An Interpreter's Guide to Improvements in Depth Imaging Through Model-Based Velocity Estimation and Refinement

Andy Furniss

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... by an interpreter's geological knowledge of an area, have the ability to produce superior velocity models for depth conversion or prestack depth migration...

An Interpreter's Guide to Improvements in Depth Imaging through Model-Based Velocity Estimation and Refinement

Andy Furniss

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...) CMP Gathers Depth Gathers Tomography Final Velocity Model Prestack Depth Migration Depth Section Depth Gathers Fig. 1 - A typical workflow used...

Estimating the Amount of Lateral Movement on Re-Activated Strike-Slip Faults at the Tangguh Gas Fields … Implications for Reservoir Mapping and Structural Compartmentalization.

Christopher Birt, Stephen Dee, Stevy Wospakrik, Muhammad Fitriannur

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... dataset, which was reprocessed with anisotropic prestack depth migration (AKPrDM) in 2015. This survey has been used as the primary source...

Upscaled DFN models to understand the effects of natural fracture properties on fluid flow in the Hunton Group tight Limestone

Benmadi Milad, Sayantan Ghosh, Mohamed Suliman, Roger M. Slatt

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... apertures from the core. In addition, fracture intensities in the seismic volume were assigned based on the three facies identified by prestack inversion...

Stratigraphic Framework, Structural Styles and Seismic Signatures of Downdip Yegua Gas-Condensate Fields, Central Wharton County, Texas Gulf Coast

Thomas E. Ewing , Grant Fergeson

GCAGS Transactions

... is caused by AVO effects. The AVO response is often severely affected by out-of-plane energy. This effect is incurable on strike lines, and requires prestack...

Statistical Analysis of Fractures from the Hydraulic Fracture Test Site 1

Frank Male, Bethany Rysak, Robin Dommisse

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... lithology and fluid prediction from seismic prestack data. Geophysics, 73(3), pp.C13-C21. Campbell, W., Wicker, J., Courtier, J., 2018. Natural...

The Vienna Basin

Gerhard Arzmller, tpn Buchta, Eduard Ralbovsk, Godfrid Wessely

AAPG Special Volumes

... geoscience methods. These include the application of modern sedimentology, neural network technology, prestack depth migration, seismic inversion...

Alpine Evolution and Hydrocarbon Geology of the Pannonian Basin: An Overview

Gbor C. Tari, Frank Horvth

AAPG Special Volumes

... with this pre-Tertiary petroleum system can only be reduced using sophisticated seismic technology (e.g., prestack depth migration of three-dimensional...

Tectonic Evolution of the Outer High of Santos Basin, Southern Sao Paulo Plateau, Brazil, and Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration

Paulo Otavio Gomes, Bill Kilsdonk, Tim Grow, Jon Minken, Roberto Barragan

AAPG Special Volumes

... were used with the kind permission of TGS-Nopec Geophysical Company). PSDM = prestack depth migration. 50 km (31 mi).DISCUSSION: TECTONIC EVOLUTION...

Lower Tertiary Wilcox Play with Prospective Wells, Keathley Canyon, Gulf of Mexico

Jean Pierre Malbrough, Abu Kabir Mostofa Sarwar

GCAGS Transactions

... blocks of Garden Banks (GB 980–983) (Figs. 3 and 4). The prestack depth migrated data from PGS Marine Geophysical was shot in an east-west direction with 4...

Basin Modeling of the Upper Jurassic Petroleum Systems (Tithonian and Oxfordian) in the Akalan-Chilam Area of the Campeche Sound in the Southern Gulf of Mexico

Salvador Ortuno Arzate, Cuauhtemoc Romero Moguel, Marcelino Moreno Lopez, Marco Flores Flores

AAPG Special Volumes

.... del Valle, and R. P. Gomez, 1996, Mapping salt structure and subsalt imaging in Campeche Bay Mexico, using seismic inversion modeling and prestack...

Seismic Interpretation of a Reservoir System Near the Northern Boundary of the South Caspian Basin

Firuz A. Salamov

AAPG Special Volumes

... reprocessing with anisotropic prestack depth migration to better image potential stratigraphic traps in the flanks of structures. In addition, a new...

