Technical Content

Receiver deghosting algorithms assuming a flat sea surface may be sub-optimal in the case of significant sea surface datum variations. We propose a method that begins by using the seismic data to calculate a sea surface profile. The sea surface profile is then provided ...

We introduce an inversion-driven free surface multiple modelling scheme based on multi-order Green’s functions. The approach optionally combines surface related multiple modelling with source designature and receiver deghosting. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach for peg-leg multiple suppression as well as highlighting the ...

Ghost wavefield elimination is pivotal for improving the bandwidth and image resolution for marine seismic data. Synhronized multi-level source arrays, which aim to synchronize the primary wavefield and desynchronize the source ghost, can greatly attenuate the source ghost wavefield during acquistion. However, even with ...

RTM surface offset gathers (SOG) contain subsalt events spanning the entire offset range (i.e., longer usable curvatures for tomography). RTM SOGs also have more reliable residual curvatures because each offset and azimuth group is migrated independently and does not interfere with the neighboring ones ...

We designed and implemented a practical and comprehensive workflow to mitigate missing source wavelet information and waveforms with vast spatial variation for land dynamite surveys and addressed the common challenges of acoustic-FWI application on land surveys during field data preparation.

A flexible Radon modelling algorithm using time-frequency sparseness weights is introduced. The method may be used for a number of applications and combines the dealiasing and time resolution benefits of existing methods. Compared with a frequency domain sparseness approach, the proposed method results in ...

The paper gives an overview of a full 4C deblending process and its results up to migration in the case of a real 2D 4C dataset acquired offshore Malaysia. Special emphasis is put on the deblending QCs and the specificities of the deblending flow ...

This article focuses on an area of the Ivorian part of the Tano Basin where no drilling has yet taken place. It describes the interpretation of a new multi-client BroadSeis™ 3D seismic survey covering this unexplored area, which has provided the basis for a ...

Building on our earlier Big Data paper at OTC in May 2015, this article in JPT October 2015 continues our push to demonstrate the use of Big Data in an Oil & Gas context. Well data from the UKCS were analysed to identify "bad ...