Technical Content

We present a 4D pre-salt reservoir monitoring study from two wide-azimuth towed-streamer (WATS) surveys. Advanced flows were implemented to mitigate complex salt-related challenges and WATS repeatability issues in the image domain. Three models of converted waves interfering at reservoir level were generated via dual ...

Deriving an accurate high-resolution seismic quality factor (Q) model is necessary to both compensate for the phase dispersion and amplitude attenuation effects of the Earth’s anelasticity during imaging, and to reduce parameter cross-talk during velocity model building (VMB). Various methods exist for deriving Q ...

The merits of Total and Effective porosity approaches have always been a source of discussion within the Petrophysical community globally. In general, an operating company adopts a single approach (Total or Effective) in their modelling workflows and ignores the alternative method. This is normally ...

In recent years, the Brazilian presalt characterization has been a challenging task, either because of the imaging problems associated with complex salt layer geometry (Penna et al., 2019) or due to large heterogeneity in the presalt carbonates reservoir (Oliveira et al., 2018). Some efforts ...

Short period multiple prediction for land data is challenging due to poor imaging of the shallow multiple generators as well little information about the down-going reflection at the weathering layer. Based on multiple imaging of the shallow section, surface-related wave-equation deconvolution has been used ...

We discuss challenges of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) data in a Vertical Seismic Profile (VSP) setting and propose processing and imaging solutions to overcome these. The context is to review processing challenges and benefits of DAS VSP as a potential cost-effective solution for CO2 ...

For subsurface commercial ventures or environmental projects that rely on maps of faulted horizons, accurate maps are fundamental. Fault topology provides an ideal tool for analysis of connectivity of fault systems. The data required to undertake the analysis is straightforward to extract from fault ...

Ocean Bottom Node acquisition is known to improve seismic velocity model building and imaging, especially for deep and complex targets. Due to cost considerations, OBN surveys are typically only acquired around the production field, using a relatively dense receiver grid. At the exploration phase ...

Offshore Cameroon is a proven petroleum province with commercial production from the Douala Kribi-Campo Basin (DKC) and the prolific Rio del Rey Basin (RDR). The recent joint cooperation agreement between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea will lead to the development of the Yoyo and Yolanda ...