Joint Prestack Depth Migration of Surface Seismic and DAS-VSP Data in the OVT Domain
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Abstract
Surface seismic data often suffer from limited bandwidth and uneven illumination, which degrade PSDM (prestack depth migration) in deep and structurally complex settings. VSP (vertical seismic profiling), particularly DAS-VSP, provides a higher signal-to-noise ratio and richer high-frequency content near the wellbore but has a limited lateral imaging aperture. To exploit the complementary strengths of these two observation systems, we propose an OVT domain (offset vector tile) joint Kirchhoff prestack depth migration workflow that integrates surface seismic and VSP data within a unified depth domain framework. The workflow includes wavelet (amplitude–phase) matching, consistent datuming, joint well–surface tomographic velocity model building using both surface CIG (common image gather) residual moveout and VSP first-arrival constraints, efficient travel time table construction based on 3D eikonal solvers, OVT domain joint migration, azimuth-dependent CIG depth correction for anisotropy, and ray-based illumination compensation for amplitude balancing. Synthetic tests demonstrate that the proposed method improves reflector continuity and increases the effective bandwidth of the joint image relative to surface-only PSDM. A field application in the northwest Sichuan Basin further shows that the joint imaging better matches well synthetics in the target interval, increasing the correlation coefficient from 0.753 (surface-only) and 0.738 (VSP-only) to 0.787 (joint) while reducing inter-azimuth CIG depth residuals to within 3 m after anisotropy correction. These results indicate that OVT domain joint imaging can enhance thin-bed resolution and near-well structural delineation, providing a practical multi-source data fusion solution for high-fidelity depth imaging in complex reservoirs.
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OpenAlex topics: Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques · Seismic Waves and Analysis · Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
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Affiliations
Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
Exploration and Development Research Institute, PetroChina Southwest Oil & Gasfield Company, Chengdu 610213, China
School of Geophysics and Information Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Funding
Scientific Research Capability Support Project for Young Faculty · Exploration and Development Research Institute, PetroChina Southwest Oil & Gasfield Company
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