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Local events based fast RTM surface-offset gathers via dip-guided interpolation
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  • Yang Zhao,
  • Fenglin Niu,
  • Lei Fu,
  • Cheng Cheng,
  • jinhong chen,
  • Shoudong Huo
Yang Zhao
China University of Petroleum,

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Fenglin Niu
Rice University
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Lei Fu
2Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University,
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Cheng Cheng
University of California, Berkeley
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jinhong chen
Aramco Services Company: Aramco Research Center - Houston
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Shoudong Huo
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
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Abstract

Reverse Time Migration (RTM) Surface Offset Gathers (SOGs) are demonstrated to deliver more superior residual dip information than ray-based approaches. It appears more powerful in complex geological settings, such as salt areas. Still, the computational cost of constructing RTM SOGs is a big challenge in applying it to 3D field data. To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel method using dips of local events as a guide for RTM gather interpolation. The residual-dip information of the SOGs is created by connecting local events from depth-domain to time-domain via ray tracing. The proposed method is validated by a synthetic experiment and a field example. It mitigates the computational cost by an order of magnitude while producing comparable results as fully computed RTM SOGs.
30 Mar 2021Published in Petroleum Science. 10.1007/s12182-021-00557-y