Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods to enhance 3-D prestack seismic data based on non-linear beamforming in the cross-spread domain
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Application No.: US16968433Application Date: 2018-02-08
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Publication No.: US11573342B2Publication Date: 2023-02-07
- Inventor: Andrey Bakulin , Maxim Dmitriev , Ilya Silvestrov , Vladimir Tcheverda , Dmitry Neklyudov , Maxim Protasov , Kirill Gadylshin
- Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company , Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics
- Applicant Address: SA Dhahran; RU Novosibirsk
- Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company,Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics
- Current Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company,Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics
- Current Assignee Address: SA Dhahran; RU Novosibirsk
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- International Application: PCT/RU2018/000079 WO 20180208
- International Announcement: WO2019/156586 WO 20190815
- Main IPC: G01V1/36
- IPC: G01V1/36 ; G01V1/00

Abstract:
The disclosure provides systems and methods to enhance pre-stack data for seismic data analysis by: sorting the reflection seismic data acquired from cross-spread gathers into sets of data sections; performing data enhancement on the sets of data sections to generate enhanced traces by: (i) applying forward normal-moveout (NMO) corrections such that arrival times of primary reflection events become more flat, (ii) estimating beamforming parameters including a nonlinear traveltime surface and a summation aperture, (iii) generating enhanced traces that combine contributions from original traces in the sets of data sections, and (iv) applying inverse NMO corrections to the enhanced traces such that temporal rearrangements due to the forward NMO corrections are undone.
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