Broadband Imaging for the Largest Exploration Survey in Asia

Summary Deep-water (1000 m+) Sabah, Malaysia, is a frontier exploration province proximal to successful exploration trends within the Sabah thrusts zone and Luconia carbonate shelf. The basin is on trend with numerous proven petroleum systems; however, it remains underexplored with minimal drilling activities targeting the deep-water hydrocarbon plays. A large broadband towed-streamer seismic survey acquired in 2017 and 2018 provides an opportunity to build on the regional petroleum systems, create exploration opportunities, and unlock the hydrocarbon potential in this under-explored frontier area. This work illustrates how to mitigate exploration risks through contemporary broadband processing, interpretation-guided, high-resolution, anisotropic earth model building, multiphysics input to interpretation, and integrated reconnaissance AVO inversion.