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High-quality and well-positioned seismic data are key requirements of the decision-making process to recover the remaining and bypassed hydrocarbons in mature areas. A great deal of seismic exploration has taken place within the Central North Sea, using a variety of acquisition configurations including the ...

We present how to create realistic geology conformal anisotropic velocity models and reduce depth misties in standard tomographic and high-resolution FWI depth velocity modelling. We assume that localized variations in both velocity and anisotropy are caused by changes in the lithology and we use ...

A conventional CMP based COV binning will create footprint and migration noise for acquisitions where sources and receivers are at different depth levels and/or PS waves are imaged. The OVT muting & weighting technique is a way to overcome this problem. The OVT muting ...

The seismic monitoring solution presented here is a permanently buried, fully automatic, and continuous seismic acquisition and processing system. It ensures remarkably repeatable daily seismic. Our specific calendar oriented 4D processing flow is described and applied on a monitoring system installed for Shell on ...

In marine seismic surveys, seismic interference (SI) remains a considerable problem when marine seismic data sets are acquired in close vicinity of each other. We present a method for attenuating SI noise using a sparse Tau-P transform. Using a synthetic example, we demonstrate that ...

The anelastic effects of the overburden cause seismic amplitude attenuation, wavelet phase distortion and seismic resolution reduction. It is desirable to correct the frequency dependent energy attenuation and phase distortion in a prestack depth migration. The situation becomes more challenging in complex geological regions ...

We present a method for estimating the shape of salt bodies by using ray-based nonlinear slope tomography. The data to invert mainly consist of residual moveout (RMO) observed below salt shapes on migrated common image point gathers. We compute Fréchet derivatives made of traveltime ...

While most marine baseline surveys do not use broadband techniques, increasingly more monitor surveys are being adapted to broadband techniques that often use different receiver-depth profiles (e.g., deeper or variable-depth). A regular matching filter that has been commonly used in 4D time-lapse processing may ...

In the oil rich Bohai area, Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC) acquisition has become the new trend with the benefit of operational flexibility, better illumination, better multiple elimination and better S/N for the targets at middle to deep depth. However, the presence of azimuthal anisotropy ...