Dirty salt velocity model building with constrained iterative tomography: Methodology and application

TitleDirty salt velocity model building with constrained iterative tomography: Methodology and application
Publication TypeConference Proceedings
Year of Conference2013
AuthorsHelgesen, HKristian, Liu, J, Tang, J, Salama, A, Pepper, R, Madden, S, Woodward, M, Klebleeva, A, Dorrington, EFrugier, Sabaa, AEL, Yarman, CEvren, Fournier, A, Yang, Y, Osypov, KS
Conference NameSEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2013
PublisherSociety of Exploration Geophysicists
Abstract

Subsalt imaging has been a challenge for Gulf of Mexico (GoM) exploration, mostly due to the complexity of salt geometry and high salt-sediment velocity contrast. In addition to these, the presence of inclusions within the salt, also referred to as dirty salt, presents an additional significant challenge in subsalt imaging. Following a systematic study with synthetic datasets, we propose a new method for automatically determining the dirty salt geometry, and a further consolidated constrained iterative dirty salt velocity model building flow. We applied this workflow on a real GoM dataset and demonstrate its effectiveness by presenting an improved subsalt image.

URLhttp://library.seg.org/doi/abs/10.1190/segam2013-1243.1
DOI10.1190/segeab.3210.1190/segam2013-1243.1

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