Steering Migration with Diffractions in Seismic Exploration for Hard Rock Environments

Hard rock seismic exploration normally has to deal with rather complex geological environments. These types of environments are usually characterized by a large number of local heterogeneities (e.g., faults, fracture zones, steeply dip interfaces). The seismic data from such environments often have...

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Main Authors: Tertyshnikov, Konstantin, Pevzner, Roman, Bóna, Andrej, Alonaizi, Faisal Abdulkader, Gurevich, Boris
Other Authors: EAGE
Format: Conference Paper
Published: EAGE 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22969
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author Tertyshnikov, Konstantin
Pevzner, Roman
Bóna, Andrej
Alonaizi, Faisal Abdulkader
Gurevich, Boris
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Tertyshnikov, Konstantin
Pevzner, Roman
Bóna, Andrej
Alonaizi, Faisal Abdulkader
Gurevich, Boris
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description Hard rock seismic exploration normally has to deal with rather complex geological environments. These types of environments are usually characterized by a large number of local heterogeneities (e.g., faults, fracture zones, steeply dip interfaces). The seismic data from such environments often have a poor signal to noise ratio because of the complexity of hard rock geology. In such situations, the processing algorithms that are capable of handling data with a low signal/noise ratio are essential for a reflection seismic exploration. In this paper we describe an alteration of the 3D Kirchhoff post-stack migration algorithm that utilizes coherency attributes obtained by the diffraction imaging algorithm in 3D to weight or steer the main Kirchhoff summation. We apply the method to a 3D synthetic model with a presence of high level of random noise; and test the algorithm on the 3D seismic volume acquired on a mine site located in Western Australia.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-229692017-09-13T13:56:21Z Steering Migration with Diffractions in Seismic Exploration for Hard Rock Environments Tertyshnikov, Konstantin Pevzner, Roman Bóna, Andrej Alonaizi, Faisal Abdulkader Gurevich, Boris EAGE Hard rock seismic exploration normally has to deal with rather complex geological environments. These types of environments are usually characterized by a large number of local heterogeneities (e.g., faults, fracture zones, steeply dip interfaces). The seismic data from such environments often have a poor signal to noise ratio because of the complexity of hard rock geology. In such situations, the processing algorithms that are capable of handling data with a low signal/noise ratio are essential for a reflection seismic exploration. In this paper we describe an alteration of the 3D Kirchhoff post-stack migration algorithm that utilizes coherency attributes obtained by the diffraction imaging algorithm in 3D to weight or steer the main Kirchhoff summation. We apply the method to a 3D synthetic model with a presence of high level of random noise; and test the algorithm on the 3D seismic volume acquired on a mine site located in Western Australia. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22969 10.3997/2214-4609.20130704 EAGE restricted
spellingShingle Tertyshnikov, Konstantin
Pevzner, Roman
Bóna, Andrej
Alonaizi, Faisal Abdulkader
Gurevich, Boris
Steering Migration with Diffractions in Seismic Exploration for Hard Rock Environments
title Steering Migration with Diffractions in Seismic Exploration for Hard Rock Environments
title_full Steering Migration with Diffractions in Seismic Exploration for Hard Rock Environments
title_fullStr Steering Migration with Diffractions in Seismic Exploration for Hard Rock Environments
title_full_unstemmed Steering Migration with Diffractions in Seismic Exploration for Hard Rock Environments
title_short Steering Migration with Diffractions in Seismic Exploration for Hard Rock Environments
title_sort steering migration with diffractions in seismic exploration for hard rock environments
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22969