3‐D velocity model building via iterative one‐pass depth migration

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian F. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Model Building ◽  
Velocity Model ◽  
Depth Migration ◽  
Velocity Model Building

Efficient velocity model building for prestack depth migration

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 751-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. C. Kim ◽  
C. M. Samuelsen ◽  
T. A. Hauge
Keyword(s):  
Model Building ◽  
Velocity Model ◽  
Prestack Depth Migration ◽  
Depth Migration ◽  
Velocity Model Building

Velocity model building technique and prestack depth migration on a work station

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey F. Mills ◽  
Matthew Brzostowski ◽  
Stephen Ridgway ◽  
Wen Fong Chang ◽  
Chuck Barton
Keyword(s):  
Model Building ◽  
Velocity Model ◽  
Prestack Depth Migration ◽  
Work Station ◽  
Depth Migration ◽  
Velocity Model Building ◽  
Building Technique

Salt interpretation enabled by reverse-time migration

Geophysics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. VE211-VE216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus Buur ◽  
Thomas Kühnel
Keyword(s):  
Model Building ◽  
Velocity Model ◽  
Reverse Time ◽  
Reverse Time Migration ◽  
Seismic Line ◽  
Depth Migration ◽  
Time Migration ◽  
Velocity Model Building ◽  
Migration Method

Many production targets in greenfield exploration are found in salt provinces, which have highly complex structures as a result of salt formation over geologic time. Difficult geologic settings, steep dips, and other wave-propagation effects make reverse-time migration (RTM) the migration method of choice, rather than Kirchhoff migration or other (by definition approximate) one-way equation methods. Imaging of the subsurface using any depth-migration algorithm can be done successfully only when the quality of the prior velocity model is sufficient. The (velocity) model-building loop is an iterative procedure for improving the velocity model. This is done by obtaining certain measurements (residual moveout) on image gathers generated during the migration procedure; those measurements then are input into tomographic updating. Commonly RTM is applied around salt bodies, where building the velocity model fails essentially because tomography is ray-trace based. Our idea is to apply RTM directly inside the model-building loop but to do so without using the image gathers. Although the process is costly, we migrate the full frequency content of the data to create a high-quality stack. This enhances the interpretation of top and bottom salt significantly and enables us to include the resulting salt geometry in the velocity model properly. We demonstrate our idea on a 2D West Africa seismic line. After several model-building iterations, the result is a dramatically improved velocity model. With such a good model as input, the final RTM confirms the geometry of the salt bodies and basically the salt interpretation, and yields a compelling image of the subsurface.

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