VAMPs--Possible Hydrocarbon-Bearing Structures in Bering Sea Basin: GEOLOGIC NOTES

David W. Scholl, Alan K. Cooper

AAPG Bulletin

... typical VAMP. Time delay associated with velocity pulldown appears to increase down section. Both profiles were recorded with large air-gun array. End...

Geology of Mediterranean Shelf of Israel

A. Ginzburg , S. S. Cohen , H. Hay-Roe , A. Rosenzweig

AAPG Bulletin

... sequence, principally anhydrite. Deeper structure, mapped from air gun CDP records, confirms that multiple periods of folding, uplift, and erosion...

Active Margin: Depositional Sequences in the Castellon Area, Offshore Northeast Spain

D. R. Johns, M. A. Herber, and M. M. Schwander

AAPG Special Volumes

... caused abrupt lateral changes in paleobathymetry. GEOPHYSICAL DATA The migrated seismic lines (Figures 3A and 3B), shot with an air-gun energy source...

ABSTRACT: A High-Resolution Seismic Survey of the Holocene Section Offshore Part of the Dutch Mesotidal Barrier Shoreline, by E. C. Kosters, T. McGee, B. Posthumus, J. Brouwer; #91003 (1990).

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Oceans, New Frontier in Exploration

R. H. Beck , P. Lehner

AAPG Bulletin

... is simple and shows comparatively little local variation. Oceanic basement generally represents acoustic basement on modern air-gun records. It also...

Design of the Acoustic Zoom Method for Non-Specular Backscatter Imaging of the Eagle Ford Formation, #41495 (2014).

J. Guigne, S. Azad, C. Clements, A. Gogacz, W. Hunt, A. Pant, J. Stacey

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..., Characterization of Seismic Energy as Generated by a Modified High Frequency Vibroseis Truck for Acoustic Zoom. Report on the Field Data Analysis from...

The Limitations of Seismic Modelling of Geological Structures

B. L. N. Kennett

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... are sufficient to return seismic energy to an array of detectors at or near the surface. In detail, we know from well-log studies that the features which give...

Late Cenozoic Stratigraphy of the Central Scotian Slope, Eastern Canada

David J.W. Piper, William R. Normark, Roy Sparkes

CSPG Bulletin

... File by Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. Farre, J.A., McGregor, B.A., Ryan, W.B.F. and Robb, J.M. 1983. Breaching the shelfbreak: passage from...

Practical Use of Borehole Seismic in Exploration; Goals and Shortcomings

F. Sandnes, L. Nustt, S. G. Henry

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... For this particular VSP an air-gun was chosen as the energy source. The airgun was fitted with a de-bubble kit to reduce the well known "bubble...

Simultaneous source wide azimuth seismic acquisition using low frequency Gemini source in eastern Mediterranean Sea

Shangli Ou, Shelley Zaragoza, Zachary Lawrence, Lindsey Donaldson, Chris Tapie, Kim Begay-Jackson, Brian deMartin, Ares Ouzounis, Jie Shu, Luigi Pastore, Gita Febriany

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... enhancement of 10-16 dB when compared to a conventional air gun source with a 4720 cubic inch volume. Image uplifts due to the contribution from WAZ data...

Aru Trough Deepwater Trepang 3D: The First Broadband Triple-Source Marine Seismic Survey Acquired in Indonesia Led by Ophir Energy

Ed Hager, Carey Davis, Dave Arnold, Safrin Arbi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... that the seismic record 5 seconds below the water-bottom has interference energy from the next shot; therefore, an extra stage of processing...

Vibroseis System: a High-Frequency Tool: ABSTRACT

William L. Chapman, G. L. Brown, D. W. Fair

AAPG Bulletin

... are extended to their limits as the search for energy resources continues. Successful application of high-frequency seismic methods requires evaluating each...

Late Quaternary Stratigraphy and Development of Tidal Sand Ridges in the Eastern Yellow Sea

Soo-Chul Park, Bang-Hee Lee, Hyuk-Soo Han, Dong-Geun Yoo, Chi-Won Lee

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by Berne et al. (1998). In this study, we analyze a number of sediment cores and high-resolution seismic (air-gun and sparker) profiles from the eastern...

Data Enhancement from a 486-Channel Streamer

Bill Dragoset, Ken Larner

Pacific Section of AAPG

.... Both surveys used a 10-gun, high-pressure airgun array as the energy source. (The shot spacing was 30 m for the digital streamer survey and 33.5 m...

Cross-Borehole Tomography in Development Geology: Part 7. Geophysical Methods

J. H. Justice, M. E. Mathisen, J. R. Bulau, A. A. Vassiliou

AAPG Special Volumes

... for the seismic energy to travel from source to receiver. Data are acquired for every combination of source and receiver stations. Ray paths connecting sources...

Wavelet Processing

Lee Lu

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... channel marine data. The energy source was from untuned air guns. Parsimonious Deconvolution is designed over near 24 trace using a 2 seconds data...

The Modern Carbonate Ramp Slope of Central West Florida

Henry T. Mullins, Anne F. Gardulski, Edward J. Hinchey, Albert C. Hine

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Hatteras (Fig. 2). Profiles were generated using a 5-in.3 air gun as an acoustic energy source, and reflections were received by a 50-element...

Passive Seismic: Something Old, Something New, by Peter M. Duncan, #40154 (2005).

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Adaptive Eigen-structure Classification and Stochastic Decorrelation Filters for Coherent Interference Suppression in the Acoustic Zoom Method

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Abstract: The Role of Magnitude Saturation, Accounting for Seismic Energy Release and Fracture Surface Area Development Associated with Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations; #90224 (2015)

Ted Urbancic, Andy Cochrane, and Adam Baig

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.... During the stimulation, a total of 4500 events were recorded on the downhole array situated close to the reservoir, ranging in magnitude from M-1 to M...

The Seismic Stratigraphy of the Kimmeridgian„Tithonian Dupuy Formation in the Barrow Island Area

D. Gillam, K. Ehman, H. Posamentier, M. Trupp

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... drilling decisions (Figs 3 and 4). The BWI3D was acquired using a combination of vibroseis, explosives and air-gun sources. Explosive sources were used...

Tripartite Study of the New Ireland-Manus Region, Papua New Guinea: An Introduction

N. F. Exon, M. S. Marlow

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... profiles. About 2000 km of 24-channel reflection data were collected, by using a five-air-gun array totalling 1265 cubic inches (21 liters) as a sound...

Depth Prediction Ahead of the Bit: A Case Study from the Singa-1 Discovery Well, South Sumatra

Mark Crawley, David Ginger

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... It was felt that energy travelling directly from the bit could be used to derive formation velocity information, but it was not clear how much, if any...

Two Frontier Basins Come to Light

Ian Davison, Menno G. Dinkelman, Wouter Kool, GEO International Ltd., ION’s G

GEO ExPro Magazine

...), as was the geophone streamer (18m) and bubble interference was kept to a minimum. The air gun and streamer deep-tow provided a maximum energy input...

Abstract: Detection Sensitivity of Local Tectonic Earthquakes by Borehole Geophone Arrays: A Case Study From Central Alberta; #90224 (2015)

Enrico Caffagni and David W. Eaton

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... by continuous raw data from a 12-level downhole 15 Hz geophone array deployed at 2 km depth in a wellbore in central Alberta. Geophones are relatively...