Atenuação de múltiplas pelo método WHLP-CRS

Abstract

In the sedimentary basins of the Amazon region, the generation and accumulation of hydrocarbons is related to the presence of diabase sills. These rocks present a great impedance contrast to the host rocks what turns to cause the generation of internal and external multiples with similar amplitudes the primary events. These multiples can predominate over the information originated at the deeper interfaces, making more difficult the processing, interpretation and imaging of the seismic section. In the present research work, we conducted de multiple attenuation in synthetic commonsource (CS) seismic sections by combining the Wiener-Hopf-Levinson for prediction (WHLP) and the common-reflection-surface-stack (CRS) methods. We denominated this new combination under the name and label of WHLP-CRS method. The deconvolution operator is calculated from the real amplitudes of the seismic section trace-by-trace, and this strategy represents efficiency in the process of multiples attenuation. Multiples identification is carried out in the zero-offset (ZO) section simulated by the CRS-stack applying the periodicity criteria between the primary and its repeated multiples. The wavefront attributes, obtained by the CRS-stack, are employed to move the shifting windows in the timespace domain, and these windows are used to calculate the WHLP-CRS operator for the multiple attenuation carried out in the CS sections. The development of the present research had several intentions as: (first) avoid the inconveniencies of the processed ZO section; (second) design and apply operators in the CS configuration; (third) extend the WHL method to curved interface; (fourth) use the good results obtained in the new CRS-stack technology whose application extends to migration, tomography, inversion and AVO.