Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

Exxonmobil Technology and Engineering Company

Jaewoo Park

Carey M Marcinkovich

Anatoly I Baumstein

Rongrong Lu

Sirui Tan

Gboyega Ayeni

Peter Traynin

A method and apparatus for estimating RMO error, including obtaining input data comprising a domain of picking locations; running a plurality of residual moveout (RMO) error-picking algorithms with the input data; for each of the plurality of RMO error-picking algorithms, flattening gathers based on the respective RMO error-picking algorithms to generate a resultant error pick; comparing the resultant error picks from the plurality of RMO error-picking algorithms at each picking location in the domain of picking locations; and assembling a set of final RMO error picks from the resultant error picks from the plurality of RMO error-picking algorithms at each picking location.

Hybrid residual moveout error estimation

Iterative methods for inversion of seismic data to update a physical property model are disclosed. Such methods may comprise iteratively updating the model until a first predetermined resolution is achieved, using full wavefield inversion of the seismic data up to a first frequency threshold and assuming the seismic data is free of attenuation effects; extracting geobodies from the updated model; obtaining a Q model using the geobodies; and updating the physical property model using an inversion process, wherein the Q model is incorporated into the inversion process. These steps may be repeated until a second predetermined resolution of the physical property model is achieved, wherein the first frequency threshold is progressively increased in each repetition. The Q model may be updated with seismic data at all available frequencies to obtain a full-band Q model; and the physical property model may be updated using full-band migration and the full-band Q model.

Accurate velocity model estimation and imaging in the presence of localized attenuation (Q) anomalies

A method, including: generating updated velocity models, each corresponding to one of a plurality of initial velocity models of intersecting 2D seismic survey lines, wherein updates to the plurality of initial velocity models are computed by imposing a seismic-tie regularization constraint on an inversion process that inverts for the updates to the plurality of initial velocity models, and the seismic-tie regularization constraint causes the updated velocity models to have consistent values for depth of seismic reflectivity at intersecting spatial locations.

2D multiline seismic reflection tomography with seismic-tie constraint

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