Distributed Acoustic Sensing Vertical Seismic Profiling (DAS VSP) in an Exploration Well in the Gulf of Mexico—Case Study

A. Martinez, S. Ali, G. Zemlicka, S. Ruiz, C. Moyer, G. Richard, E. Bergersen, T. Campbell, B. Adkins, and J. Bassil

GCAGS Transactions

...) utilizes geophones strung at various depths within a borehole to record shots from a rig-deployed air-gun source, in the case of a Zero Offset VSP...

Applications of near-field hydrophone data imaging in a shallow water environment: A case study from offshore Egypt

Mahmoud El-Attar, Omar Hossam, Azat Kireev, Arindam Kanrar, Usama Fathy Abdel-Kader, Kai Zhang, Jacob Deeds, Jordan Hassler

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...., A. Ziolkowski, L. Hatton, and T. Haugland, 1984, The signature of an air gun array: Computation from near field measurements including interactions...

History of Seismic Exploration-Santa Barbara Channel: ABSTRACT

F. E. Schultz

AAPG Bulletin

...-dynamite sources. Air gun, gas exploder, and Aquapulse became the principal sources used. Data quality continues to be enhanced by improvements...

Unlocking Hydrocarbon Potential of the Caribbean Plate with the New Deep Strata Survey Approach

Search and Discovery.com

Seismic Stratigraphy of Modern Carbonate Slope: ABSTRACT

H. Mark Van Buren, Henry T. Mullins

AAPG Bulletin

... of high resolution, 5 cu in. air-gun and 3.5 kHz seismic reflection profiles, as well as 30 piston cores, the open ocean, windward, deep carbonate...

Evolution of Offshore Seismic Exploration: ABSTRACT

W. Harry Mayne

AAPG Bulletin

... from land procedures were required in the following areas: (1) cables and receivers, (2) positioning (surveying, navigation), and (3) seismic energy...

Impacts of Exposure to a Seismic Source Survey on Silverlip Pearl Oysters (Pinctada Maxima)

Miles J. G. Parsons, Conrad W. Speed, Robert D. McCauley, Rebbeca Fisher, Cecile Dang, Diego R. Barneche, Jayson Semmens, Stephen Newman, Ryan Day, Hosna Gholipourkanani, Mark G. Meekan

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... impacts of man-made sound on marine fauna. He has researched impacts of seismic survey air gun sources on animals from plankton to whales. Dr Rebecca...

Efficient acquisition and imaging of high-resolution seismic data with the continuous wavefields method

Tilman Klver, Torben Hy

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... intervals such that one air-gun is triggered every 200-300 ms on average. In this way, energy is emitted near-continuously allowing for dense inline...

Marine Seismic Acquisition: Efficiency and Environment, New Technologies Applied in Australia

Martin Bayly, Michelle Tham, Peter Watterson, Binghui Li, Kevin Moran

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

.... 2392. Ziolkowski, A., Parkes, G., Hatton, L., and Haugland, T. (1982). The signature of an air gun array: computation from near-field measurements...

The Seismic Exploration of the Mahakam Delta, or "Nine Years Shooting in Rivers, Swamps and Very Shallow Offshore"

Guy Roux

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the seismic response in the rivers by using, where possible, the conventional marine high CDP techniques (powerful air-gun and streamer). This attempt...

Broadband data with a new low frequency source Acquisition and processing example from the Gulf-of-Mexico

Xuefeng Shang, Maksym Kryvohuz, Hamish Macintyre, Guido Baeten, Thibaut Allemand, Philippe Herrmann, Stephane Laroche, Shuki Ronen

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.../10.1190/geo2012-0294.1. Ziolkowski, A., G. Parkes, L. Hatton, and T. Haugland, 1982, The signature of an air gun array: Computation from near-field measurements...

