De-risking Frontier Exploration Prospects through the Use of Full-waveform Inversion Velocity Models

The East Coast Marine Area (ECMA) of Trinidad & Tobago contains producing gas fields where the imaging of seismic data is known to be challenging. A full-waveform inversion velocity model was produced over the area to help reduce this uncertainty. A blind test of well pressure data correlates strongly with velocity drops in the FWI model, showing that FWI models can potentially provide very good input to regional pore pressure prediction studies and help to de-risk frontier structural plays for well planning