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Azimuthal inversion is state-of-the-art inversion technology for stress and fractured reservoir characterization and detection in anisotropic media. This technology requires a wide-azimuth seismic survey and careful azimuth dependent processing with noise attenuation. In this paper, the influence of noise attenuation on the reliability of ...

We demonstrate a 4D FWI technique using a synthetic study involving 3D elastic modeling through a highly realistic Earth model akin to the actual Grane PRM data. For this acquisition configuration, this study also indicates there is minimal sensitivity of the method to various ...

This paper reviews elastic property changes in anisotropic mediums and proposes a workflow to model elastic stiffness tensor using conventional well logs in a vertical transverse isotropic medium. The proposed workflow uses the concept of downscaling and then upscaling of normal logs using Backus ...

3D VSP data provides a unique opportunity to improve image resolution and fault definition in the vicinity of a well. However, the processing and imaging of VSP data requires special accommodations for its distinctive acquisition geometry. In this abstract, we demonstrate two key VSP ...

A quantitative interpretation was carried out in order to improve geological model and de-risk the prospect in the next exploration drilling campaign. Recently drilled exploration wells based on conventional seismic interpretation drilled through channel levee instead of the targeted channel core. Vertical resolution, reservoir ...

The characteristics of lithologic reservoirs, such as complex channels with distinctly lateral variations and variable thickness, make such reservoir features difficult to identify when using conventional geostatistical methods or applying seismic attribute methods. To decrease the uncertainty and improve the lateral distribution of the ...

Free-surface datum variations cause complications for hydrophone only receiver deghosting algorithms that assume a horizontal free-surface. We describe a multi-shot receiver deghosting approach that derives a tau-psht-prec model of ghost free data at mean free-surface datum. The model is derived so as to simultaneously ...

In this paper, we develop Dynamic-warping Full Waveform Inversion (D-FWI) to address cycle skipping problem which is a well-known challenging issue in conventional FWI. The dynamic warping technique is used to detect the travel time difference between the predicted and the observed wave fields ...

Multiple attenuation is a key step of broadband marine processing which could be challenging for primary preservation, spatial continuities and low frequencies. Rather than a cascaded de-multiple sequence, which could lead to cumulate mistakes and uncertainties, with final results potentially questionable for further pre-stack ...