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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2021
Chevron U.s.a. Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Yonghe J. Sun, Cypress, TX (US);
Chunling Wu, Houston, TX (US);
Mark Chengliang Fan, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described for seismic imaging improved by an estimation of attenuation including receiving a pre-migration seismic dataset D(s, r; t) representative of a subsurface volume of interest wherein s indicates source location, r indicates receiver location, and t is the recorded travel time; calculating a pre-migration attenuated travel time t*(s, r; t); computing a time derivative of the pre-migration attenuated travel time wherein 1/Q(s, r; t)=∂t*(s, r; t)/∂t; performing a first migration on D(s,r;t) to generate common image point (CIP) gathers G(x, h) wherein x is subsurface image point and h is angle or offset; performing a second migration on D(s, r; t)*1/Q(s, r; t) to generate weighted common image point (CIP) gathers G(x, h); and calculating a conditioned ratio of the weighted CIP gathers G(x, h) over the CIP gathers G(x, h) to get CIP gathers of 1/Q(x, h) is disclosed.