Non-hyperbolic moveout inversion of wide-azimuth P-wave data for orthorhombic media

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 535-552

  Vasconcelos, Ivan ^a   Tsvankin, Ilya ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; SHEAR WAVES; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; INVERSION ALGORITHM; STRATIFIED ORTHORHOMBIC MODELS; WIDE-AZIMUTH P-WAVE REFLECTIONS;

SEISMIC WAVES;

NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 33748341727     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2006.00559.x     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Adam L., van Wijk K. and Davis T. 2003. Multi-level 3D VSP travel time inversion in VTI media, Weyburn field, Canada. 73rd SEG Meeting, Dallas, USA, Expanded Abstracts, 753-756.
2. Al-Dajani A. and Tsvankin I. 1998. Non-hyperbolic reflection moveout for horizontal transverse isotropy. Geophysics 63, 1738-1753.
3. Al-Dajani A., Tsvankin I. and Toksöz M.N. 1998. Non-hyperbolic reflection moveout for azimuthally anisotropic media. 68th SEG Meeting, New Orleans, USA, Expanded Abstracts, 1479-1482.
4. Alkhalifah T. 1997. Velocity analysis using non-hyperbolic moveout in transversely isotropic media. Geophysics 62, 1839-1854.
5. Alkhalifah T. and Tsvankin I. 1995. Velocity analysis for transversely isotropic media. Geophysics 60, 1550-1566.
6. van der Baan M. 2004. Processing of anisotropic data in the τ - p domain: I - Geometric spreading and moveout corrections. Geophysics 69, 719-730.
7. Bakulin A., Grechka V. and Tsvankin I. 2000. Estimation of fracture parameters from reflection seismic data-Part II: Fractured models with orthorhombic symmetry. Geophysics 65, 1803-1817.
8. Cardona R. 2002. Fluid substitution theories and multicomponent seismic characterization of fractured reservoirs. PhD Thesis, Colorado School of Mines.
9. Douma H. and Calvert A. 2006. Non-hyperbolic moveout analysis in VTI media using rational interpolation. Geophysics 71, D59-D71.
10. Fomel S. 2004. On anelliptic approximations for qP velocities in VTI media. Geophysical Prospecting 52, 247-259.
11. Gajewski D. and Pšenčík I. 1987. Computation of high frequency seismic wavefields in 3-D laterally inhomogeneous anisotropic media. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 91, 383-412.
12. Grechka V., Pech A. and Tsvankin I. 2002. Multicomponent stacking-velocity tomography for transversely isotropic media. Geophysics 67, 1564-1574.
13. Grechka V. and Tsvankin I. 1998a. 3-D description of normal moveout in anisotropic inhomogeneous media. Geophysics 63, 1079-1092.
14. Grechka V. and Tsvankin I. 1998b. Feasibility of non-hyperbolic moveout inversion in transversely isotropic media. Geophysics 63, 957-969.
15. Grechka V. and Tsvankin I. 1999a. 3-D moveout inversion in azimuthally anisotropic media with lateral velocity variation: Theory and a case study. Geophysics 64, 1202-1218.
16. Grechka V. and Tsvankin I. 1999b. 3-D moveout velocity analysis and parameter estimation for orthorhombic media. Geophysics 64, 820-837.
17. Grechka V., Tsvankin I. and Cohen J.K. 1999. Generalized Dix equation and analytic treatment of normal-moveout velocity for anisotropic media. geophysical Prospecting 47, 117-148.
18. Jenner E. 2001. Azimuthal anisotropy of 3-D compressional wave seismic data, Weyburn Field, Saskatchewan, Canada. PhD. Thesis, Colorado School of Mines.
19. Pech A. and Tsvankin I. 2004. Quartic moveout coefficient for a dipping azimuthally anisotropic layer. Geophysics 69, 699-707.
20. Pech A., Tsvankin I. and Grechka V. 2003. Quartic moveout coefficient: 3D description and application to tilted TI media. Geophysics 68, 1600-1610.
21. Press W.H., Teukolsky S.A., Vetterling W.T. and Flannery B.P. 1987. Numerical Recipes in C. Cambridge University press.
22. Sayers C.M. and Ebrom D.A. 1997. Seismic traveltime analysis for azimuthally anisotropic media: Theory and experiment. Geophysics 36, 1570-1582.
23. Schoenberg M. and Helbig K. 1997. Orthorhombic media: Modeling elastic wave behavior in a vertically fractured earth. Geophysics 62, 1954-1974.
24. Stovas A. and Ursin B. 2004. New travel-time approximations for a transversely anisotropic medium. Journal of Geophysical Engineering 1, 128-133.
25. Thomsen L. 1986. Weak elastic anisotropy. Geophysics 51, 1954-1966.
26. Toldi J., Alkhalifah T., Berthet P., Arnaud J., Williamson P. and Conche B. 1999. Case study of estimation of anisotropy. The Leading Edge 18, 588-594.
27. Tsvankin I. 1997. Anisotropic parameters and P-wave velocity for orthorhombic media. Geophysics 62, 1292-1309.
28. Tsvankin I. 2005. Seismic Signatures and Analysis of Reflection Data in Anisotropic Media (2nd edition). Elsevier Science Publishing Co.
29. Tsvankin I. and Thomsen L. 1994. Non-hyperbolic reflection moveout in anisotropic media. Geophysics 59, 1290-1304.
30. Xu X. and Tsvankin I. 2004. Geometrical-spreading correction for P-waves in layered azimuthally anisotropic media. 74th SEG Meeting, Denver, USA, Expanded Abstracts, 111-114.
31. Xu X., Tsvankin I. and Pech A. 2005. Geometrical spreading of P-waves in horizontally layered, azimuthally anisotropic media. Geophysics 70, D43-D53.