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Abstract

ABSTRACT

Three‐dimensional residual moveout analysis is the basic step in velocity model refinement. The analysis is generally carried out using horizontal and/or vertical semblances defined on a sparse set of in‐lines or cross‐lines with densely sampled source–receiver offsets. An alternative approach, which we call dense residual moveout analysis (DRMA), is to use all the bins of a three‐dimensional survey but sparsely sampled offsets. The proposed technique is very fast and provides unbiased and statistically efficient estimates of the residual moveout. Indeed, for the sparsest possible offset distribution, when only near‐ and far‐angle stacks are used, the variance of the residual moveout estimate is only 1.4 times larger than the variance of the least‐squares estimate obtained using all offsets.

The high performance of DRMA makes it a useful tool for many applications, of which azimuthal velocity analysis is considered here. For a horizontal transverse isotropy (HTI) model, a deterministic procedure is proposed to define, at every point of residual moveout estimation, the azimuthal angle of the HTI axis of symmetry, the Thomsen anisotropy coefficients, and the interval (or root‐mean‐square) velocities in both the HTI isotropy and symmetry planes. The procedure is not restricted by DRMA assumptions; for example, it is also applicable to semblance‐based residual moveout estimates.

The high resolution of the technique is illustrated by azimuthal velocity analysis over an oilfield in West Siberia.

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Dense 3D residual moveout analysis as a tool for HTI parameter estimation
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