Section Six: Use of Seismic on Diapiric Structures

New Orleans Geological Society

... 8,000 ft was usually poor. But with the advent of the air gun and vastly enhanced processing capabilities, including notch filtering and deconvolution...

Seismic imaging in shallow water where are we at and where might we be going?

Henry A. Debens, Robert Eliott-Lockhart, Jennifer Moss

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... Territory. Thirty-two lines were acquired using a single air-gun array (3150 in3) towed at a depth of 6 m in water depths of 80–380 m (Fig. 1a). A single...

Geophysical Studies of the Continental Slope, Scarp, and Basin, Eastern Gulf of Mexico.

J. W. Antoine, B. R. Jones

GCAGS Transactions

... utilizing both an air gun sound source and an "arcer" system. The rate of firing has been from 4 to 10 seconds, but a standard rate of 6 4/7 seconds...

The First Oil Shock

Rasoul Sorkhabi

GEO ExPro Magazine

... oil-rich Arab governments 1973. In September 1973, the OPEC were looking for a smoking meeting in Vienna decided that Iran, gun, which they found...

High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Investigations of the Southeastern Outer Santa Cruz Basin, Central California

Henry T. Mullins, David K. Nagel

Pacific Section of AAPG

...; lower panel air-gun and sparker lines collected by the USGS. Also shown on upper panel are rock dredge locations; squares denote start of dredge...

One more stride forward in Thunder Horse subsalt imaging with elastic FWI

Bunmi Elebiju, Qingsong Li, Ken Hartman, Francis Rollins, Ye Feng, Karl Kaiser, Werner Schinagl, Chi Chen, Alex Yanjun Hao, Zhiyuan Wei, Jiawei Mei

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... with an Independent Simultaneous Source method (ISS) with two air-gun source vessels (two source arrays on each vessel), while the 2015 OBN survey used one...

Neotectonics of the Southern Sumatran Forearc

M. Ma'ruf Mukti, Satish C. Singh, R. Moeremans, N.D. Hananto, H. Permana, I. Deighton

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...-parallel lines. The data were acquired using a 7.95-km long streamer towed at 7 m depth, with 3940 cubic inch air gun sources towed at 5 m depth. The shot...

The deblending processing of multi-well 3D DAS-VSP data in the Middle East

Fei Li, Gang Yu, Haibo Liu, Jiawen Song, Yanbin Zhang, Yuanzhong Chen, Tiankui Yin, Jianxin Han, Qingfeng Li

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... conducted by multi air-gun vessels along the source lines. Pseudo-deblending dataset Determine the threshold Next Iteration Deblended data...

Multi-Source Design and Penta Source Case Study from the NWS Australia

Edward Hager, Phil Fontana

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... separations increased to achieve up to 500m acquisition swaths. The latter is discussed in the case study below. The physical limit of recharging an air-gun...

Advanced Deblending Scheme for Independent Simultaneous Source Data

M. Wang, Z.H. Chen, C. Chen, F.C. Loh, T. Manning, S. Wolfarth

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... with a standard derivation of one second – this is provided to the air-gun control software in real acquisition cases. As shown in Figure 2a, the cross-talk...

Image processing of jointly acquired 3D DAS-VSP data with an OBN survey in the Middle East

G. Yu, H. Liu, Y. Zhang, H. Chen, X. Li, L. Duan, G. Cambois, J. Cowell, J. Mason, Y. Chen, J. Wu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of air gun source shooting exceeded 2.4 million shots for the 3D DAS-VSP data acquisition at the Location 1 and about 3 million shots at the Location 2. 0...

Characteristics of a Deep-Sea Channel on the Middle Mississippi Fan as Revealed by a High-Resolution Survey

David B. Prior, Charles E. Adams, James M. Coleman

GCAGS Transactions

... (1983) further investigated segments of the channel using deep-tow SEAMARC I intermediate-range (37 kHz) side-scan, together with an air gun and 3.5-, 4.5...