Uncertainty Analysis in a Mature Field: Dibi Field Case Study

Djuro Novakovic, Joy Roth

AAPG Special Volumes

... well targeting 700 million stock tank barrels of original oil in place.DataThe field is covered by a prestack time-migrated 3-D seismic survey...

Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Barnett Shale and Ellenburger Unconformity Southwest of the Core Area of the Newark East Field, Fort Worth Basin, Texas

Elizabeth T. Baruch, Roger M. Slatt, Kurt J. Marfurt

AAPG Special Volumes

... Worth Basin, southwest of the core area of the Newark East field (Figure 1). Available seismic consisted of a prestack time-migrated three-dimensional...

Advanced Seismic-stratigraphic Imaging of Depositional Elements in a Lower Cretaceous (Mannville) Heavy Oil Reservoir, West-central Saskatchewan, Canada

Sabrina E. Sarzalejo Silva, Bruce S. Hart

AAPG Special Volumes

... was to be based on poststack attributes, instead of prestack attributes derived from amplitude-variation-with-offset analyses, we focused on the acoustic...

AAPG International Conference and Exhibition September 12-15, 1999, Birmingham, England, - Abstracts, #90923 (1999).

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Prediction of subseismic faults and fractures: Integration of three-dimensional seismic data, three-dimensional retrodeformation, and well data on an example of deformation around an inverted fault

Tina Lohr, Charlotte M. Krawczyk, David C. Tanner, Ramin Samiee, Heike Endres, Peter O. Thierer, Onno Oncken, Henning Trappe, Raik Bachmann, Peter A. Kukla

AAPG Bulletin

... AND RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATIONWe analyzed a prestack, depth-migrated 3-D reflection seismic data set provided by RWE Dea AG. The line spacing of the seismic...

Effect of Zechstein Supergroup (Z1 cycle) Werrahalit pods on prospectivity in the southern North Sea

John R. Underhill, Kirsten L. Hunter

AAPG Bulletin

... of gas prospects in the area, both through seismic processing, especially prestack depth migration and in depth conversion. For example, the presence...

Overpressure and mudrock compaction in the Lower Kutai Basin, Indonesia: A radical reappraisal

Agus M. Ramdhan, Neil R. Goulty

AAPG Bulletin

...., 2002, Deep-water geohazard prediction using prestack inversion of large offset P-wave data and rock model: The Leading Edge, v. 21, p. 193198, doi...

Restorations of faulted domes

Mohammed M. Al-Fahmi, Andreas Plesch, John H. Shaw, and John C. Cole

AAPG Bulletin

... well logs that are tied to the 3-D seismic reflection data. The seismic data were processed (prestack time migration with post-stack enhancement...

Pitfalls in three-dimensional seismic interpretation: Footprints of an irregular source–receiver layout

Priyank Jaiswal, Robert Holman, and Michael Grammer

AAPG Bulletin

... model, and renew the source parameters. Third, determine the fold for each bin on the survey, and discard data at prestack stage to avoid nongeological...

Combining seismic reservoir characterization workflows with basin modeling in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico Mississippi Canyon area

Wisam H. AlKawai, Tapan Mukerji, Allegra Hosford Scheirer, and Stephan A. Graham

AAPG Bulletin

... approach to subsalt prestack depth imaging: An example from the Atwater foldbelt, deep-water of GOM: SEG 77th Annual International Meeting Expanded...

Analysis of fault damage zones using three-dimensional seismic coherence in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

Zonghu Liao, Hui Liu, Brett M. Carpenter, Kurt J. Marfurt, and Ze’ev Reches

AAPG Bulletin

... narrow azimuth surveys that were reprocessed and prestack time migrated using a single datum and the same bin size (33.5 by 33.5 m [110 by 110 ft...

Structural geometry and evolution of the Carter-Knox structure, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

Molly Turko and Shankar Mitra

AAPG Bulletin

... was conducted by integrating a 3-D seismic volume through the structure with well-log and dipmeter data (Figure 4). The seismic data consist of prestack time...

Influence of structure on Mississippian paleotopography and distribution of Middle Pennsylvanian sandstone reservoirs on the Cherokee platform, northern Oklahoma

Kevin J. Toth and James O. Puckette

AAPG Bulletin

... was applied to sonic data similar to the frequency in the seismic field data. Time horizons correlated from 3-D prestack time migration were used...