The Wave Equation Applied to Migration

D. Loewenthal, L. Lu, R. Roberson, J. Sherwood

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

...The Wave Equation Applied to Migration D. Loewenthal, L. Lu, R. Roberson, J. Sherwood 1978 72 80 Claerbout’s method has been implemented...

Seismic simulations of experimental strata

Lincoln Pratson, Wences Gouveia

AAPG Bulletin

...-wave equation algorithm, which we use to produce a synthetic version of prestack, unmigrated, multichannel seismic data. Data generated by the latter...

Low-frequency signal-guided seismic amplitude preservation optimization and its application in Paleogene reservoir prestack inversion

Xie Xiang, Zhang Zhongqiao, Qiao Zhu, Wang Jinghan

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... are density and P wave velocity of strata respectively. Equation (2) demonstrates that the amplitude attenuation coefficient of seismic wave has...

Study on fluid discrimination method based on prestack frequency-dispersion characteristics

Lien Bian, Jun Ming, Yuxiu Wang, Qian Yu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) and fluid identification. Method Forward modeling of viscoelastic wave equation The target of this study is a heavy reservoir, and the viscoelastic...

Aspects of Rock Physics From Laboratory and Log Data that are Important to Seismic Interpretation: Section 1. Fundamentals of Stratigraphic Interpretation of Seismic Data

A. R. Gregory

AAPG Special Volumes

... decrement, s: [EQUATION (5)] Click to view image in JPEG format. Fig. 17. [Grey Scale] Measurement of P-wave pulse travel time through sample...

Mechanical Equilibrium in Sequence Stratigraphy, by S. Naofumi and M. Yosinori; #90986 (1994).

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Equivalent reflection coefficient and AVO characteristics of the thin bed

Zhengyang Kuai, Danping Cao, Chao Jin

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... in equation 1 is a 2  2 matrix consisting of PP, PS, SP, SS wave coefficients. For example, the R12 D 12  rpp equals  12  rsp  12 rps  where each...

Abstract: Lab and numerical experiments of how cracks influence the nonlinear interactions of P- and S-waves

Meghdad Darijani, Mandy Sin Huay Lim, Herurisa Rusmanugroho, Alison Malcolm

Atlantic Geology

...-amplitude low frequency S-waves. In addition, we study the nonlinear wave equation numerically to develop a better understanding of the elastic wave...

Depth Migration of Seismic Data: ABSTRACT

John Sherwood, Philip Schultz, Jin Lin, David Judson

AAPG Bulletin

.... In such situations the basic migration procedure should use the provided velocity information and obey the wave equation with adequate accuracy...

Wavefield Extrapolation for Prestack Time Migration with RMS Velocity: Part II … Data Examples

Dan Negut

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... illumination and as an alternative to Kirchhoff summation prestack time migration a Wave Equation Summation prestack time migration algorithm was developed...

Abstract: Reverse Time Adjoint and Reverse Time Inverse Migration, by H. Liu andY. Luo, #90188 (2014)

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Wavefield Extrapolation for Prestack Time Migration with RMS Velocity: Part II … Data Examples

Dan Negut

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... illumination and as an alternative to Kirchhoff summation prestack time migration a Wave Equation Summation prestack time migration algorithm was developed...

A New Approach to Seismic Interpretation in Challenging Imaging Environments, by C. Edward Helsing and David C. Berman; #90052 (2006)

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The Impact of Wave-Induced Longshore Transport On A Delta–Shoreface System

Liang Li, Dirk-Jan R. Walstra, Joep E. A. Storms

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...The Impact of Wave-Induced Longshore Transport On A Delta–Shoreface System Liang Li, Dirk-Jan R. Walstra, Joep E. A. Storms 2015 6 20 Vol. 85 (2015...

Finite-frequency transmission traveltime tomography in VTI media

Fei Luo, Lanlan Yan, Jiexiong Cai

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... wave equation often assumes that the shear wave velocity is 0. When this happens, the wave field propagation will be unstable. Based on this, this paper...

Frequency-domain GFDM with optimal coefficient for undulating interface

Zongfeng Jia, Guochen Wu, Bo Zhang, Hongying Liu, Sen Yang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of the frequencydomain acoustic wave equation. S    m0u0   mi ui  S    i 1   0 (10) c0u0   ci ui    S   v2  i 1    n0u0   ni ui  i 1   2...

Elastic reverse time migration with more than pressure data

Denes Vigh, James Xu, Xin Cheng, Zongcai Feng, Bing Bai

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... Following Kamath and Tsvankin (2016), the general elastic wave equation for heterogeneous arbitrary anisotropic media can be expressed as: 𝜌 𝜕2...

Computer Simulation Models of a Hooked Beach Shoreline Configuration

C. Cary Rea , Paul D. Komar

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...) t=d·yi·x (2) where t is an increment of time (days) and d is the depth limit of wave erosion in the nearshore zone (Fig. 3). From equation (2) we have...

AVO Analysis of Long Offset Seismic Data Using 3-D Graphical Analysis, by F. Zhu and R. L. Gibson; #90901 (2001)

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Abstract: Locating the Base of Salt at the K-2 Field, Green Canyon Block 562, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

John O’Brien, Arnold Rodriguez, David Sixta, Mark Davies, and Phillip Houghton

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... independent, complementary geophysical techniques: full tensor gravity gradiometry (FTG) and wave equation prestack depth migration. FTG measures...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Applications of Wave Imaging Technologies to Improve Deep Gulf Prospecting

Morgan P. Brown, Joseph H. Higginbotham, Cosmin Macesanu, Oscar E. Ramirez

GCAGS Transactions

... in the Gulf Coast. When the velocity complexity is severe, such as under Gulf of Mexico salt, Wave Equation PSDM (WEM) algorithms generally produce...

Abstract: 3D–3С Full-Wave Modeling in Anisotropic 2.5D Medium; #90171 (2013)

A. Kostyukevych, N. Marmalevskyi, Y. Roganov, and V. Tulchinsky

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... Annual Meeting, Expanded Abstracts, 2275-2279. Novias, A. and Santos J., 2005, 2.5D finite-difference solution of the acoustic wave equation...

Abstracts: S-wave Attenuation within the Weathering Layer of an Alberta Heavy Oil Field; #90173 (2015)

Kristof De Meersman

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...Abstracts: S-wave Attenuation within the Weathering Layer of an Alberta Heavy Oil Field; #90173 (2015) Kristof De Meersman AAPG Search and Discovery...

Abstract: 3D, Anisotropic Phase Shift Operators; #90171 (2013)

Robert J. Ferguson and Gary F. Margrave

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... model space. From the scalar wave-equation, p1, p 2,   =p1  p ip2  jp3 k define a plane wave in  k define the orthogonal coordinate system...

Abstract: 3D, Anisotropic Phase Shift Operators; #90171 (2013)

Robert J. Ferguson and Gary F. Margrave

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... model space. From the scalar wave-equation, p1, p 2,   =p1  p ip2  jp3 k define a plane wave in  k define the orthogonal coordinate system...