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Deterministic seismic inversion methods have been successfully used in many exploration and production projects in the petroleum industry. Some of the benefits of these methods are: the inverted impedances are rock properties tightly calibrated with well data; the seismic inversion process itself attenuates the ...

This study is based on work performed on horizontal wells in the Cleveland Sandstone Formation. Previous work describes the technique of using automated, quantitative mineralogy (RoqScan) to analyse drill cuttings and derive rock property and elastic pseudo-logs to customize completion designs. We expand on ...

In offshore prospective areas, oil slicks at the sea surface are often seen as being the visible expression of a working petroleum system at depth. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has proven to be an effective tool for identifying these oil slicks by virtue of ...

This paper presents recent advances in the area of seismic interference (SI) attenuation. We show how high amplitude and broadside SI noise can be nearly perfectly attenuated as long as the interfering noise is shot-to-shot incoherent. Furthermore, we present a new algorithm that also ...

In this paper we present a new marine seismic acquisition technique initially developed to meet imaging challenges of the Loppa High in the Norwegian Barents Sea. Two seismic vessels operate in tandem; one streamer vessel towing a spread of deep, densely spaced streamers, and ...

Survey design comparison regarding seismic reservoir characterization objectives: a case study from South Tunisia L. Michou, L. Michel, P. Herrmann, T. Coleou, P.Feugere, J.L. Formento The objective of this onshore survey designs’ comparison case study is to highlight the impact of the acquisition trace ...

By August 2014 a full Permanent Reservoir Monitoring system was installed at the Grane field; since going live, five PRM surveys have been acquired. This paper describes how a robust sequence has been designed and optimized, thanks to the successful collaboration between processing (CGG) ...

We present a workflow for 3D MAZ PSDM velocity modeling with tilted orthorhombic anisotropy. We focus on two aspects of depth-velocity modeling that are extremely important for seismic data from the NW Australian shelf: (1) high resolution adaptive seismic tomography to deal with strong ...

It is well known that imaging of complex regions can be significantly improved with increased illumination in terms of offset and azimuth sampling. In this case study we illustrate how an existing large scale acquisition can be enriched by acquiring a second complementary survey ...