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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2012
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Paul James Hatchell, Katy, TX (US);
Jorge Louis Lopez, Bellaire, TX (US);
Johan Cornelis Hornman, The Hague, NL;
SHELL OIL COMPANY, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for generating an image of a subsurface feature, comprises providing seismic data containing information about the feature, comprising i) a first dataset comprising a first up-going wave-field and a first down-going wave-field, ii) a second dataset comprising a second up-going wave-field and a second down-going wave-field, wherein the second dataset is collected at a time that is later than the first dataset by a time interval, creating an up-going 4D difference dataset U by subtracting one of the first and second up-going wave-fields from the other and creating a down-going 4D difference dataset D by subtracting one of the first and second down-going wave-fields from the other, creating a weighting function W that is a function of the similarity of the difference datasets, and creating an image of the feature by generating a 4D similarity stack, where the 4D similarity stack is defined as (U+D)*W/2.