Extended Abstract: Advances in Interpretation & Imaging

P. Beale

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... as well as vertical position. Imaging quality with PoSDM can be a bit better but at the end of the day there are no extra (prestack) traces to improve...

Seismic Acquisition in the Sub-Andean Belt of Bolivia

Jair R. de S. Soares Filho, Roberto D. Chaves

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

..., essential for further steps in processing, like prestack depth migration, and other refinements that are in course now, with encouraging intermediate...

New geological insights gained from the reprocessing, imaging, and interpretation of legacy seismic datasetsOffshore Mauritania

Kranthi Garidepalli, Elisabeth Gillbard, Simon Dean, Darren Judd, Nassim Kettouche, Paul Bellingham

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... This was achieved by first focusing attention on effectively attenuating noise on the prestack gathers and then addressing the source and receiver side...

The East Shetland Platform

Stefano Patruno, Christine Roche, PGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... This confirms that GeoStreamer dualsensor broadband acquisition and processing enables geoscientists to derive reliable prestack information (acoustic...

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

... velocity grid, that was estimated by global tomography was input into both the pre-stack time migration (PSTM) and the prestack depth migration (PSDM...

A case study of TORT migration imaging of strike-slip faults in Mahu area, Junggar Basin

Hanqing Huang, Daoshan Li, Wei Chai, Hongdan Gu, Yongchang Lv, Yong Wang, Lijuan Huang, WenShan Luo

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... was observed on the OVT CIP gathers with TTI prestack depth migration imaging. In this paper, based on the wide azimuth seismic data, the application of multi...

Seismic Foldout: Revealing a Promising New Play Concept in the Salar Basin, Offshore Canada

Yermek Balabekov, Susana Tierrablanca, Sriram Arasanipalai, Nizar Chemingui, PGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., such as relative impedance and relative density, for prospectivity assessment in a reliable and data-driven approach. INVERSION FOR PRESTACK...

Abstract: An Analysis of the Benefits of 3D Pre-Stack Time Migration (Paper 11)

Peter Whiting

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... and conforms with the application of approximate velocity NMO and simplified velocity DMO. The application of 3D prestack time migration can be thought...

Salt Related Volume Interpretation: An Example of Utilizing Volume Interpretation Software with Challenging Data Quality

Adam M. Seitchik

GCAGS Transactions

..., zooming in and out, and any combination of the above in order to capture maximum information. The prestack depth model building process is a workflow...

Seeing through the Salt

Jerry Kapoor, Nick Moldoveanu, Denes Vigh

GCAGS Transactions

.... Dingwall, 2009, 3D prestack time domain full waveform inversion: European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers 71st Conference and Exhibition...

Widening the Acquisition Time Window with Swell Noise Attenuation Capability (Geophysics Paper 3)

George McKinley, Wayne Zanussi

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... including prestack time and depth migration and 4D processing. A major factor in the noise attenuation processing involved applying CGGVeritas proprietary...

Large-Scale Seismic Acquisition in Congested, Shallow Water Areas: Observations from Modern OBN Data in the Gulf of Mexico

John Smythe, Henrik Roende, Brad Torry, Richard Griffin

GCAGS Transactions

... to support proper application of quantitative interpretation technologies such as amplitude analysis, prestack data analysis (e.g., amplitude variation...

Extended Abstract: Hydrocarbon Traps Associated with Upper Wilcox Canyons and Seismic Response, Mid-Gulf Coast, Texas

Frank G. Cornish, Louis Lambiotte

GCAGS Transactions

.... Numbers are production (4.175/88 = 4.175 BCF/88 MBO). (A) Prestack amplitude with a modified ‘Landmark’ colorbar. Note the high amplitude trough...

