Acquisition and imaging are essential components to get a glimpse of what lies beneath the ocean floor, and the techniques provide valuable data for understanding the subsurface geology, characterizing the fluids, and identifying potential reservoirs.
In the two The Multi-Deep Dive sessions at the NCS Exploration 2023 conference, we will focus on the latest advancements in acquisition and imaging technologies, which apply to near-field as well as frontier exploration. The industry shares its focus on enhancing the understanding of the subsurface while improving efficiency and reducing costs and carbon emissions.
EMGS will set the scene with their examination of the potential of multi-physical approaches and how this could help to de-risk exploration. Are you more interested in case studies? SLB will demonstrate the potential for higher seismic acquisition efficiency, especially in busy areas such as the NCS, by successfully dealing with seismic interference at the imaging stage.
The first part of the session will conclude on the importance of technology development enabling step change velocity data quality further improving the subsurface imaging, courtesy of CGG.
The session resumes on the second conference day. Continuing on the improved imaging and characterization, the first talk of day 2 by PGS will focus on how data-driven simultaneous inversion has the potential for significant turnaround reduction while improving resolution and amplitude balancing.
Interpretation of the acquired images is the next natural step, and the focus of the following presentation by CGG is using deep neural networks to again improve turnaround.
We will end the session by discussing yet another interesting methodology. SLB is presenting a case study on high-resolution seismic data tied at the borehole, providing a wider illumination and better delineation of the faults for field-level interpretation.
Lots of very interesting developments that we are looking forward to sharing during the Multi-Deep Dive sessions at the NCS Exploration 2023 conference in Oslo!
CARINE ROALKVAM
Session moderator and Regional Geophysical Advisor at PGS