Past,present and future of seismic migration imaging
Sa Liming1, Yang Wuyang2,3, Du Qizheng4, Wang Chengxiang5, Zhou Hui2, Zhang Houzhu6
1. China National Petroleum Corporation, Beijing 100007, China;
2. China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China;
3. Northwest Branch, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, PetroChina, Lanzhou 730020, China;
4. China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong 266580, China;
5. BGP Inc., CNPC, Zhuozhou, Hebei 072750, China;
6. Houston, Texas, USA
Abstract：In this paper, we first give a brief review of the history of seismic imaging. Then we discuss the common used migration approaches such as acoustic migrations on P-wave velocity, elastic migrations on both P- and S-wave velocity, anisotropic migrations on three weak anisotropy parameters, and visco-elastic migration on viscosity parameters. Meanwhile, we look at velocity model building and computer hardware developments which are very important for seismic migration. After that, we state some applications of seismic migration imaging in the aspects of structural interpretation, parameter inversion, amplitude attribute extraction, joint analysis of well logging and seismic attributes, and even seismic acquisition design. Finally we anticipate more magnificent achievements of seismic imaging based on elastic, complex anisotropy and visco-elastic prestack depth migrations in the near future era of cloud computing and massive data.
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