Abstract: Seismic Imaging near and within the Basement Offshore Malaysia; Including Comparisons of Imaging Algorithms (Geophysics Paper 19)

Nabil El Kady, M. Shah Sulaiman, Zabidi M Dom, Tang Wai Hoong, Lee Mei Lu, Pavel Vasilyev, Martin Bayly

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

..., this case study demonstrated that careful selection of suitable pre-processing processes, depth - velocity model building, and an appropriate prestack depth...

Abstract: Synergistic Interpretation of Labrador Sea Geophysical Data; #90171 (2013)

Michael Enachescu, Henry Lyatsky, and Allan Feir

Search and Discovery.com

..., with a large area of the basin and the deepwater area remaining unlicensed. Between 2003 and 2008, over 30,000 km of new prestack time migrated seismic 2 D...

AAPG Latin America & Caribbean Region, Optimizing Exploration and Development in Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins.

Search and Discovery.com

ABSTRACT: Champlain: A Subsalt Discovery in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico; #90007 (2002)

Wilson, Louise, Brian Cabote, Douglas Weaver, Bo Cribbs, Arthur Leibold

Search and Discovery.com

... line over Champlain. Note the poor illumination of the subsalt structure. (b) 3D PreStack 4 depth migrated seismic line over Champlain. Note...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Sub-basalt imaging from a wave propagation point of view; #90022 (2002)

Richard Hobbs, Francesca Martini

Search and Discovery.com

..., Application of prestack wave equation datuming to remove interface scattering in sub basalt imaging, First Break, 20, 395-403. Martini, F., Hobbs, R. W...

ABSTRACT: Azimuthally Sectored Attribute Volume Analysis; #90122 (2011)

Amanda Thompson, Jamie Rich, and Mike Ammerman

Search and Discovery.com

... on the far-offset azimuthal variation in travel times was computed. The data was then prestack time-migrated, and four 450-wide azimuthally-sectored...

Why 3D Seismic Missed a Giant Field in the Eastern Venezuela Thrust Belt; Postmortem of a Late Discovery

Search and Discovery.com

... with high velocity shallow thrusts, prestack depth imaging must be used. Geological interpretation and seismic processing should not be considered...

A New Method of Multiple Attenuation: Multiple Identification and Subtraction

Search and Discovery.com

..., if prestack data are requested in interpretation. The model and the results with MIDAS and high resolution Radon transform are shown in Figure 2...

Abstract: Synergistic Interpretation of Labrador Sea Geophysical Data; #90171 (2013)

Michael Enachescu, Henry Lyatsky, and Allan Feir

Search and Discovery.com

..., with a large area of the basin and the deepwater area remaining unlicensed. Between 2003 and 2008, over 30,000 km of new prestack time migrated seismic 2 D...

Abstract: Lithofacies Prediction from Seismic, One Step at a Time: An Example from the McMurray Formation Bitumen Reservoir at Surmont; #90171 (2013)

Matt Hall

Search and Discovery.com

..., P Anno & M Gurch (2008). Imaging oil-sand reservoir heterogeneities using wide-angle prestack seismic inversion. The Leading Edge 27 (9), 1192–1201...

Abstract: Canadas Beaufort-Mackenzie Submarine Foldbelt: Fresh Look at a Frontier Giant Petroleum System with the BeaufortSPANTM 40-Km PSDM Survey; #90171 (2013)

James Helwig, Naresh Kumar, and Menno Dinkelman

Search and Discovery.com

... to image down to the base of the crust with a 9-km long cable, 18-second recording, and final depth processing (Prestack Depth Migration) to 40 km...

Abstract: Tectonic and Stratigraphic Interpretation of a New Regional Deep-seismic Reflection Survey offshore Banks Island: A Potential New Petroleum Province in the Canadian Arctic; #90172 (2014)

Naresh Kumar, James Helwig, Pete Emmet, Menno G. Dinkelman

Search and Discovery.com

... to late Tertiary time would have been favorable for filling the available traps. Figure 3: Prestack Depth (to 12 km) Migrated image of line 5690...