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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2014
Cgg Services SA, Massy, FR;
Yves Lafet, Paris, FR;
Laurene Michou, Paris, FR;
Benjamin Roure, Calgary, CA;
Raphael Bornard, Leiden, NL;
CGG SERVICES SAS, Massy, FR;
Abstract
Global inversion of multi-vintage seismic data uses simulated annealing to minimize a cost function simultaneously for all vintages and all angle stacks to yield values of geophysical properties. Each vintage is generated from an independent seismic survey of a subsurface structure conducted over a distinct period of time and includes seismic traces and angle stacks. An initial model of the subsurface structure is used and includes values for geophysical properties and time shift maps between vintages. The time shift map contains shifts in the seismic trace between vintages. The cost function includes a time shift map term for the difference between the time shift map and a calculated time shift of the seismic trace between vintages and is based on a proposed perturbation to at least one of the geophysical properties. The time shift map is also used as a global constraint on proposed perturbations of subsurface properties.