Interference attenuation of a residual portion of seismic data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10649107-B2
Application number	US-201715823702-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2017
Priority date	Jul 1, 2014
Publication date	May 12, 2020
Grant date	May 12, 2020

Abstract

The present disclosure is related to methods, systems, and machine-readable media for interference attenuation of a residual portion of seismic data, such as may be recorded in a marine seismic survey. Recorded seismic data can be separated into a portion attributed to a source and a residual portion. Seismic interference attenuation can be performed on the residual portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
separating, by a machine, recorded seismic data indicative of a subterranean formation into a residual portion and a quantity of first portions that are coherent in a data domain, each first portion attributed to a respective one of a quantity of sources actuated as part of a marine survey designed to generate the seismic data;
performing, by the machine, seismic interference attenuation on the residual portion to remove seismic interference from the residual portion;
separating, by the machine, the seismic interference attenuated residual portion into an updated seismic interference attenuated residual portion and a respective second portion for each of the plurality of sources; and
adding, by the machine, the quantity of first portions and the respective second portion for each of the quantity of sources to yield total separated data that is better indicative of the subterranean formation.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein separating the recorded seismic data comprises separating the recorded seismic data more conservatively than separating the seismic interference attenuated residual portion.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising adding the updated seismic interference attenuated residual portion to the total separated data for each of the quantity of sources.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the recorded seismic data is recorded with a temporal overlap between actuation of the quantity of sources, comprising a plurality of sources, and
wherein the recorded seismic data is recorded from the plurality of sources having dithered actuation.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing seismic interference attenuation comprises removing noise from the residual portion, the noise being coherent in a shot domain and incoherent in a domain where the recorded seismic data was separated.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein separating the recorded seismic data comprises separating the recorded seismic data without using data comprising a location or actuation time of a source contributing to the seismic interference.

7. A system, comprising:
a source separation engine configured to separate recorded seismic data indicative of a subterranean formation into a residual portion and a quantity of first portions that are coherent in a data domain, each first portion attributed to a respective one of a quantity of sources actuated as part of a marine survey designed to generate the seismic data; and
an interference attenuation engine configured to remove seismic interference from the residual portion to yield a seismic interference attenuated residual portion;
wherein the source separation engine is configured to:
separate the seismic interference attenuated residual portion into an updated seismic interference attenuated residual portion and a respective second portion for each of the plurality of sources; and
add the quantity of first portions and the respective second portion for each of the quantity of sources to yield total separated data that is better indicative of the subterranean formation.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the source separation engine is configured to separate the recorded seismic data more conservatively than the seismic interference attenuated residual portion.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the source separation engine is configured to separate the recorded seismic data without using data comprising a location or actuation time of a source contributing to the seismic interference.

10. The system of claim 7 , wherein the source separation engine is configured to add the updated seismic interference attenuated residual portion to the total separated data for each of the quantity of sources.

11. The system of claim 7 , wherein the recorded seismic data is recorded with a temporal overlap between actuation of the quantity of sources, comprising a plurality of sources, and
wherein the recorded seismic data is recorded from the plurality of sources having dithered actuation.

12. The system of claim 7 , wherein the interference attenuation engine being configured to perform seismic interference attenuation comprises the interference attenuation engine being configured to remove noise from the residual portion, the noise being coherent in a shot domain and incoherent in a domain where the recorded seismic data was separated.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to cause a computing system to:
separate recorded seismic data indicative of a subterranean formation into a residual portion and a quantity of first portions that are coherent in a data domain, each first portion attributed to a respective one of a quantity of sources actuated as part of a marine survey designed to generate the seismic data;
perform seismic interference attenuation on the residual portion to remove seismic interference from the residual portion;
separate the seismic interference attenuated residual portion into an updated seismic interference attenuated residual portion and a respective second portion for each of the plurality of sources; and
add the quantity of first portions and the respective second portion for each of the quantity of sources to yield total separated data that is better indicative of the subterranean formation.

14. The medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions to separate the recorded seismic data comprise instructions to separate the recorded seismic data more conservatively than separating the seismic interference attenuated residual portion.

15. The medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions to add the updated seismic interference attenuated residual portion to the total separated data for each of the quantity of sources.

16. The medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions to record the seismic data with a temporal overlap between actuation of the quantity of sources, comprising a plurality of sources, and
record the recorded seismic data from the plurality of sources having dithered actuation.

17. The medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions to perform the seismic interference attenuation comprise instructions to remove noise from the residual portion, the noise being coherent in a shot domain and incoherent in a domain where the recorded seismic data was separated.

18. The medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions to separate the recorded seismic data comprise instructions to separate the recorded seismic data without using data comprising a location or actuation time of a source contributing to the seismic interference.

19. A method of manufacturing a geophysical data product, the method comprising:
separating recorded seismic data indicative of a subterranean formation into a residual portion and a quantity of first portions that are coherent in a data domain, each first portion attributed to a respective one of a quantity of sources actuated as part of a marine survey designed to generate the seismic data;
performing seismic interference attenuation on the residual portion to remove seismic interference from the residual portion;
separating the seismic interference attenuated residual portion into an updated seismic interference attenuated residual portion and a respective second portion for each of the plurality of sources;
adding the quantity of first portions and the respective second portion for each of the quantity of sources to yield total separated data that is better indicative of the subterranean formation; and
recording the total separated data

Assignees

• Pgs Geophysical As

Inventors

• Baardman Rolf H
• Van Borselen Roald G
• Fishburn Steven
• Ryder Alan

Classifications

• G01V1/364 Primary

  Seismic filtering (G01V1/37 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G01V2210/32

  Noise reduction · CPC title

• G01V2210/3248

  Incoherent noise, e.g. white noise · CPC title

• G01V1/30 Primary

  Analysis (G01V1/50 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G01V1/38

  specially adapted for water-covered areas (G01V1/28 takes precedence) · CPC title