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The Messinian interval in the West Nile Delta, offshore Egypt, is a thin evaporite layer characterized by highly irregular velocities with rapid spatial variations. Its complexity poses unique challenges for sub-Messinian reservoir imaging, resulting in erratic gather curvatures, distorted structures, and nonuniform illumination. Conventional ...

The geology of northern Oman presents significant challenges for land velocity model building. We show in this paper that these challenges can be overcome by using an integrated high-resolution velocity model workflow, through the combination of different types of waves, that allow resolving different ...

Inversion has become the standard procedure to quantify elastic properties using seismic. PP seismic is commonly used for this purpose, but in areas where PP seismic is affected by gas pockets or mud volcanoes, the reflectivity can be compromised for reservoir characterization. PP-PS inversion ...

Pure S-wave (SS) seismic data have the potential to bring significant uplift to seismic imaging and reservoir characterization. Combining PP, PS and/or SS data in a joint inversion for seismic reservoir characterization presents some theoretical advantages for the estimation of shear-velocity and density related ...

Land seismic presents more and different challenges for Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) than marine data. Among these challenges, the most fundamental ones are the irregular topography, strong nearsurface effects, and common FWI difficulties such as cycle-skipping and amplitude issues. In this work, we propose to ...

The migrated dip-angle domain provides a powerful opportunity to distinguish 4D noise from signal based on similarity filtering applied to data decomposed by position, frequency, and geological dip. However, 4D signal protection is problematic when the signal itself forms from differences between baseline and ...

Marine seismic surveys in shallow water regions typically suffer from acquisition striping and poor shallow resolution. Multiple imaging has been discussed in the literature for several years as a processing-based approach to this problem. We compare least-squares wave-equation multiple migration (LS-WEMM) results for towed-streamer ...

Existing methods for addressing cycle skipping in full-waveform inversion (FWI) typically involve either a modification of one of the data sets used to compute the least-squares objective function, or a reformulation of the objective function itself, often in terms of a traveltime (or equivalent) ...

With a shallow anhydrite layer, strong multiples and converted wave contamination, Southern Oman represents an outstanding challenge for land velocity model building and imaging. While acoustic land full-waveform inversion (FWI) has proved successful on new broadband datasets in Northern Oman, no successful application has ...