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The presence of gas clouds has long been recognized as a significant problem in the seismic data processing. To compensate for the gas absorption effect in the Q-PSDM migration, both the geometry and the Q values within these anomalous attenuation regions need to be accurately estimated. In recent years, Ray-based Q tomography has been successfully applied to field data to estimate the anomalous Q model.

However, when the distribution of the gas charged sand bodies gets more complex, Q tomography itself often fails to provide necessary resolution to generate a geologically plausible absorption model. Joint inversion for velocity and Q with visco-acoustic full waveform inversion has attracted a lot of interests from the industry; however, it remains a very challenging topic as the joint inversion for both VP and Q is an ill-posed problem, as they are coupled. In this paper, we propose a new approach which uses the highly detailed velocity information from the 3D frequency domain FWI to guide the Q tomography inversion. We demonstrate with a production example offshore Malaysia that our method can effectively reconstruct the Q model and improve the seismic imaging in the presence of complex gas clouds.

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2014-06-16
2024-04-19

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FWI-guided Q Tomography for Imaging in the Presence of Complex Gas Clouds
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