011)

Olusoga Martins Akintunde, Camelia Knapp, James H. Knapp, David M. Heffner, John Shafer

Search and Discovery.com

... Uncorrelated shot gathers Deconvolution Vibroseis Correlation Residual Statics Geometry Normal Moveout Common Mid Point Stack Attenuation of Noisy...

A Breakthrough of Bekapai Converted S-Wave Processing and its Positive Impact to Structural Interpretation

Effendy Siawira, Andy Kristianto, Jaques Bonnafe, Natalia Anggriani, Cepi M. Adam, Zainal Abidin, Firman B. Kurniawan, Supriady, Claudio Strobbia, Yang Liu, Youning Li, Xiagui Miao, Libo Zi, Guishui Wang

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... The field consists of an anticline, compartmentalized by normal faults. The interval of interest consists of a 3 km thick multilayered sediments sequence...

Seismic Expression of the Boundaries of a Miocene Carbonate Platform, Sarawak, Malaysia

Guido L. Bracco Gartner, Wolfgang Schlager, Erwin W. Adams

AAPG Special Volumes

... (e.g., by dip moveout and velocity analysis, normal moveout correction, and Kirchoff migration) and an increase in resolution by zero phasing...

Seismic Evidence for Widespread Possible Gas Hydrate Horizons on Continental Slopes and Rises

Thomas H. Shipley, Mark H. Houston, Richard T. Buffler, F. Jeanne Shaub, Kenneth J. McMillen, John W. Ladd, J. Lamar Worzel

AAPG Bulletin

...). Data were collected with programmed increasing gain with time. Trace-by-trace gain normalization, normal moveout, stacking, filtering, and automatic...

The Contribution of Simple Seismic Modeling for Reef Distribution Mapping

Soetomo J.A., Bambang Santoso

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... by the geometry of the raypath such as vertical for 1D, normal incidence for 2D and non-zero offset for 2D and 3D. The non-zero offset modeling is used to produce...

Developing a robust geologic conceptual model using pseudo 3-D P-wave seismic reflection data

Adrian D. Addison, Michael G. Waddell, Camelia C. Knapp, Duke T. Brantley, John M. Shafer

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... optimal stacking velocities. Because the stratigraphy and structure of the upper 40 m (131 ft) in the study area are fairly simple, a conventional normal...

Rock Physics and Reservoir Characteristic of a Calcitic-Dolomitic Sandstone Reservoir

H. Morris, B. Hardy, E. Efthymiou, T. Kearney

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to geological variations, close inspection of the corresponding partial stack traces shows that it is likely to be due to incorrect NMO corrections locally...

New method for monitoring steam injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and for finding sources of geothermal heat

Gordon Stove, G. Colin Stove, Michael Robinson

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... calculation algorithms (NMO and Ray Tracing) to produce accurate depth information from the dielectric curve fits by accurate parallax measurements...

Enso and Sunspot Cycles in Varved Eocene Oil Shales from Image Analysis

Maurizio Ripepe , Lillian T. Roberts , Alfred G. Fischer

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... (thickness, measured in number of pixels), and continuity (Fig. 3C). For straightening these, we employed a numerical procedure called "Normal move-out" (NMO...

Rock Physics and Reservoir Characterization of a Calcitic-Dolomitic Sandstone Reservoir; #41499 (2014)

H. Morris, E. Efthymiou, B. Hardy, T. Kearney

Search and Discovery.com

... to be due to incorrect NMO corrections locally and frequency variations with offset. Often coarse velocity models provide inaccurate results...

1.5 Crustal Sections: A Wide Angle Seismic Profile

V. J. Hughes, R. S. White, E. J. W. Jones, D. H. Matthews, J. A. Brewer, and D. K. Smythe

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Uninterpreted composite seismic profile, showing conventional normal incidence, increasing offset, and constant offset (at 10 km). End_Page 1.5_10...

Seismic and Geologic Characteristics of Drowning Events on Carbonate Platforms(1)

R. N. ERLICH , S. F. BARRETT , and GUO BAI JU

AAPG Bulletin

... some of the multiple energy. Normal moveout correction was followed by a 60-fold stack, and the data were then filtered with a time variant filter...

Shore normal cross-section, showing grain-size distribution with depth.

Search and Discovery.com

Brazos A-105 D-Sand Reservoir Modeling by Integration of Seismic Elastic Inversion Results with Geostatistical Techniques

W. Xu, K. Wrolstad, D. Kramer, P. Dooley, K. Domingue, D. T. Vo

AAPG Special Volumes

... at each well.An example of a well-log volumetrics and an in-situ log response model with the normal move-out (NMO)corrected prestack elastic gather...

Strategic Development of Technologies for Survival and Growth in the Oil and Gas Industry

Philippe Lacour-Gayet, Kambiz Ali Safinya, Amin Rajeh Amin

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... quality. This includes, for example, the 3-D stack of Normal Move Out (NMO)-corrected data, using velocities from a previous 2-D survey. Figure 2 shows...

Salt Tectonics and its Effect on Sediment Structure and Gas Hydrate Occurrence in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico from 2D Multichannel Seismic Data

Dan'l Lewis, William Sager

GCAGS Journal

... grid of the eastern survey. The processing sequence included spherical divergence correction, exponential gain correction, deconvolution, and normal...

Morphology and Evolution of a Shale-Filled Paleo-Channel in the Wilcox Group (Paleocene-Eocene), Southeast Texas

Peter J. Hutchinson

GCAGS Transactions

.... Normal moveout aqd surface-consistent reflection statics were calculated, applied, and stacked. Frequency and amplitude enhancement were applied...

Evidence of Post-Pleistocene Faults on New Jersey Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf: GEOLOGIC NOTES

R. E. Sheridan , H. J. Knebel

AAPG Bulletin

... true-amplitude recovery, normal-moveout correction, vertical summation of 2 on 1, CDP-gather velocity analysis at every 3-km spacing, time-variant...

Field Technique Design for Seismic Reflection Exploration

L. R. Denham

Dallas Geological Society

... involve more than 30–40% trace stretching in the normal-moveout correction; this corresponds to an offset approximately equal to the depth...

2.2 Basement Involved: 2.2.3 Passive Margins: Representative Multichannel Seismic Profiles Over the U.S. Atlantic Margin

J. A. Grow, D. R. Hutchinson, K. D. Klitgord, W. P. Dillon, and J. S. Schlee US Geological Survey

AAPG Special Volumes

..., 2-to-1 horizontal mix of the 24 far (50 m, or 164 ft) traces after a differential normal moveout correction, time-variant deconvolution, time-variant...