Dr Andreas Ehinger

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Institut Français du Pétrole

• Dr Andreas Ehinger
• Institut Français du Pétrole

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Institut Français du Pétrole

• We are French,

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Institut Français du Pétrole

• We are French, we work in oil and gas,

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Institut Français du Pétrole

• We are French, we work in oil and gas, but
  .. we do neither belong to TOTAL, nor to
  CGG, nor to anybody else

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Institut Français du Pétrole

• We are French, we work in oil and gas, but
  .. we do neither belong to TOTAL, nor to
  CGG, nor to anybody else
• We are a large, independent, government-funded
  institution for industry-oriented research
• upstream (exploration and production)
• downstream (refining, petrochemicals)
• motors

www.ifp.fr
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Institut Français du Pétrole

• 1800 people, 230 PhDs and postdocs
• 290 M budget
• 12600 living patents
• IFP-School and IFP-Training

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Institut Français du Pétrole

• Industry-oriented research
• spin-off companies
• Technip / Axens / BeicipFranlab
• participation
• Imagine / Geoservice
• partnerships
• GXT / Schlumberger / Paradigm / CGG and many
  others ...
• and now PGC
• JIPs
• bilateral contracts
• 30 of IFPs budget does not come from government

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Exploration - Production
Technology business units operate by project
37,2 107 M
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Geophysics Division

• 32 permanent researchers
• 8 technicians
• 7 PhD students
• Processing
• Well seismic
• Imaging
• Reservoir characterization
• Monitoring
• Rock Physics

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IFP imaging history

• The Marmousi experience - 1989
• 15 years of research in
• tomographic velocity model determination
• Kirchhoff and wave equation prestack depth
  migration

Lailly, Versteeg and Grau, EAGE 1990
PSI and KIM research consortia1990-2001
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IFP imaging history - WE PSDM

• 1989 - 2D numerical schemes for one-way wave
  field extrapolation (paraxial wave
  equation) - 2D shot record PSDM
• 1994 - 2D common offset PSDM
• 1994 - 2D constrained least squares migration
• 1995 - 3D paraxial extrapolator via
  original splitting technique - 3D shot
  record and plane wave PSDM
• 2001 - Implementation and analysis of
  extrapolator zoo

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IFP imaging history - model building

• 1990 - Prestack traveltime tomography
• theoretically sound way to flatten image gathers
• 2D implementation
• 1992 - SMART way to access traveltimes
• migration - demigration strategy
• 1995 - 3D tomography software
• tomography adapted model
• 1998 - Validation studies (Elf EU KIMASI project
  with NorskHydro, Shell, BP-Amoco BP)
• Extensions
• anisotropy, constraints, converted waves, well
  seismic, ...

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IFP imaging history - Kirchhoff

• 1990 - Can we image complex structures with
  first arrival traveltimes
• 1996 - 2D-2C true amplitude migration
• 1999 - 3D true amplitude angle domain
  migration (with CGG)
• 2002 - 3D bottom-up true amplitude migration
• efficient implementation
• complex structures
• multi-valued traveltimes
• dedicated amplitude weighting schemes and
  filters
• open framework
• anisotropy
• converted waves
• ..

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PGC - IFP

• A promising partnership, bringing together
• top scientists, with more than a decade of
  research in WE and Kirchhoff PSDM and velocity
  model building
• and
• top geophysical software developers, with more
  than a decade of track record in delivering
  first class geophysical software
• We are committed to delivering a first class
  productfor serving the geophysical imaging
  community