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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 10, 2017
Applicant:

Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;

Inventors:

Yang Zhao, Katy, TX (US);

Weichang Li, Katy, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/36 (2006.01); G01V 1/32 (2006.01); G01V 1/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/366 (2013.01); G01V 1/28 (2013.01); G01V 1/32 (2013.01); G01V 1/36 (2013.01); G01V 2210/23 (2013.01); G01V 2210/242 (2013.01); G01V 2210/25 (2013.01); G01V 2210/26 (2013.01); G01V 2210/44 (2013.01); G01V 2210/48 (2013.01); G01V 2210/57 (2013.01);
Abstract

Seismic shot gather data is received from a computer data store for processing. The received seismic shot gather data is separated into downgoing and upgoing wavefields, a time-frequency-wavenumber (t-f-k) three-dimensional (3D) data cube comprising multiple time-frequency (t-f) slices is formed. The downgoing wavefields are wavelet transformed from a time (t) domain to a t-f domain and the upgoing wavefields are wavelet transformed from the t domain to the t-f domain. A wavelet cross-correlation is performed between the downgoing wavefields in the t-f domain and the upgoing wavefields in a t-f-k domain to generate wavelet cross-correlated data. Soft-threshold filtering if performed for each t-f slice of the t-f-k 3D data cube. An inverse wavelet transform is performed to bring wavelet cross-correlated data from the t-f-k domain to a time-receiver (t-x) domain. All seismic shots of the received seismic shot gather data are looped over and the wavelet cross-correlated data is stacked as a virtual source gather.


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