The Early Years

W. B. Gallup

CSPG Special Publications

... to fall immediately thereafter before Kanouse’s gun. The energetic siege which ensued was repulsed with equal energy. At the end of three days...

Deblending a sparse OBN survey acquired with a generalized survey optimization scheme

Matthew Salgadoe, Bartosz Szydlik, Azat Kuliev, Christopher McMorland

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... should not fire within a certain time window to allow the air gun compressors suitable time to refill, or to allow appropriate time for the shot...

West Chalkley, Cameron Parish, Louisiana: A Case for Continued Exploration in Mature Producing Provinces: Chapter 3

G. E. Klefstad

AAPG Special Volumes

... spread and dynamite or a combination of dynamite and air gun as a source. The lines were reprocessed in the fall of 1987...

Full-waveform inversion from a homogeneous starting model: A field dataset study

Zeyu Zhao, Brook Tozer, Mrinal K. Sen

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... apart by 12.5 m, with the maximum offset of 10 km. The original data covers a 260 km long 2D profile with a air-gun shot spacing of 100 m. Here we only...

Bramberge Field, Federal Republic of Germany: Case Histories

A. Roll

AAPG Special Volumes

...). The permeability of the reservoir sandstone (to air) in the Ruhle field increases laterally in a short distance from near zero to more than 3 darcys...

Offshore Areas of Canadian Arctic Islands--Geology Based on Geophysical Data: Regional Arctic Geology of Canada

S. A. Bourne , A. E. Pallister

AAPG Special Volumes

..., in conjunction with marine programs, helps to define seismic velocities (Fig. 7). For the sonobuoy refraction probe, an air-gun energy source (300 cu...

A High-Resolution Seismic Survey to Image the Top of Salt at Avery Island, Louisiana

Dawn Standridge, Cathy Bishop, Gary Kinsland, Robert Schneider, Laura Serpa

GCAGS Transactions

... m), which is above the maximum survey elevation of 45 ft (13.5 m), and the area from this datum to the surface was filled in with the velocity of air...

Sonobuoy Refraction Measurements in East China Sea

R. Leyden , M. Ewing , S. Murauchi

AAPG Bulletin

... with the recent Vema buoys by using explosives at long ranges where the air-gun signal weakened. Sonobuoy 190 (Figs. 1, 5, section E-G) was recorded along...

Profiler-Sonobuoy Measurements in Colombia and Venezuela Basins, Caribbean Sea

William J. Ludwig , Robert E. Houtz , John I. Ewing

AAPG Bulletin

... source 20-cu-in. air gun; pass-band 20-40 Hz left channel, 12-20 Hz right channel; ship heading east at speed of about 5.5 knots; sonobuoy SSQ-28; sea...

Structural Framework of Continental Shelf and Slope off Southwestern Sierra Leone, West Africa

Robert L. McMaster , Eric Christofferson , Asaf Ashraf

AAPG Bulletin

... (McMaster et al, 1973, p. 93). Continuous-seismic profiles were made with a Bolt air gun utilizing a 330-cc chamber that was fired at 4-sec intervals...

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...

Ion Microprobe Imaging as a Tool for Elucidating Waterflood Reactions

S. C. Elphick, B. T. Ngwenya, G. B. Shimmield

AAPG Bulletin

... work can be found in Elphick et al. (1991). In concept, the SIMS technique is simple. An ionizing source (ion gun) supplies a high-energy beam...

Abstract: Case Study- High Resolution Velocity Model Building to Improve Carbonate Reefs Image in Tz Area; #91204 (2023)

Hongjun Zhang, Yang Chen, Zhengzheng Zhou, Xiang Li, Hotma Yusuf, Haryono Haryanto, Farid Dasa Marianto

Search and Discovery.com

..., with limited 2.3km offset, air-gun source depth 4 or 2 m varying with water depth, Data was acquired on grid of 25m x 25m. This survey is composed of north...