The computation of a dynamic displacement field between pairs of seismic traces has numerous geophysical applications including the estimation of displacement vectors in time lapse seismic, Pto S-wave image registration and residual moveout correction. In this paper, I present a cross-correlation based methodology for the estimation of small time displacements between signals followed by stretc...

Accurate integration of flow simulation and seismic modeling is one of the cornerstones of reliable time-lapse (4D) seismic monitoring. However, the question which scales flow simulations need to resolve to accurately capture reservoir changes during production and whether these scales are resolvable in seismic data is an open one. The answer impacts computational costs and our ability to predi...

I grant The Pennsylvania State University the non-exclusive right to use this work for the University's own purposes and to make single copies of the work available to the public on a not-for-profit basis if copies are not otherwise available. ______________________ Tin-Wai Lee iii ABSTRACT Time-lapse (4D) inversion is a stand-alone method that does not require prior time-lapse seismic processi...

Effective pressure effect on porous reservoir formation is one of the most important factors contributing to time-lapse seismic attribute changes. Our research shows that the existing commonly used models tend to overestimate effective pressure effect at high effective pressure, which might cause significant misinterpretation of 4D seismic data. Based on analysis of a large quantity of lab data...

Adjoint-state methods (ASMs) have proven successful for calculating the gradients of the functionals commonly found in geophysical inverse problems. The 3D image-domain formulation of the seismic velocity estimation problem uses imperfections in 3D migrated images to form an objective function, which is minimized using a combined ASM plus line-search approach. While image-domain methods are les...

Adjoint-state methods (ASMs) have proven successful for calculating the gradients of the functionals commonly found in geophysical inverse problems. The 3D ASM imagedomain tomography (IDT) formulation of the seismic velocity estimation problem highlights imperfections in migrated image volumes and, using appropriate penalty functions (e.g., differential semblance), forms an objective function t...

We present a method for registration of time-lapse seismic images based on the local similarity attribute. We define registration as an automatic point-by-point alignment of time-lapse images. Stretching and squeezing a monitor image and computing its local similarity to the base image allows us to detect an optimal registration even in the presence of significant velocity changes in the overbu...

SUMMARY In the northern part of The Netherlands the magnesium salts carnalite and bischofite are mined in a deep solution mine. For optimal production and also for environmental impact such as subsidence, it is vital to understand the process of salt production. To this aim, it is studied whether seismic in time-lapse mode may help to visualize and quantify the changes due to the salt productio...