1. Annual Meeting Utah Tomography and Modeling/Migration (UTAM) Feb. 5-6, 2009 N. Aoki, C. Boonyasiriwat, S. Brown, W. Cao, W. Dai, N. Aoki, C. Boonyasiriwat, S. Brown, W. Cao, W. Dai, S. Dong, S. Hanafy, S. Huang, S. Liu, G. Schuster, X. Wang, Q. Wu, Y. Xue, and G. Zhan

2. UTAM Consortium BPChevron-TexacoConoco-PhillipsCGG-VeritasExxonMobilGeotomoGXTJAPEXMicroseismicNexus PetrobrasPGSSaudi-AramcoSchlumberger-West.-GecoSeismicReservoir2020Shell Tierra Geophysics TGSTotal Tullow Oil ($30 k/year)

3. 2008 UTAM ITEMS Book published “Seismic Interferometry” Cambridge Press. Online version of UTAM report will be available in 2 weeks. Many reports will have some key figures reproducible Webcast UTAM meeting Thanks to Sergio Chavez for his review of talks. Thanks to ExxonMobil ( D. Mcadow ) and.TOTAL ( P. Williamson ) Thanks to Alan Leeds teaching a Promax course. Thanks to Sergey Fomel and Yibo Wang for talks. Guests: J. Higginbottom and K. Sikorski. Welcome Mick Igoe

4. Schedule 8:30-12:00: Morning: Interferometric extrap. and interp., HMM, Curvelets and interp., HMM, Curvelets Thursday 12:05-1:15: Lunch (Alumni House) 1:25-4:40: Afternoon: RTM, LSM, PEM, MD, deblur Sergey Fomel and Y. Wang Sergey Fomel and Y. Wang 6:30-9:00: Red Butte Dinner (TOTAL) 8:30-12:00: Morning: Migration+Tomography Friday

5. What we Accomplished 1. Phase Encoded Modeling Is it possible to perform 1 FD simulation to get 10000s of FD simulations?

6. What we Accomplished 1. Phase Encoded Modeling Is it possible to perform 1 FD simulation to get 10000s of FD simulations? 2. Least Squares Migration and Migration Decon Possible to precond. accelerate convergence so only a few iterations needed? Migration1 1.2 Z (km) 1112 X (km) DLSM after 3 Iterations 1.2 Z (km) 1112 X (km) 1

7. What we Accomplished 30 0.7 Data residual 0 Residual curves Iteration number

8. What we Accomplished 1. Phase Encoded Modeling Is it possible to perform 1 FD simulation to get 10000s of FD simulations? 2. Least Squares Migration and Migration Decon Possible to precond. accelerate convergence so only a few iterations needed? 3. 3D Interferometric Extrapolation and Interpolation Possible? 0 8 Time (s) Streamer 21 Input Data 0 8 Time (s) Streamer 212’1’ Virtual Data Gap between 30 m streamers

9. What we Accomplished 1. Phase Encoded Modeling Is it possible to perform 1 FD simulation to get 10000s of FD simulations? 2. Least Squares Migration and Migration Decon Possible to precond. accelerate convergence so only a few iterations needed? 3. 3D Interferometric Extrapolation and Interpolation Possible?

10. What we Accomplished 1. Phase Encoded Modeling Is it possible to perform 1 FD simulation to get 10000s of FD simulations? 2. Least Squares Migration and Migration Decon Possible to precond. accelerate convergence so only a few iterations needed? 3. 3D Interferometric Extrapolation and Interpolation Possible? 4. Multiscale Waveform Inversion Works for field data?

11. What we Accomplished 1. Phase Encoded Modeling Is it possible to perform 1 FD simulation to get 10000s of FD simulations? 2. Least Squares Migration and Migration Decon Possible to precond. accelerate convergence so only a few iterations needed? 3. 3D Interferometric Extrapolation and Interpolation Possible? 4. Multiscale Waveform Inversion Works for field data? 5. Fast Target Oriented RTM Works for field data?

12. What we Accomplished Is it possible to perform 1 FD simulation to get 10000s of FD simulations? 2. Least Squares Migration and Migration Decon 3. 3D Interferometric Extrapolation and Interpolation Possible? 4. Multiscale Waveform Inversion KM Target-Oriented RTM 5. Fast Target Oriented RTM Works for field data?

13. What we Accomplished 1. Phase Encoded Modeling Is it possible to perform 1 FD simulation to get 10000s of FD simulations? 2. Least Squares Migration and Migration Decon Possible to precond. accelerate convergence so only a few iterations needed? 3. 3D Interferometric Extrapolation and Interpolation Possible? 4. Multiscale Waveform Inversion Works for field data? 5. Fast Target Oriented RTM Works for field data? 6. Separation of Multisource Data Works?

14. What we Accomplished 6. Separation of Multisource Data Works?

15. What we Accomplished 1. Phase Encoded Modeling Is it possible to perform 1 FD simulation to get 10000s of FD simulations? 2. Least Squares Migration and Migration Decon Possible to precond. accelerate convergence so only a few iterations needed? 3. 3D Interferometric Extrapolation and Interpolation Possible? 4. Multiscale Waveform Inversion Works for field data? 5. Fast Target Oriented RTM Works for field data? 6. Separation of Multisource Data 7. Hidden Markov Chains

16. What we Accomplished 7. Hidden Markov Chains

17. What we Accomplished 1. Phase Encoded Modeling Is it possible to perform 1 FD simulation to get 10000s of FD simulations? 2. Least Squares Migration and Migration Decon Possible to precond. accelerate convergence so only a few iterations needed? 3. 3D Interferometric Extrapolation and Interpolation Possible? 4. Multiscale Waveform Inversion Works for field data? 5. Fast Target Oriented RTM Works for field data? 6. Separation of Multisource Data Works?

18. What We Plan to do in 2009? Small Library of GPU modeling and migration codes. Full tests on range of topics for phase encoded modeling, migration, and imaging. migration, and imaging. Development of Hidden Markov Models.. Further improvements on matching filter Wyoming field test for getting signal from noise. Strong effort on waveform inversion (using Q adjustments) of land data. Perhaps elastic inversion tests. of land data. Perhaps elastic inversion tests. 3D preconditioned LSM applied to field data. Finish up LSD applied to VSP and SSP data.

19. Announcement: GTS Transition to Kaust Jerry moves to Kaust (June, 2009) 2009 UTAM, annual meeting Jan. 2010 at UU 2009 UTAM, annual meeting Jan. 2010 at UU Prof. Sherif Hanafy at UU & GTS at Kaust Fall 2009 Prof. Sherif Hanafy at UU & GTS at Kaust Fall 2009 Every 2-3 weeks 4-hour SKYPE conferences, 3 1-wk visits Every 2-3 weeks 4-hour SKYPE conferences, 3 1-wk visits GTS arrives at UU ~Dec. 15-Jan.20 GTS arrives at UU ~Dec. 15-Jan.20 2010 K-UTAM Meetings at UU or UT Austin? Meetings at UU or UT Austin? Significant reduction membership fee Significant reduction membership fee Joint Kaust+UT Austin Program? Joint Kaust+UT Austin Program? Joint Kaust+UU Program? Joint Kaust+UU Program? Jerry: UU Res. Prof.+Kaust Jerry: UU Res. Prof.+Kaust