Well-to-well tomography

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2006-05-16

2006-05-16

Keith, Jack (Department: 3663)

Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices

Seismic prospecting

Land-reflection type

C367S038000, C367S056000, C367S073000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07046581

ABSTRACT:
A method of obtaining a spatial model of a property of part of a subsurface formation located between underground seismic receivers in which at least two sets of pairs of seismic receivers are utilized and one pair of receivers is used to record a signal from a seimic source and obtaining a response by solving (s11(−t){circle around (x)}s21(t))=r11,21(t){circle around (x)}(s11(−t){circle around (x)}s21(t)), wherein the symbol {circle around (x)} denotes convolution and wherein s11(−t) is the time-reverse of the signal s11(t). A path-related attribute is selected from transmission response r11,21(t) that corresponds to the property of the subsurface formation and a tomographic reconstruction technique is applied to the path-related attribute to obtain the spatial model of the property of part of the subsurface formation.

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