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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2018
Methods using travel-time full waveform inversion for imaging subsurface formations with salt bodies
Cgg Services Sas, Massy, FR;
Zhigang Zhang, Houston, TX (US);
Ping Wang, Katy, TX (US);
Adriano Gomes, Houston, TX (US);
Jiawei Mei, Katy, TX (US);
Feng Lin, Katy, TX (US);
Rongxin Huang, Katy, TX (US);
CGG SERVICES SAS, Massy, FR;
Abstract
Methods and devices use improved FWI techniques for seismic exploration of subsurface formations including salt bodies using a travel-time cost function. In calculating the travel-time cost function, time-shifts may be weighted using cross-correlation coefficients of respective time-shifted recorded data and synthetic data generated based on current velocity model. The improved methods enhance the resulting image while avoiding cycle-skipping and issues related to amplitude difference between synthetic and recorded data.