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Seismic reflection data contain information at two very different length scales. The long wavelength or low-frequency information is derived primarily from move-out velocity analysis and provides information on the order of kilometers (i.e., ~1 to 2 km). The short wavelength (high-frequency) information comes from reflection amplitudes and/or changes in those amplitudes with offset (AVO) and provides information at scales of tens of meters (i.e., ~10 to 250m). Between these two length scales is a gap. This missing information (between 1 and 6 Hz) causes a general uncertainty in all seismic-reflection inversions and creates a challenge for full-waveform inversion methods to properly converge without getting stuck in local mathematical minima. This problem is further compounded in regions with complex structure (e.g., basalt flows, sills and dykes, salt bodies, fold and thrust belts, etc.) where it can be difficult to obtain the long-wavelength information reliably from the data, thereby leading to poor imaging. One possible solution for both of these problems is to use local, regional and teleseismic (far-away) earthquakes as a source of low-frequency energy, exploiting the Earth’s naturally occurring seismicity. This talk describes a field experiment over the LaBarge gas field in Wyoming that was designed to test this idea.
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Rebecca Saltzer is a geophysical advisor for ExxonMobil Development Company. After graduating with a BA in geology, she worked in finance for several years, becoming a bond analyst on Wall Street for Lehman brothers. She returned to graduate school and received a Ph.D. from MIT in global seismology in 2001. She spent the following nine years at ExxonMobil Research Company developing proprietary inversion capabilities and led a team that successfully developed joint inversion of seismic, gravity, and electromagnetic data using rock-physics based constraints. She primarily supports the Gulf of Mexico Development team, providing well planning, rock physics, reservoir characterization and general geophysical advice.
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