Marine Multicomponent Seismic – The New Issues in the Developing Revolution

Jason Robinson

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the generation of S waves relies on the mode conversion of P wave energy to S wave energy at rock property boundaries. Thus conventional marine airgun...

Prospects for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion in the Pacific

Lloyd Lewis, Eric Midboe, Kenneth McDonald

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... and tested in Hawaii and on Nauru. Designs, site surveys, and environmental assessments for commercial ocean thermal energy conversion plants have been...

Converted-Wave Prestack Time Imaging without using P-Wave

Search and Discovery.com

... P-wave data and applied it to several 4D 3C surveys. The advantages of the method are that it avoids converting velocities among different travel...

High Frequency Full Waveform Inversion as an Interpretation Solution

Laurence Letki, Matt Lamont, Troy Thompson

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... is ever increasing. Large seismic surveys, long offsets, multi- and full-azimuth datasets, including 3D and 4D, marine, ocean-bottom nodes...

ABSTRACT: Imaging Through Gas Clouds: Case Histories from the Gulf of Mexico; #90007 (2002)

Knapp, Steve, Nigel Payne, Tony Johns

Search and Discovery.com

... images (Thomsen, et al 1997, Granli et al 1999). For marine surveys where the energy source is towed 1 AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90007©2002...

Application of Electroseismic Technology for Direct Hydrocarbon Detection in the Smackover formation of south Alabama

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Abstract: Reservoir Characterization in Mississippian Rocks via Seismic Methods, Comanche County, Kansas, by Dennis E. Hedke, Brian W. Wilhite, Rafael Sanguinetti, and Kurt J. Marfurt; #90067 (2007)

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ABSTRACT: Enhancing Analysis of 4C Data in the Gulf of Mexico from Results of 9C Data Onshore

Gumble, Jason, E. and Tatham, Robert H.

GCAGS Transactions

... maximum interpretive results from marine 4C data. In particular, the application of land S-wave seismic from controlled polarization 9C data...

2D seismic surveys as an alternative for CO2 monitoring in the North Dakota CarbonSAFE project

César Barajas-Olalde, Donald C. Adams, Hansel Gonzalez, Mengmeng Zhang, Pablo Benitez, Ryan J. Klapperich, Wesley D. Peck, Panos Doulgeris

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... for CO2 monitoring. 2D and 3D surveys were compared using wave equation-based amplitude-versus-offset (WEB-AVO) inversion. The encouraging WEB-AVO results...

A Statistical Approach to Assessing Depth Conversion Uncertainty on a Regional Dataset: Cooper-Eromanga Basin, Australia

David Kulikowski, Catherine Hochwald, Dennis Cooke, Khalid Amrouch

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... their individual significance on depth conversion accuracy. DATA SET Selecting the data for this study required a set of seismic surveys with a good spatial...

G. Non-Normal Incidence Reflections and the Determination of Lithology - Use of Shear Waves and Amplitude with Offset

Norman S. Neidell

AAPG Special Volumes

...," Preprint, 54th Annual Mtg. SEG, Atlanta, Dec. 2-6, 1984. (9) Gehrmann (T.), Gimpel (P.) and Theilen (F.), "Marine Shear Wave Profiling," Preprint...

ABSTRACT: Removing multiples or using multiples: new challenges for land data; #90051 (2006)

Eric Verschuur

Search and Discovery.com

... near surface scattering, internal multiple generation by shallow reflectors and conversion from P-wave to S-wave energy. That is why the surface...

Abstracts: True-Amplitude PS Prestack Time Migration via 5D Interpolation; #90173 (2015)

Peter W. Cary, Albert Zhang

Search and Discovery.com

...) data requires some considerations that are different from P-wave data. Since the PS conversion point locations change substantially from top to bottom...

Enhancement of Multicomponent Seismic Data; #41778 (2016)

Satinder Chopra, Ritesh Kumar Sharma

Search and Discovery.com

... wavefront. When a P-wave arrives at subsurface rock interfaces at non-normal angles of incidence, a mode conversion of P-wave energy takes place...

Simultaneous 3D 4C - OBC & VSP Walkaway Survey in the Attaka Field, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Bill Borland, Phil Johnston, Mike Reblin, Suta Vijaya, Omar Kulbrandstad, Muhammad Idrees, Scott Leaney, Jan van de Mortel

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... conversion point mapping and migration of the OBC data. One limitation of the Attaka borehole data was the lack of shear wave velocities in the near surface...

Abstract: The Impact of Geophysical Technology on Oil and Gas Exploration and Production: Past, Present and Future

William S. French

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., repeated 3D seismic surveys, often Within the last five years, marine geophysical includin g shear wave recording, will be used contractors have...

Australian National Ocean Bottom Seismograph Fleet Advances Conventional Exploration

Alexey Goncharov, Michal Malinowski, Dejan Sekulic, Ashby Cooper, Peter Chia, Alexander Gavrilov, Garrick Paskos

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... seismic surveys. Three-component recording capability of OBSs allows analysis of S-waves in addition to the P-waves that are conventionally used in marine...

“The Explosion in Marine Seismic Technology – How to Choose the Right Tool”

William S. French, Svein Vaage

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

.... Extensive modeling is used to design MC3D surveys for optimum delineation of all reservoir types present in the survey area. Marine Vertical Cable...

ABSTRACT: Converted Shear-Wave Anisotropy Attributes for Fractured-Reservoir Management; #90013 (2003)

JAMES E. GAISER, RICHARD R. VAN DOK

Search and Discovery.com

... converted wave (PS-wave) surveys provide complimentary surface-seismic information to help identify fracture properties early in the production history...

ABSTRACT: C-wave Spectral Broadening to Match P-wavelengths for Improved Fracture/Lithology Characterization, by Gaiser, James; Verm, Richard ; Chaveste, Alvaro; #90142 (2012)

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Combined P and S Waves Survey for Hydrocarbon Exploration

Basuki Puspoputro

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... components. At normal incidence there is no conversion from P to SV or from SV to P, but as the angle of incidence increases the conversion from one wave type...

Chapter Ten: Depth Conversion and Depth Imaging Introduction

Alistair R. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

...Chapter Ten: Depth Conversion and Depth Imaging Introduction Alistair R. Brown 2011 351 352 AAPG Memoir 42/SEG Investigations in Geophysics, No. 9...

History of Oil: A Time for Reflection

M. Quentin Morton

GEO ExPro Magazine

... as a subsidiary. The reflection method, more suited to greater depths and marine environments than refraction, became a primary means of petroleum exploration...

Characterization of Seismic Anomalies using Converted Waves: A Case History from East Natuna Basin

Lotfi Ben-Brahim, Ronan Petton, Michel Couderc, Agus Djamhoer

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... either dedicated S wave energy sources (vibrators or tampers) or conventional P wave sources, relying on conversion of P to S waves (PS). P to S wave...

Seismic land acquisition designed to identify geology and rock properties over stacked pay interval using HTD 3D3C survey in the Permian Basin

Bruce Karr, Andrew Lewis, Stephen Klug, Ron Bianco

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Historically, Permian Basin converted wave 3D seismic surveys were acquired based on a P-wave acquisition design to image a range of depths that cover...