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Volume 70, Issue 4
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ABSTRACT

Seismic reconstruction of missing traces is an extremely important subject in seismic data processing. It includes both interpolation and extrapolation of sparsely recorded data. Extrapolation is often performed in the absence of near‐offset seismic data recorded through marine acquisition. Several reconstruction methods have been designed to circumvent this sparsity in time–offset, frequency–offset and time–frequency domains. In this research, I propose an oriented extrapolation workflow to reconstruct near‐offset missing traces. The term oriented or velocity‐independent refers to those techniques that are based on the use of local slopes. In the proposed workflow, I use an oriented time‐warping algorithm called predictive painting. This algorithm is suitable to predict two‐way traveltimes between two distinctive points of an event. Seismic events recorded by an off‐end array very rarely contain dips of both signs with respect to their zero‐offset location in common‐midpoint domain. This makes the domain an ideal choice to run the algorithm. The proposed algorithm is demonstrated on synthetic and field data examples. I decimate near‐offset seismic traces and reconstruct them through the algorithm. The reconstruction results are compared with the original data before decimation. Furthermore, insensitivity of the proposed workflow to the presence of class II amplitude‐versus‐offset anomalies is demonstrated on a synthetic example. I also perform a velocity‐dependent (a normal‐moveout‐based) technique on the field data and compare the corresponding outcomes with the results achieved by the application of the proposed velocity‐independent approach. All the results suggest that the proposed technique has the potential to be used in the exploration industry.

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Keyword(s): CMP domain; Local slopes; Predictive painting; Seismic extrapolation

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