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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2007
Sverre Brandsberg-dahl, Houston, TX (US);
Brian E. Hornby, Katy, TX (US);
Sverre Brandsberg-Dahl, Houston, TX (US);
Brian E. Hornby, Katy, TX (US);
BP Corporation North America Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The methods described herein are conceptually similar to classical migration/imaging for surface seismic data. However, instead of using computed (estimated) Green's functions in the imaging process, the instant invention utilizes measured (near-exact) Green's functions from VSP data to image the surface seismic data. Although the instant invention is best utilized where the velocity profile is approximately 1D (i.e., v(z)), the methods disclosed herein can also be extended to instances where there are some lateral velocity variations. Under these conditions, the instant invention allows for imaging surface seismic data and 'self-imaging' VSP data without first having to estimate a velocity model. The measurements obtained from the VSP data can also be used as a tool for calibrating computed Green's functions and migration operators.
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