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Ocean bottom node (OBN) data by nature have a broader bandwidth; however, the presence of source-side ghosts can reduce the useful frequency range and therefore damage seismic resolution. We demonstrate the benefits of 3D deghosting for OBN data from the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) ...

Over recent years, many authors have proposed to compensate the absorption loss effects inside of the imaging process through the use of an attenuation model. This is more particularly necessary in the presence of strong attenuations anomalies. Q tomography has been developed for estimating ...

We have developed a method to jointly depth invert frequency and time domain Airborne EM data in complex topographic and geologic environments, in 2.5D and 3D. Inversion of synthetic and field data show that using AEM data sets with complimentary information (geo-steering) increases the ...

Marine seismic acquisitions record both primary and multiple wavefields. In a typical processing sequence, multiple energy is removed from the data before migration. However, there may be valuable information contained in the multiple wavefield. To discover this hidden information, reverse time migration of multiples ...

Successful development of known fields requires high-quality seismic data in order to accurately delineate the reservoir through processes such as seismic inversion and reservoir characterization studies. In the new oil price regime this has become even more important as oil companies try to keep ...

Commonly fitted by an ellipse, AVOAz is actually better approximated using limaçons. The article begins by reviewing the properties of the original limaçon, then explains how they can apply to AVOAz and finally illustrates how limaçons can help with the interpretation of anisotropy on ...

In 4D seismic, the velocity model used for imaging and reservoir characterization can change over calendar time as the reservoir is produced. This is particularly true for heavy-oil reservoir produced by steam simulation (EOR). We propose an automatic 4D update of the 3D velocity ...

The oil-bearing fractured granite basement rocks are a very important and complicated hydrocarbon reservoir in offshore Vietnam. In this paper, we present a case study of improving the fracture imaging in the Cuu Long Basin offshore Vietnam through Broadband technology, which not only provide ...

Model-based water-layer demultiple (MWD) is an effective method for attenuating water-layer-related multiples (WLRMs), especially in shallow water environments. Regular 3D MWD use regularized common-offset cubes for both shot- and receiver-side multiples. We propose a selective-input adaptation of the regular 3D MWD workflow that uses ...