Structural delineation at the Los Humeros geothermal field, Mexico, by P-wave reflection retrieval from noise

Ambient noise seismic reflection interferometry at the Los Humeros geothermal field, Mexico

Integration of results from active seismic, passive seismic and well data reduces the uncertainties of several subsurface parameters that are of interest for cost-effective geothermal production operations in Los Humeros. In this study, we present results from the application of ambient noise seismic interferometry (ANSI) to retrieve zero-offset...

Controlled-source seismic reflection interferometry: Virtual-source retrieval, survey infill and identification of surface multiples

The theory of seismic interferometry predicts that the cross-correlation (and possibly summation) between seismic recordings at two separate receivers allows the retrieval of an estimate of the inter-receiver response, or Green's function, from a virtual source at one of the receiver positions. Ideally, the recordings must consist of the...

Crustal-scale reflection imaging and interpretation by passive seismic interferometry using local earthquakes

We have developed an application of passive seismic interferometry (SI) using P-wave coda of local earthquakes for the purpose of crustal-scale reflection imaging. We processed the reflection gathers retrieved from SI following a standard seismic processing in exploration seismology. We applied SI to the P-wave coda using crosscorrelation,...

Interferometric identification of surface-related multiples

The theory of seismic interferometry redicts that crosscorrelations of recorded seismic res onses at two receivers yield an estimate of the interreceiver seismic res onse. The interferometric rocess a lied to surface-reflection data involves the summation, over sources, of crosscorrelated traces, and it allows retrieval of an estimate of the...

Time-lapse CO2 monitoring using ambient-noise seismic interferometry: A feasibility study from Ketzin, Germany

Feasibility of retrieving time-lapse reflection signals using ambient-noise seismic interferometry at Ketzin, Germany

Ambient-noise seismic interferometry (ANSI) applied to passive body-wave measurements retrieves an estimate of the reflection response as if from a source at a receiver position. Often, the limited compliance with theoretical assumptions causes erroneous absolute amplitudes of the retrieved physical reflections, and additional artefacts....

Reflection-response retrieval with seismic interferometry by multidimensional deconvolution from surface reflection data

Seismic interferometry (SI) allows retrieval of virtual-source responses at positions of receivers, where no actual source is shot, by cross-correlating (CC) the seismic responses between receivers. The theory requires a boundary of subsurface sources to retrieve the surface reflection response. With reflection data acquired with both sources...

Studying CO2 storage with ambient-noise seismic interferometry: A combined numerical feasibility study and field-data example for Ketzin, Germany

Seismic interferometry applied to ambient-noise measurements allows the retrieval of the seismic response between pairs of receivers. We studied ambient-noise seismic interferometry (ANSI) to retrieve time-lapse reflection responses from a reservoir during CO2 geologic sequestration, using the case of the experimental site of Ketzin, Germany. We...

A method to suppress spurious multiples in virtual-source gathers retrieved using seismic interferometry with reflection data

Seismic interferometry applied to surface reflection data (with source and receivers at the surface) allows to retrieve virtual-source gathers at the position of receivers, where no source was shot. As a result of the crosscorrelation of all primary and multiple reflections, the virtual-source gathers contain retrieved physical reflections as...

Identification and elimination of surface-related multiples using seismic interferometry with active sources

A feasibility study of time-lapse seismic noise interferometry for CO2 monitoring at Ketzin