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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2014
Hongchuan Sun, Spring, TX (US);
Feng Deng, Houston, TX (US);
Carey M. Marcinkovich, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Hongchuan Sun, Spring, TX (US);
Feng Deng, Houston, TX (US);
Carey M. Marcinkovich, The Woodlands, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Method for estimating reflector dips in a window of post stack image traces () of seismic data for use in velocity tomography (). The method iteratively () flattens () the image traces against a specified reference trace through the application of conjugate-gradient least-squares inversion (). Different from other dip estimation methods which emphasize on strong-amplitude reflectors, the inventive method automatically inverts for the reflector dip for every grid point in the image window.