Scientific Contributions Oil and Gas
Vol 48 No 4 (2025)

The use of the Common Offset of the Common Reflection Surface (CO-CRS) for Velocity Analysis and Data Preconditioning

Wahyu Triyoso (Global Geophysics Group, Institut Teknologi Bandung)
Fernando Lawrens Hutapea (Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2025

Abstract

This study introduces a Common Offset (CO) extension of the Common Reflection Surface (CRS) method to address seismic imaging challenges in complex geological settings and with noisy data. This CO-CRS approach aims to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio and overcome the limitations of conventional preconditioning techniques that rely on accurate parameterization. Building upon established work on zero-offset CRS (ZO-CRS), the CO method generates regularized prestack data suitable for both time- and depth-domain processing by interpolating missing offsets using a local hyperbolic approximation. Ultimately, this study utilizes CO-CRS for enhanced velocity analysis and data preconditioning prior to performing prestack time migration (PSTM). In this study, the CO-CRS is then used for velocity analysis and prestack time migration. The results show that prestack CO-CRS data yield improved time-migrated seismic images, and we suggest extending the application to the depth domain. To achieve a reliable velocity model for imaging, recursive seismic inversion (RSI) is applied to derive the velocity model using the PSTM stack and a velocity interval time, based on CRS semblance velocity analysis. Furthermore, the prestack depth migration (PSDM) is then tested. The depth-imaging results are reliable, and it can be concluded that combining the benefits of the CRS noise-reduction feature with more accurate velocity analysis and prestack migration can provide enhanced capabilities.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

SCOG

Publisher

Subject

Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Bioengineering Energy

Description

The Scientific Contributions for Oil and Gas is the official journal of the Testing Center for Oil and Gas LEMIGAS for the dissemination of information on research activities, technology engineering development and laboratory testing in the oil and gas field. Manuscripts in English are accepted from ...