The speaker

Ian Jones received a joint honours BSc in Physics with Geology from the University of Manchester, UK, in 1977, an MSc in Seismology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and a PhD in Geophysical Signal Processing from the University of British Columbia, Canada.

After working for ‘Inverse Theory & Applications Inc.’ in Canada for two years, he joined CGG, where for 15 years he was involved in R&D in the London and Paris offices, latterly as manager of the depth imaging research group. Since 2000 he has been with ION GX Technology, as a Senior Geophysical Advisor in their London office.

His interests include velocity model building and migration, and his most recent activity includes writing the text books: ‘Velocities, Imaging, and Waveform Inversion: the evolution of characterising the Earth’s subsurface’ published by the EAGE in 2018; ‘An Introduction to Velocity Model Building’ published by the EAGE in 2010; and co-editing the SEG Geophysics Reprints series volumes ‘Classics of Elastic Wave Theory’ and also ‘Pre-Stack Depth Migration and Velocity Model Building’, as well as contributing the chapter on model building to the new SEG online encyclopaedia.

He is an associate editor for the journals ‘Geophysics’ and ‘Geophysical Prospecting’, and teaches the SEG/EAGE/PESGB continuing education course on ‘Velocity Model Building’ and is an external lecturer at the University of Leeds and Imperial College London. Ian was awarded the EAGE’s Anstey Medal in 2003 for “contributions to the depth imaging literature”, made the SEG European Honorary Lecturer in 2012 for “contributions to advancing the science and technology of geophysics”, conducted the 2018-2019 EAGE International Education Tour, and was made an Honorary Life Member by the EAGE in 2018.

The abstract

Fundamental and incremental changes in both the technology and methodologies used in imaging are transforming the way we undertake processing and imaging projects. The drivers for this change includes factors internal to the hydrocarbon exploration and production (E&P) industry (for example - the oil price and the increasing commoditisation of, particularly, the processing part of projects) and factors driven by the outside world (for example - the pace of computer development, both in hardware and software and the rise of cloud-based systems).

We will look at how the future of seismic imaging is likely to be dominated by the influence of fundamental changes to the way we build models and images of the subsurface and the merging of these two end goals of a traditional imaging project. Amongst the relevant technologies we will discuss are full waveform inversion (FWI) and the goal of high-frequency interpretable models, reflection full waveform inversion and/or reconstructed wavefield inversion (RFWI), Least-squares reverse-time migration (RTM) and the ultimate goal of closed-loop solutions. We illustrate these changes with examples from recent imaging projects in areas of complex geology.

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