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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2011
Mark A. Roberts, Houston, TX (US);
Brian E. Hornby, Katy, TX (US);
Mark A. Roberts, Houston, TX (US);
Brian E. Hornby, Katy, TX (US);
BP Corporation North America Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided herein a system and method for imaging complex subsurface geologic structures such as salt dome flanks using VSP data. In the preferred arrangement, a receiver wave field will be downward continued through a salt flood model and a source wave field will be upward continued through a sediment flood model until they 'meet' at the subsurface locations of the VSP receivers. The source and receiver wave fields will be cross correlated as an imaging condition at each depth interval.