Changes in reservoir properties resulting from extracting hydrocarbons and injecting fluid are critical to optimize production. These properties can be characterized using waveform inversions of time-lapse seismic data. The conventional approach for analysis using waveform tomography is to take the difference of seismic inversion obtained using baseline and subsequent time-lapse datasets that a...

In some cases, the variations in the subsurface rock property with time can be observed during fluid flow process because of changes in stress, pore pressure, temperature, degree of consolidation, and fluid content. Detecting these changes via their influence on the in situ elastic properties serves as the basis for timelapse monitoring. Acquisition and processing of high-fidelity time-lapse se...

Abstract The application of an active seismic method for detecting the source location underground nuclear explosion (UNE) is ongoing field research. objective in On-Site Inspection (OSI) to detect static signatures such as cavity created by UNE. Along with characteristic signatures, UNEs produce dynamic phenomena groundwater mounding, which gradually revert pre-test conditions. These are obser...

We present results of an on-going project to assess the applicability in reflection seismology of emerging super resolution techniques pioneered in digital photography. Our approach involves: (1) construction of a forward model connecting low resolution seismic images to high resolution ones, and (2) solution of a Tikhonov-regularized ill conditioned optimization problem to construct a high res...

Carbonate reservoir rocks of different pore structure have quite distinct and detectable 4D seismic signatures. Using three defined pore structure types (PST), these seismic signatures are correlated with the permeability patterns of carbonate rocks. In both the high-permeability PST3 and intermediate-permeability PST2 regions, gas injection is preferred than water injection for effective 4D se...

This article addresses the question whether time-lapse seismic reflection techniques can be used to follow and quantify the effects of solution salt mining. Specifically, the production of magnesium salts as mined in the north of the Netherlands is considered. The use of seismic time-lapse techniques to follow such a production has not previously been investigated. For hydrocarbon production an...

Marine-controlled source electromagnetics (CSEM) have been extensively applied to various exploration scenarios worldwide. However, its perceived value and cost relative seismic the scarcity of realistic case studies limited industry’s interest in time-lapse reservoir-monitoring (4D) applications. A feasible way make demand for CSEM 4D-monitoring programs would be increase information reduce su...