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Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2020
Applicant:

Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US);

Inventors:

Sirui Tan, Spring, TX (US);

Junzhe Sun, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/28 (2006.01); G01V 1/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/282 (2013.01); G01V 1/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for generating attenuation-compensated images of subsurface region, including: computing an image of the region utilizing elastic wave propagation, based on field data and subsurface model; generating forward-modeled data utilizing forward viscoelastic wave propagation, based on the image; computing secondary image by migration; computing NMF based on the images; and applying the NMF to the image to generate the attenuation-compensated image. A method and apparatus includes: iteratively computing attenuation-compensated gradient of the region utilizing an elastic wave propagation operator in the back-propagation and a viscoelastic wave propagation operator in the forward modelling, based on field data and subsurface model; computing search direction based on the attenuation-compensated gradient, searching for an improved model, and checking the improved model for convergence.


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