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Application of Advanced Velocity Model Building and Migration Technology On Offshore North Africa Marine Dataset
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 79th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2017, Jun 2017, Volume 2017, p.1 - 5
Abstract
In recent years there has been tremendous progress made on the seismic migration and velocity model-updating technology to achieve better resolution and higher positioning accuracy, thus providing more valuable information to reduce exploration risk. In a dataset from offshore North Africa, the velocity model building is challenging due to a highly faulted geological setting and the presence of gas hydrates in the shallow overburden. Furthermore the image resolution beneath these diffracting and absorptive bodies is poor if we do not compensate for the resulting attenuation. This case study illustrates how a combination of sophisticated velocity update technologies, such as full waveform inversion and the latest tomography developments, together with Q-prestack depth migration, can achieve high quality seismic imaging.