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Summary

The compensation of absorption loss inside the imaging process using attenuation models estimated by Q-tomography is now widely accepted and used in the industry. This technology becomes even more important in the case of a complex dataset. For the Martin Linge field, characterized by a strong presence of faults and gas clouds, the multi-azimuth broadband acquisition involving a variable-depth streamer has helped to improve the quality of the data. High-end processing and imaging so far provided an image with enhanced resolution compared to legacy data mainly with regard to faulting in the deeper area.

Nevertheless, imaging remained poor in the deeper part of the section because of a seismic obscured area (SOA) caused by gas clouds. In this paper we now illustrate how we managed to enhance the resolution under this SOA zone using volumetric Q-tomography and Q-prestack depth migration (Q-PSDM). In other words, we show that multi-azimuth broadband acquisition combined with Q-tomography/Q-PSDM techniques can provide an improved final image in the case of a complex data with a SOA.

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2016-05-30
2024-03-29
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