Abstract: New Seismic Technology in Acquisition & Processing Re-Opens Areas for Pre-Tertiary Exploration in Eastern Indonesia

Andrew Cochran

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... normal moveout (NMO) and subsequently muted before stacking. The ability to use a full Kirchhoff algorithm in pre-stack time migration (PrSTM), or UTMOST...

Abstract: Fractures Detection Using Multi-Azimuth Diffractions Focusing Measure: A Feasibility Study from the Arab D Reservoir, by Abdulfattah A. Aldajani and Sergey Fomel; #90105 (2010)

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Lithology Prediction by Extrapolating Well Data

Brian Barley, Dean Chergotis, Mai Wilson, Susan Young

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of the Normal Moveout corrected Common Depth Point gather are extrapolated to their zero offset value, removing the effect on the stack of a strong AVO...

Chapter Five: Reservoir Identification

Alistair R. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

... without normal moveout correction is a cylindrical hyperbola as shown. By tracking this horizon and displaying the resultant amplitudes as if it were...

Multichannel Seismic Survey of the Colombia Basin and Adjacent Margins: Convergent Margins; Field Investigations of Margin Structure and Stratigraphy

Richard S. Lu, Kenneth J. McMillen

AAPG Special Volumes

... Geophysical software. The normal processing sequence consisted of: (1) static correction and bad-shot editing, (2) sorting, (3) velocity analysis...

Application of finite difference eikonal solver for traveltime computation in forward modeling and migration

Amir Mustaqim Majdi, Seyed Yaser Moussavi Alashloo, Nik Nur Anis Amalina Nik Mohd Hassan, Abdul Rahim Md Arshad, Abdul Halim Abdul Latiff

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... derive velocity model from the recorded traveltimes. Results from normal moveout (NMO) velocity analysis can be useful when we are dealing with simple...

Techniques of the Thumper in the Val Verde Basin

Weiman H. Reese

West Texas Geological Society

... playback analyzer used to correct field magnetic tape for static and dynamic (normal moveout) variations. This machine composites and photographs drop...

Abstract: A Comparison of Standard Migration with EOM for Hussar Data; #90174 (2014)

Thais A. Guirigay, John C. Bancroft, and J. Helen Isaac

Search and Discovery.com

... is the application of a simplified Kirchhoff migration on the CSP, that consists of scaling, filtering, normal moveout (NMO) and stacking. CSP gathers...

2-D Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Bennett Thrust Fault in the Indio Mountains of West Texas; #30519 (2017)

Alan Vennemann, Marianne Karplus, Galen Kaip, Steve Harder

Search and Discovery.com

... Analysis 4. Velocity Analysis 5. Normal Moveout Corrections (NMO) 6. Create Database Files 7. Dip Moveout Corrections (DMO) 8. PostStack Signal...

Seismic applications of the Radon transform and a new second-order traveltime local transform

Ehsan Soleymani, Mauricio Sacchi

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... t = τ + px2 . The parabolic approximation is used to model the traveltime of reflections after normal moveout correction (Yilmaz, 2001). Hence...

Characterization of seismic anomalies in Youngil Bay, Pohang, and its geological implication

Min Je Lee, Yongchae Cho

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... according to common depth gather and line. Normal moveout correction is applied to compensate the arrival delay of the reflection resulting from...

Chapter Ten-part 2: Depth Conversion

Leslie R. Denham, Dave K. Agarwal

AAPG Special Volumes

... survey does, and usually more accurately. Seismic data themselves provide velocity information through measurement of normal moveout (NMO). If a seismic...

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...

Regional Sedimentation Patterns Along the Northern Melanesian Borderland

Thomas M. Brocher, Sugiarta Wirasantosa, Fritz Theyer, Chris Mato

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... usually not recorded, normal moveout analysis of the sub-critical reflections was used to estimate sediment velocities (Dix, 1955). An example of the normal...

Developing an Exploration Tool in a Mature Trend: A 3D AVO Case Study in South Texas

Mark E. Gregg, Charles T. Bukowski, Jr.

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... are shown in Figure 4 with both normal and non-hyperbolic moveout applied. The difference in AVO character between the gas and wet sands is obvious...

An Overview of Reservoir Seismic Stratigraphy, Frontmatter

Tom Wittick

North Texas Geological Society

... Recovery 3-3 Wavelet Processing 3-5 Statics 3-10 Normal Moveout or NMO 3-11 Spectral Balancing 3-11 Migration 3-12 Chapter 4 Synthetic...

Extending the Resolution of Seismic Reflection Exploration

L. R. Denham

Pacific Section of AAPG

... than 15% trace stretching in the normal-moveout correction; this corresponds to an offset approximately equal to the depth of a reflection...

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...

THE APPLICATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMOLOGY TO THE DELINEATION OF FAULTING AND COAL SEAM THICKNESS: A CONTINUING CASE HISTORY

Anthony R. Wagner

North Dakota Geological Society

... the corrections which was followed by a normal moveout correction which adjusted each component trace of the CDP Gather so that identical...

Land 3D Acquisition Techniques Related to S.E. Asian Situation

Walter Ritchie

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... azimuths being contained within a common subsurface point and, hence, it is necessary to apply velocities for normal moveout corrections uniquely to each...

Exploration of the North Seribu Area, Northwest Java Sea

Roberto Fainstein

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... events. Multiple attenuation was achieved by two methods. With the first method, CDP gathers were normal moveout corrected by using multiple...

Seismic Lithology (AVO) Interpretation at the Badak and Nilam Fields in the Sanga Sanga Block, Kalimantan

William C. Ade, Ian T. McMahon, Wahyudin Suwarlan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the data is considered as a set of "N" lines where each line is a common offset gather, "N" being the fold. The data had normal-moveout and statics...

Structural Interpretation of the Table Rock Area 3-D Survey, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Cynthia B. Russell, Donald S. Stone

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... was performed after the second pass of surface-consistent residual statics. After the data were corrected for normal moveout (NMO) and the statics were...

Seismic Time to Depth Conversion and Uncertainty Analysis for Horizon Prediction in a Proposed Well-Site of Sungai Gelam Field, Jambi Subbasin

Muhamad Wildan P., Imam Muda Gunawan, Andry Pujiriyanto, Sudarmaji

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... usually only involves the stacking velocity derived from the NMO (normal moveout), whereas the velocity data is not obtained from measurements (hard data...

The Internal Framework of the Southwestern Florida Bank

F. Jeanne Shaub

GCAGS Transactions

... through Common-Depth-Point ordering, velocity analysis, normal-moveout correction, stack, deconvolution and mix with final filtering and scaling...