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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 ...

We present a 4D case study of time-lapse multi-well Vertical Seismic Profiling (VSP) acquired with Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) at the Mars field, deepwater Gulf of Mexico. In this work, we are able to obtain meaningful 4D signals from multi-well DAS VSPs by addressing ...

The use of graph-space optimal transport within foil-waveform inversion (FWI) has recently been proposed to enhance robustness to cycle-skipping. In this paper, we discuss several features of the graph-space optimal transport FWI, emphasizing in particular its ability to detect time shifts between modelled and ...

The North West Shelf, situated in Western Australia, is a world-class offshore hydrocarbon province. The presence of hard water bottom, near water bottom reflectors and shallow Tertiary carbonates not only generates strong multiples but also distorts the ray-paths for deeper reflectors. Seismic data quality ...