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Volume 36 Number 12
  • ISSN: 0263-5046
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2397

Abstract

Abstract

Recent step changes in seismic processing and imaging technology have delivered dramatic improvements in resolution, velocity model building and multiple attenuation. This article will explore improvements in resolution that have been demonstrated on two multi-client surveys in the North Sea: Cornerstone and Northern Viking Graben (NVG). Extending full-waveform inversion (FWI) to include absorption effects as well as velocity has delivered improved imaging, higher resolution and more reliable AVO products for the NVG survey, and this will now be applied to the reprocessed Cornerstone data. Both surveys cover more than 35,000 km2 each, so application of high-resolution processing sequences to these two data sets will deliver advanced high-resolution data over two large areas of the North Sea.

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