Abstract:
Estimating an earthresponsecan includedeconvolving a multi-dimensional source wavefieldfrom near-continuously recorded seismic data recorded ata receiver position. The deconvolving can include spreading the near-continuously recorded seismic dataacross a plurality ofpossible source emission angles. The result of the deconvolution can bethe earth response estimate.
Abstract:
Methods for processing seismic data acquired with non-impulsive moving sources are provided. Some methods remove cross-talk noise from the seismic data using emitted signal data and an underground formation's response estimate, which may be iteratively enhanced. Some methods perform resampling before a spatial or a spatio-temporal inversion. Some methods compensate for source's motion during the inversion, and/or are usable for multiple independently moving sources.
Abstract:
A method includes obtaining seismic data including measurements of a seismic wavefield and obtaining at least one component of a spatial gradient of the measurements of the seismic wavefield. The method includes determining a representation of the seismic data based at partially on the measurements and the at least one component of the spatial gradient and identifying a signal of interest and noise in the representation of the seismic data based at least partially on different characteristics of the signal of interest and the noise in a domain of the representation. The method includes calculating at least one of a signal model or a noise model from the signal of interest and noise identified in the representation of the seismic data and determining a noise attenuated signal for the seismic data based at least partially on the at least one of the signal model or the noise model.
Abstract:
Computer-implemented method of low-cut filtering a seismic trace recorded over a recording time window, the method comprising: applying a causal low-cut filter to the seismic trace to generate first filtered data; applying an anti-causal low-cut filter to the seismic trace to generate second filtered data; truncating the first filtered data to generate first truncated data based on the recording time window; truncating the second filtered data to generate second truncated data based on the recording time window; removing the phase of the first truncated data; removing the phase of the second truncated data; selecting a portion of the first phase-removed truncated data to generate first modified data, the selected portion of the first phase-removed truncated data being associated with a later time interval of the seismic trace; selecting a portion of the second phase-removed truncated data to generate second modified data, the selected portion of the second phase-removed truncated data being associated with an earlier time interval of the seismic trace; and generating a low-cut filtered seismic trace by combining at least the first modified data and the second modified data.
Abstract:
A method can include receiving data in a data domain where a first portion of the data domain includes a signal to noise ratio that exceeds a signal to noise ratio in a second portion of the data domain; generating a model; in a transform domain, based at least in part on the model, filtering at least a portion of the data in the second portion of the data domain; and, based at least in part on the filtering, outputting noise attenuated data for at least a portion of the data in the second portion of the data domain.
Abstract:
A surface-consistent refraction analysis method to automatically derive near surface corrections for seismic data processing. The method uses concepts from surface-consistent analysis applied to refracted arrivals. The key aspects of the method consist of the use of CMP-offset-azimuth binning, evaluation of mean travel time and standard deviation for each bin, rejection of anomalous first break (FB) picks, derivation of CMP-based travel time-offset functions, conversion to velocity-depth functions, evaluation of long wavelength statics and calculation of surface-consistent residual statics through waveform cross-correlation. Residual time lags are evaluated in multiple CMP-offset-azimuth bins by cross-correlating a pilot trace with all the other traces in the gather where the correlation window is centered at the refracted arrival. The residuals are then used to build a system of linear equations that is simultaneously inverted for surface-consistent shot and receiver time shift corrections plus a possible subsurface residual term. All the steps are completely automated and require a fraction of the time needed for conventional near surface analysis.
Abstract:
A method for use in vertical seismic profiling includes: independently shooting a plurality of seismic sources in a plurality of shooting areas to impart seismic signals into a water bottom where the sources are shot simultaneously within a common time window; receiving reflections of the seismic signals from a subterranean formation beneath the water bottom at a plurality of seismic receivers; and recording the received reflections; wherein the seismic receivers are disposed in a wellbore in the water bottom.
Abstract:
This is a method of separating simultaneous sources that uses an inversion-type approach. Each source will preferably activated at a random time with respect to the others. These random delays tend to make the interference between sources incoherent while the reflections create coherent events within a series of shots. The shot separation is performed via a numerical inversion process that utilizes the sweeps for each shot, the start times of each shot, and the coherence of reflection events between nearby shots. Implementation of this method will allow seismic surveys to be acquired faster and cheaper.
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A method for obtaining zero-offset and near zero offset seismic data from a marine survey, with separation of direct arrival information and reflectivity information, the method including: modeling a direct arrival estimate at a passive near-field hydrophone array by using a notional source separation on active near-field hydrophone data; generating reflection data for the passive near-field hydrophone array by subtraction of the modeled direct wave from data recorded by the passive near-field hydrophone array; generating near zero-offset reflectivity traces by stacking the reflection data for the passive near-field hydrophone array on a string-by-string basis or on a combination of strings basis; generating reflectivity information at the active near-field hydrophone array by subtracting the direct arrival estimate modeled using the notional source separation from the active near-field hydrophone data; and generating an estimate of zero-offset reflectivity traces by calculating a cross-correlation between the between the reflectivity information at the active near-field hydrophone array and the near zero-offset traces and performing an optimized stacking with summation weights based on coefficients of the cross-correlation.
Abstract:
A device, medium and method for deblending seismic data associated with a subsurface of the earth. The method includes receiving (1600) an input dataset generated by first and second sources S 1 and S 2 that are operating as simultaneous sources; arranging (1602) the input dataset based on the firing times of source S 1 ; applying (1604) with a computing system an annihilation filter to the arranged input dataset to estimate cross-talk noise; convolving (1606) the cross-talk noise estimate with an operator to form a signal estimate using the firing times of S 1 and S 2 ; and generating (1608) an image of the subsurface based on the signal estimate.