Abstract
AbstractWe show that a reliable and statistically significant group velocity time‐lapse difference between 2004 and 2010 can be retrieved from ambient seismic noise in an offshore hydrocarbon exploitation setting. We performed a direct comparison of Scholte wave group velocity images obtained using regularized tomography. We characterize the expected variation in group velocity images from the 2004 or 2010 recordings that result from fluctuations in the cross correlations by looking at cross correlations of portions of the recordings. We prove that the time‐lapse difference is statistically significant. The time‐lapse group velocity image from ambient noise data shows strong similarities with a time‐lapse phase velocity map obtained from controlled source data. The most striking features are a northern and a southern group velocity increase due to compaction and subsidence as a result of reservoir production.
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