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Multi-wavefield seismic detection method and system based on construction noise of shield machine

A multi-wavefield seismic detection method and system based on construction noise of a shield machine. Multi-wavefield seismic information such as a body wave and a surface wave formed during propagation of a seismic wave generated by excitation in a stratum is obtained by using noise information caused by the construction of a shield machine as a seismic source, a stratum velocity model along a tunnel is constructed through joint inversion, and reflection wave information or the like is used for migration imaging, to eventually implement relatively accurate detection of a geological condition in front of a tunnel face of shield construction.

Migrating a Horizontal Component of a Wavefield
20170371054 · 2017-12-28 · ·

A horizontal component of marine seismic survey data from an ocean bottom seismic survey can be migrated using a primary wave velocity model. The horizontal component can comprise a shear converted wave. An image of a subsurface location can based on the migration can be produced. Migrating the horizontal component can comprise wave-equation migrating the horizontal component, where the horizontal component is input as both a source wavefield and a receiver wavefield.

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING SEISMIC WAVE INFORMATION, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
20230204808 · 2023-06-29 ·

A method and device determine seismic wave information, and a computer readable storage medium implements a method for determining seismic wave information. According to the solution, the method includes determining shallow and deep geophones from top to bottom in a vertical depth direction; determining, according to horizontal component signals acquired by each of the shallow geophones and a preset function, a polarization direction of the horizontal component signal acquired to obtain an azimuth of the shallow geophone; determining, according to an event inclination angle of a scalar signal in horizontal component signals acquired by each of the deep geophones, and a correlation between the deep geophone and a forward adjacent geophone in horizontal component signal based on the event inclination angle, an azimuth of the deep geophone; and determining, according to the horizontal component signals and the azimuth of each of geophones, a radial and a tangential component of the target seismic wave.

Attenuation of guided waves using polarization filtering

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for attenuating guided waves in seismic data using polarization filtering are provided. A raw hydrophone component and raw geophone component of multicomponent seismic data may be scaled using a constant scalar to enhance the ellipticity ratio of guided waves. Polarization filtering based on the ellipticity ratio may be applied within a velocity constraint to the scaled hydrophone and vertical geophone components to attenuate the guided waves. Additionally or alternatively, polarization filtering based on the tilt angle may be applied within a velocity constraint to the raw hydrophone and vertical geophone components to attenuate the guided waves. Polarization filtering may be applied to a raw hydrophone component and raw vertical geophone component of seismic data to attenuate Scholte waves before attenuation of the guided waves.

Microseismic Processing Using Fiber-Derived Flow Data

A method, downhole tool, and system, of which the method includes deploying a perforation charge into a wellbore, signaling the perforation charge to detonate, deploying a cable into the wellbore, determining a fluid flow rate at a predetermined location in the wellbore using the cable, and determining whether the perforation charge detonated at the predetermined location based on the fluid flow rate.

Retrofit automatic seismic wave detector and valve shutoff device

A retrofit valve shutoff device is provided that comprises a coupling key for coupling with an actuator of a shutoff valve on a fluid supply line, an inertial measurement unit for generating one or more signals in response to arrival of seismic waves, a motor for rotating the coupling key and the actuator of the shutoff valve, and a processing unit for receiving the one or more signals from the inertial measurement unit, analyzing the received signals to determine whether to close the shutoff valve, and sending a signal to the motor to rotate the coupling key and the actuator of the shutoff valve to close the shutoff valve based on the analysis of the received signals.

Depth-continuous estimation of the elastic tensor using single depth borehole sonic measurements

A method and system for estimating a full elastic tensor. The method may comprise taking a measurement for compressional wave sonic data and cross-dipole shear data with a sonic logging tool at a first location as cross-dipole data, processing the compressional wave sonic data to produce a compressional wave slowness (P), and processing the cross-dipole shear data to produce a fast horizontal polarized shear wave slowness (SH) and a slow quazi-vertical shear wave slowness (qSV) as a function of depth. The method may further comprise setting an initial guess for at least five constants of the full elastic tensor for Vertical Transversely Isotropy (VTI) symmetry, determining a modeled slowness surfaces from the full elastic tensor, and comparing the modeled slowness surfaces with measured values of the P, the SH, and the qSV. The method may be performed by a system comprising a sonic logging tool and an information handling system.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING S-WAVE VELOCITIES BY LEARNING WELL LOGS

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for estimating S-wave velocities by learning well logs, whereby the method includes a model formation step of forming an S-wave estimation model to output S-wave velocities corresponding to measured depth when the well logs are input based on train data sets including train data having values of multiple factors included in the well logs, the values being arranged corresponding to measured depth, and label data having S-wave velocities corresponding to measured depth as answers, and an S-wave velocity estimation step of inputting unseen data having values of multiple factors included in well logs acquired from a well at which S-wave velocities are to be estimated, the values being arranged corresponding to measured depth, to the S-wave estimation model to estimate S-wave velocities corresponding to measured depth.

METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETERMINE THE AZIMUTHAL ORIENTATION OF BOREHOLE SEISMOMETER SENSOR USING LONG PERIOD SURFACE WAVES IN MICROSEISMS
20230176241 · 2023-06-08 ·

The present invention is a method to determine an azimuthal orientation of a borehole seismometer sensor performed by a computing device using a control server having a database and an arithmetic function, the computing device performing a method to determine the azimuthal orientation of a borehole seismometer sensor using long-period surface waves in microseisms, including step S100 in which a data collection unit 100 collects continuous waveform data recorded by a borehole seismometer and a reference seismometer; step S200 in which a frequency band setting unit 200 sets a frequency band to be analyzed in the collected continuous waveform data; step S300 in which a filtering unit 300 performs bandpass filtering on the frequency band to be analyzed; step S400 in which a waveform dividing unit 400 divides seismic waveform into waveform segments with preset time units; step S500 in which a phase shift unit 500 shifts the phase of the divided vertical component waveforms by 90°; step S600 in which a waveform calculation unit 600 combines the divided N′ and E′ component seismic waveforms to calculate horizontal components for rotation angles waveform between 0 and 360° from the N′ orientation; step S700 in which a correlation calculation unit 700 calculates a correlation coefficient between the horizontal and vertical component waveforms; step S800 in which a Rayleigh wave orientation determination unit 800 repeats steps S500 to S700 for each divided time domain; step S900 in which an orientation comparison unit 900 performs steps S400 to S800, respectively, with respect to the borehole seismometer data for which the sensor orientation is to be determined and the reference seismometer data for which the sensor orientation is already known; and step S1000 in which a result calculation unit 1000 averages 0 determined for each time period to calculate a final result.

ACOUSTIC ANISOTROPY LOG VISUALIZATION

An acoustic logging method includes obtaining first horizontal transverse isotropy (“HTI”) angles resulting from a time domain HTI algorithm. The method further includes obtaining one or more second HTI angles resulting from a frequency domain HTI algorithm. The method further includes generating a first HTI anisotropy log including a relative angle log based on the first and second HTI angles. The method further includes generating a first color map of the first HTI anisotropy log and displaying the first color map.