Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

Chunling Wu

Yonghe J Sun

Chaoshun Hu

Leonard Lin Zhang

Yang Luo

Mark Chengliang Fan

A method is described for seismic imaging improved by an estimation of attenuation including receiving a pre-migration seismic dataset D(s, r; t) representative of a subsurface volume of interest wherein s indicates source location, r indicates receiver location, and t is the recorded travel time; calculating a pre-migration attenuated travel time t*(s, r; t); computing a time derivative of the pre-migration attenuated travel time wherein 1/Q(s, r; t)=&#x2202;t*(s, r; t)/&#x2202;t; performing a first migration on D(s,r;t) to generate common image point (CIP) gathers G(x, h) wherein x is subsurface image point and h is angle or offset; performing a second migration on D(s, r; t)*1/Q(s, r; t) to generate weighted common image point (CIP) gathers G(x, h); and calculating a conditioned ratio of the weighted CIP gathers G(x, h) over the CIP gathers G(x, h) to get CIP gathers of 1/Q(x, h) is disclosed.

System and method for generating a seismic attenuation model

Systems and methods for estimating reservoir productivity as a function of position in a subsurface volume of interest are disclosed. The systems and methods may: obtain subsurface data and well data corresponding to a subsurface volume of interest; obtain a parameter model; use the subsurface data and the well data to generate multiple production parameter maps; apply the parameter model to the multiple production parameter maps to generate refined production parameter values; generate multiple refined production parameter graphs; display the multiple refined production parameter graphs; generate one or more user input options; receive a defined well design and the one or more user input options selected by a user to generate limited production parameter values; generate a representation of estimated reservoir productivity as a function of position in the subsurface volume of interest using the defined well design and visual effects; and display the representation.

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San Ramon, CA, United States of America

Chunling Wu