Seismic Diffraction

Seismic Diffraction
Author: Tijmen Jan Moser
Publisher: SEG Books
Total Pages: 823
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1560803177

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The use of diffraction imaging to complement the seismic reflection method is rapidly gaining momentum in the oil and gas industry. As the industry moves toward exploiting smaller and more complex conventional reservoirs and extensive new unconventional resource plays, the application of the seismic diffraction method to image sub-wavelength features such as small-scale faults, fractures and stratigraphic pinchouts is expected to increase dramatically over the next few years. “Seismic Diffraction” covers seismic diffraction theory, modeling, observation, and imaging. Papers and discussion include an overview of seismic diffractions, including classic papers which introduced the potential of diffraction phenomena in seismic processing; papers on the forward modeling of seismic diffractions, with an emphasis on the theoretical principles; papers which describe techniques for diffraction mathematical modeling as well as laboratory experiments for the physical modeling of diffractions; key papers dealing with the observation of seismic diffractions, in near-surface-, reservoir-, as well as crustal studies; and key papers on diffraction imaging.

Refraction Seismic Velocity Analyses from Multichannel Seismic Data Acquired During Expedition ARA04C on the IBRV Araon in the Beaufort Sea

Refraction Seismic Velocity Analyses from Multichannel Seismic Data Acquired During Expedition ARA04C on the IBRV Araon in the Beaufort Sea
Author: M. Riedel
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Release: 2014
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Expedition ARA04C was conducted from September 10 - September 26, 2013 to investigate the Canadian Beaufort Sea shelf and slope region. The expedition was carried out under the regional geo-hazard assessment project of the offshore Beaufort region within the Geological Survey of Canada's (GSC) Public Safety Program. During the expedition multichannel seismic data were collected that have been analysed to detect and map ice-bearing sediments using the seismic refraction technique. The results from the refraction velocity analysis allowed verification of major boundaries of permafrost or ice-bearing sediment occurrences from previous work carried out by the GSC in 1987, but also define several critical corrections, especially near the shelf edge zone.

Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Surface Waves

Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Surface Waves
Author: Anatoli L. Levshin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783764365516

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On September 1996, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), prohibiting nuclear explosions worldwide, in all environments. The treaty calls for a global verification system, including a network of 321 monitoring stations distributed around the globe, a data communications network, an international data center (IDC), and on-site inspections to verify compliance. Seismic methods play the lead role in monitoring the CTBT. This volume concentrates on the measurement and use of surface waves in monitoring the CTBT. Surface waves have three principal applications in CTBT monitoring: to help discriminate nuclear explosions from other sources of seismic energy, to provide mathematical characterizations of the seismic energy that emanates from seismic sources, and to be used as data in inversion for the seismic velocity structure of the crust and uppermost mantle for locating small seismic events regionally. The papers in this volume fall into two general categories: the development and/or application of methods to summarize information in surface waves, and the use of these summaries to advance the art of surface-wave identification, measurement, and source characterization. These papers cut across essentially all of the major applications of surface waves to monitoring the CTBT. This volume therefore provides a general introduction to the state of research in this area and should be useful as a guide for further exploration.

Seismic Data Analysis

Seismic Data Analysis
Author: Özdoğan Yilmaz
Publisher: SEG Books
Total Pages: 2065
Release: 2001
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1560800941

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Expanding the author's original work on processing to include inversion and interpretation, and including developments in all aspects of conventional processing, this two-volume set is a comprehensive and complete coverage of the modern trends in the seismic industry - from time to depth, from 3D to 4D, from 4D to 4C, and from isotropy to anisotropy.

Land Seismic Case Studies for Near-Surface Modeling and Subsurface Imaging

Land Seismic Case Studies for Near-Surface Modeling and Subsurface Imaging
Author: Öz Yilmaz
Publisher: SEG Books
Total Pages: 1056
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1560803800

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Written for practicing geophysicists, “Land Seismic Case Studies for Near-Surface Modeling and Subsurface Imaging” is a comprehensive guide to understanding and interpreting seismic data. The culmination of land seismic data acquisition and processing projects conducted by the author over the last two decades, this book contains more than nearly 800 figures from worldwide case studies—conducted in both 2D and 3D. Beginning with Chapter 1 on seismic characterization of the near-surface, Chapter 2 presents near-surface modeling by traveltime and full-wave inversion, Chapter 3 presents near-surface modeling by imaging, and then Chapter 4 includes detailed case studies for near-surface modeling. Chapter 5 reviews single- and multichannel signal processing of land seismic data with the key objective of removing surface waves and guided waves that are characterized as coherent linear noise. Uncommon seismic data acquisition methods, including large-offset acquisition in thrust belts to capture the large-amplitude supercritical reflections, swath-line acquisition, and joint PP and SH- SH seismic imaging are highlighted in Chapter 6, and Chapter 7 presents image-based rms velocity estimation and discusses the problem of velocity uncertainty. The final two chapters focus exclusively on case studies: 2D in Chapter 8 and 3D in Chapter 9. An outstanding teaching tool, this book includes analysis workflows containing processing steps designed to solve specific problems. Essential for anyone involved in acquisition, processing, and inversion of seismic data, this volume will become the definitive reference for understanding how the variables in seismic acquisition are directly reflected in the data.

Velocities in Reflection Seismology

Velocities in Reflection Seismology
Author: Jean-Pierre Cordier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1985-09-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9789027720245

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Although considera bIe efforts are now being made to find new sources of energy, alI the experts are agreed that hydrocarbons will have to provide the greater part of our energy needs for a generation ahead. Exploration for and production of hydrocarbons therefore pose a serious problem for our future, as much for the quantitative satisfaction of our requirements as for our search for self-sufficiency in energy. As a direct result of improvements in technology throughout the world, geophysics has progressively enlarged its field of influence in the realms of exploration and production. But amongst the various geophysical methods available, seismic reflection has gradually become accepted as the basic tool of the oiI prospector. Reflection seismology has reached and consolidated this position because it has shown itself to be capable of adapting to the increasing complexity of the requirements of exploration. Initially directed towards geometric mapping of the sub-surface, it became the means of detection of structural traps in geotectonically quiescent regions, and thereafter in increasingly complex surroundings. It has enabled us to clothe the structural framework with a lithology, initially approximate, but becoming more and more precise, assisting the explorer to locate stratigraphic traps. Further developments enable us under favourable circumstances to estimate the quality of the deposits and to detect the presence of fluids and of their interfaces; it then becomes an unrivalled tool for the producer, both in the development of deposits and in the application of enhanced recovery methods.