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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2008
Applicants:
Kenneth H. Matson, Houston, TX (US);
John T. Etgen, Houston, TX (US);
Phuong VU, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
BP Corporation North America Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/00 (2006.01); G01V 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided herein a system and method for the imaging and monitoring of the subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs and other subsurface features, wherein the collected seismic data contain multiples therein. In brief, the instant invention is a method of removing multiples using surface-related multiple elimination (SRME), wherein wide azimuth seismic data are used to directly compute a multiple prediction via a mixed space-wavenumber-frequency domain implementation.