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The imaging of the complex fault system plays an important role in hydrocarbon exploration in Wenchang field since the fault system forms a bridge between the source rocks and reservoirs. However, it is challenging to obtain a high quality depth image of the fault ...

A new broadband Wide-Azimuth Towed-Streamer (WATS) survey was acquired in a shallow water region of offshore China to better resolve reservoir compartments. Two side boats were added as additional source boats to form the WATS acquisition geometry to resolve the shortcomings of narrow-azimuth acquisition ...

Much recent work has been done on comparing machine learning and geophysical inversion techniques to the extraction of model parameters from seismic reflection data. In our profession we are used to analyzing the physics of geophysical problems in detail. However, in many of the ...

The use of existing geological and structural maps, previous 2D seismic profiles, boreholes and correlation models between these data is sufficient to understand basin structure and thermal systems on a regional scale. However, this is not sufficient on a scale of a geothermal site....

Well planning is one of the most demanding aspects of drilling engineering for hydrocarbons. Hence, seismic exploration objectives often require the interpretation of the seismic image as early as possible to facilitate well planning. This task becomes challenging when one needs to employ advanced ...

We discuss the advantages of multidimensional (in data space) optimal transport (OT) full waveform inversion (FWI). We show that a careful formulation results into an enhanced coherency of the events continuity in the move-out direction, that leads to an improved velocity update compared to ...

Main authors are BP and CGG are co-authors so limited on what updates can be made. Ongoing thoughts are that CGG would like more acknowledgment for the "EVO"; approach but other than that happy with the content.

Shallow S-wave velocity model building is very important to land and Ocean Bottom Seismic (OBS) PS data processing. Surface wave, propagating along near surface, brings lots of useful information of shallow lithology which is good for near surface S-wave velocity estimation. In this study ...

The Mungo field in the North Sea is both structurally and stratigraphically complex. Despite improvements of OBC acquisition over the legacy towed streamer data interpretational challenges, particularly with respect to the salt geometry, remained. To achieve the required step-change in imaging within the project’s ...