A Sound Exposure Level (SEL) Study for a 3D Seismic Survey off the WA Coastline, Browse Basin

Andrew S. Long, Jens F. Wisløff, Jaafar Ali, Averrouz Mostavan, David Hedgeland, Alec J. Duncan, Amos L. Maggi, Jeremy Colman

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... output was ca lcu lated by the summat ion of t he notional sou rce output from each air gun location in t he source array w it h appropriate t ime sh...

Subsurface imaging with near field hydrophone data of OBN acquisition

Lei Runchen, Chen Haolin, Xu Zhaohong, Wei Xiubo, Liu Zhao, Luo Minxue

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., a scheme for processing the near field data recorded by the NFH was proposed. 1 Introduction For all marine seismic explorations using air-gun source...

The Future of Marine Seismic Acquisition?

Luc Haumonté

GEO ExPro Magazine

... mini air-gun array – and in water depths of 2,400m, up to seven seconds of data was recorded. Being able to obtain such results with low energy sources...

Seismic Frequency Bandwidth Constraints in Deepwater Locations

Andrew Long, Iain Buchan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... using the PGS Nucleus modelling package. For a standard air gun source array (i.e., 3090 in3 volume, 10 m subarray separation: Refer to Figure 1...

V. Contributions of GeoSeismic Modeling

Norman S. Neidell

AAPG Special Volumes

... similar to its minimum phase equivalent. Figure 10 shows the seismic response wi h a tuned air-gun signature, also extracted from North Sea data. A similar...

Vaporchoc: Utilization of Steam as a New Seismic Source

P. Staron

Pacific Section of AAPG

... of gas: this gas results from an explosion (conventional source, gas exploder) or from a sudden release of compressed air (air gun). A sudden outburst...

Abstract: Preserved Amplitude Processing of Complex Transitional Zone 2-D Seismic, by Rodney Blackford, Ding Yenn Maa, and Abdulaziz Al-Fares; #90077 (2008)

Search and Discovery.com

Refraction Shooting with Expendable Sonobuoys: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

J. Ewing , R. Leyden , M. Ewing

AAPG Bulletin

... radio sonobuoys and a nonexplosive (air gun) sound source for shallow water refraction studies has shown that the sonobuoys can produce excellent...

Seismic Imaging Through Gas Cloud Using Borehole Seismic Walkaway Technique; A Case Example From Offshore Malaysia

Teck Kean Lim, Gunawan Taslim, Amy Mawarni M Yusoff

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and the vessel hull (J.R. Tulett et al, 2002). The seismic source was a 3 x 150 cu. inch air gun delta cluster deployed at a safe distance of 9 m from the ship...

Extending seismic bandwidth using the harmonic energy of a marine vibrator source

Tiexing Wang, Arash JafarGandomi, Hakon Aune

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... Parkes, L. Hatton, and T. Haugland, 1982, The signature of an air gun array: Computation from near‐field measurements including interactions...

NW TUNU 3D Transition Zone … Multi Challenging Seismic Operation Project in Mahakam Delta

Aa Pian Nopiana, Cepi M. Adam, Remi Dartigalongue, Michel Erbetta, Christophe Paulet, Gilles Vallon

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...). In addition, it’s overall signal energy was 5db higher than that of the air gun shot. The signal at target level was higher for explosives than...

Exploration and Beyond

Paul Wood

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., 2,000 cu.in. air gun array and an instrument room. BP purchased the system and conducted 11 repeat surveys but in 2010 put the work up for tender...

Land, Marine and Transition Zone Seismic Operations in PPL 123, Papua New Guinea

Alan G. Fenwick, Robert J. Paul

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

..., 18 dB/Octave 128 Hz,72 dB/Octave Tuned sleeve air gun array 24 air guns ranging from 10 to 40 cubic inches capacity totalling 740 cubic inches...

Deep Carbonate Bank Margin Structure and Sedimentation in the Northern Bahamas

Henry T. Mullins, A. Conrad Neumann

Special Publications of SEPM

... of each deep bank margin type from the analysis of high frequency high resolution air gun and uniboom seismic reflection profiles 3 De termine the major...