Suppressing multiples using an adaptive multichannel filter based on L1-norm

Seismic shear waves have been employed in oil and gas exploration for decades. A 2D seismic shear wave inline was acquired in Sanhu area, located in the Qaidam Basin in western China. Although the acquired shear wave data exhibits high resolution and comparable bandwidth to the compressional wave, it is contaminated by various types of noise, including linear noise, single-frequency noise, and especially internal multiples. Internal multiples seriously compromise the primary reflections at both near-offset and far-offset and are difficult to be suppressed. This paper presents a case study of noise attenuation for the seismic shear wave. Firstly, single-frequency noise and linear noise are attenuated through filtering methods. Then, two methods (the Radon transform and the frequency-wavenumber (F-K) filtering) are evaluated for their effectiveness in multiple suppression and amplitude preservation. The results indicate that both methods successfully reduce long-period multiples at far-offset, enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio. We show that F-K filtering retains the characteristic ‘strong-weak-strong’ amplitude variation in the SV-SV wave data gather, making it preferable for subsequent AVO (amplitude variation with offset) analysis and inversion. Finally, a wave-equation-based MSI (multiple suppression inversion) method is used to suppress near-offset internal multiples. This involves iteratively predicting internal multiples and adaptively subtracting them from the original data. Stacked sections of different offsets are compared to demonstrate de-multiple result, and the result is also validated by the improvement of well calibration with the seismic shear wave data.

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Suppressing multiples using an adaptive multichannel filter based on L1-norm

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