Internal multiple elimination: Can we trust an acoustic approximation?

Author:

Reinicke Christian1ORCID,Dukalski Marcin2ORCID,Wapenaar Kees3ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Aramco Overseas Company B.V., Informaticalaan 6-12, 2628 ZD Delft, The Netherlands and Delft University of Technology, Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands.(corresponding author).

2. Aramco Overseas Company B.V., Informaticalaan 6-12, 2628 ZD Delft, The Netherlands.

3. Delft University of Technology, Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands.

Abstract

Correct handling of strong elastic internal multiples remains a challenge for seismic imaging. Methods aimed at eliminating them are currently limited by monotonicity violations, a lack of a-priori knowledge about mode conversions, or unavailability of multicomponent sources and receivers for not only particle velocities but also the traction vector. Most of these challenges vanish in acoustic media such that Marchenko-equation-based methods are able, in theory, to remove multiples exactly (within a certain wavenumber-frequency band). In practice, however, when applied to (elastic) field data, mode conversions are unaccounted for. Aiming to support a recently published marine field data study, we build a representative synthetic model. For this setting, we demonstrate that mode conversions can have a substantial impact on the recovered multiple-free reflection response. Nevertheless, the images are significantly improved by acoustic multiple elimination. Moreover, after migration the imprint of elastic effects is considerably weaker and unlikely to alter the seismic interpretation.

Funder

H2020 European Research Council

Publisher

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Subject

Geochemistry and Petrology,Geophysics

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