Source footprint elimination in full-waveform inversion by model extension: Application to elastic guided waves recorded by distributed acoustic sensing in unconventional reservoir

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Main Authors: Bader, Milad, Clapp, Robert G., Nihei, Kurt T., Biondi, Biondo
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Published: 2023
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author Bader, Milad
Clapp, Robert G.
Nihei, Kurt T.
Biondi, Biondo
author_facet Bader, Milad
Clapp, Robert G.
Nihei, Kurt T.
Biondi, Biondo
contents Source footprints represent an inherent problem to full-waveform inversion (FWI). They are caused by the high data sensitivity to the model parameters in the vicinity of the seismic sources and can be exacerbated by source-related errors in the modeling operator. We propose a simple, effective, and efficient method to remove source footprints in FWI when sources are located near or inside the volume of interest while robustly updating the model in their vicinity. The method uses illumination redundancy and extends the model along sources. Each source updates one component of the extended model, and a regularization term ensures that these components are mutually consistent, except for their respective footprints. We illustrate the effectiveness of our method on the elastic inversion of synthetic guided waves. We show its robustness in the presence of source-related errors and its superiority over other well-known approaches, such as illumination compensation by inverse pseudo-Hessian and gradient preconditioning. We apply the method to a field distributed acoustic sensing dataset with elastic guided waves generated by perforation shots in an unconventional shale reservoir. The method is able to retrieve localized reservoir anomalies with higher elastic velocities, indicating possible lower pore pressure or tighter shale regions.
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spellingShingle Source footprint elimination in full-waveform inversion by model extension: Application to elastic guided waves recorded by distributed acoustic sensing in unconventional reservoir
Bader, Milad
Clapp, Robert G.
Nihei, Kurt T.
Biondi, Biondo
Geophysics
Source footprints represent an inherent problem to full-waveform inversion (FWI). They are caused by the high data sensitivity to the model parameters in the vicinity of the seismic sources and can be exacerbated by source-related errors in the modeling operator. We propose a simple, effective, and efficient method to remove source footprints in FWI when sources are located near or inside the volume of interest while robustly updating the model in their vicinity. The method uses illumination redundancy and extends the model along sources. Each source updates one component of the extended model, and a regularization term ensures that these components are mutually consistent, except for their respective footprints. We illustrate the effectiveness of our method on the elastic inversion of synthetic guided waves. We show its robustness in the presence of source-related errors and its superiority over other well-known approaches, such as illumination compensation by inverse pseudo-Hessian and gradient preconditioning. We apply the method to a field distributed acoustic sensing dataset with elastic guided waves generated by perforation shots in an unconventional shale reservoir. The method is able to retrieve localized reservoir anomalies with higher elastic velocities, indicating possible lower pore pressure or tighter shale regions.
title Source footprint elimination in full-waveform inversion by model extension: Application to elastic guided waves recorded by distributed acoustic sensing in unconventional reservoir
topic Geophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14130