Full waveform inversion of time-lapse VSP data

Vertical seismic profile (VSP) is one of the technologies for monitoring hydrocarbon production and CO2 geosequestration. However, quantitative interpretation of time-lapse VSP is challenging due to its irregular distribution of source-receiver offsets. One way to overcome this challenge is to use f...

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Main Author: Egorov, Anton
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79285
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description Vertical seismic profile (VSP) is one of the technologies for monitoring hydrocarbon production and CO2 geosequestration. However, quantitative interpretation of time-lapse VSP is challenging due to its irregular distribution of source-receiver offsets. One way to overcome this challenge is to use full waveform inversion (FWI), which does not require regular offsets. We present a workflow of elastic FWI applied to offset vertical seismic profile data for the purpose of identification and estimation of time-lapse changes introduced by injection of 15,000 t of CO2-rich gas mixture at 1.5 km depth. Application of this workflow to both synthetic and field data shows that elastic FWI is able to detect and quantify the time-lapse anomaly in P wave velocity with the magnitude of 100–150 m/s.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-792852020-05-19T04:48:49Z Full waveform inversion of time-lapse VSP data Egorov, Anton Vertical seismic profile (VSP) is one of the technologies for monitoring hydrocarbon production and CO2 geosequestration. However, quantitative interpretation of time-lapse VSP is challenging due to its irregular distribution of source-receiver offsets. One way to overcome this challenge is to use full waveform inversion (FWI), which does not require regular offsets. We present a workflow of elastic FWI applied to offset vertical seismic profile data for the purpose of identification and estimation of time-lapse changes introduced by injection of 15,000 t of CO2-rich gas mixture at 1.5 km depth. Application of this workflow to both synthetic and field data shows that elastic FWI is able to detect and quantify the time-lapse anomaly in P wave velocity with the magnitude of 100–150 m/s. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79285 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Egorov, Anton
Full waveform inversion of time-lapse VSP data
title Full waveform inversion of time-lapse VSP data
title_full Full waveform inversion of time-lapse VSP data
title_fullStr Full waveform inversion of time-lapse VSP data
title_full_unstemmed Full waveform inversion of time-lapse VSP data
title_short Full waveform inversion of time-lapse VSP data
title_sort full waveform inversion of time-lapse vsp data
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79285