Zero-phasing seismic data without wells in offshore West Africa: Reducing uncertainty and variability of the wavelet

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 352-361

  Foster, Mark S ^a   Nunn, Keith R ^a,b   Lewis, Sarah A ^a,b   Reynolds, David J ^a,b  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^b Melbourne Central ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMIC WAVES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

GAPPED DECONVOLUTIONS; WAVELET COMPRESSION; WELL MATCHING; ZERO PHASED SEISMIC DATA;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; SEISMIC DATA; WAVELET ESTIMATION; ZERO PHASING;

EID: 0030825434     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444137     Document Type: Article

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