Paper Summary
The presence of Messinian salt challenges hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, where many concessions reveal Messinian layer with an interval velocity between 4200 and 4300 m/s, whereas sediments velocity in the post-Messinian and pre-Messinian sections ranges from 2400 to 3000 m/s. Mode conversion is frequently caused by the large acoustic velocity contrast at the top and base of the salt layer. Many prospects in this region are sub-salt, often obscured by converted mode energy. Suppressing this energy has a significant impact on prospect interpretation. The removal of the converted wave is also key to get more accurate velocity model. In this paper, we present the application of a method to attenuate converted wave energy (Kumar et al., 2018) on recently acquired multisensor dataset from Eastern Mediterranean Sea.