A Case for Microseismic Surface Arrays in Texas?

Hallie Meighan, Robert A. Hull, Earl Roberts

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... Texas. For Pioneer, this acquisition was paired with monitoring from a downhole array in a nearby vertical offset well. Both methods of observation...

Seismic-While-Drilling: Techniques using the Drill Bit as the Seismic Source, by Bob Hardage, #40411 (2009).

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Gas Hydrate Offshore Vancouver Island, Northern Cascadia Margin

M. Riedel, Eleanor C. Willoughby, Nigel Edwards, Roy D. Hyndman, George D. Spence, Ross Chapman, Marc-Andre Chen, Ivana Novosel, Katrin Schwalenberg

AAPG Special Volumes

... 50 Hz). The BSR reflection coefficient decreases with increasing air-gun frequency across a range of 15175 Hz (Fink and Spence, 1999). An even larger...

Designing surveys in an updated regulatory environment With consideration of processing

Carsten Udengaard, David Brookes, Simon Dean, Seet Li Yong, Henrik Roende, Duncan Bate, Etienne Marc

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... is a limitation in the time source boats can be actively using air gun arrays. To acquire a commercially viable sparse OBN survey, source vessels...

Multichannel Seismic-Reflection Data Collected at the Intersection of the Mussau and Manus Trenches, Papua New Guinea

H. F. Ryan, M. S. Marlow

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... intersection (Figure 2). The multichannel survey was conducted with a five-air-gun, 2,000-psi tuned array that totaled 20 liters. Data were recorded...

Marine Seismic Investigations, Southern Brazil Margin

R. Kowsmann , R. Leyden , O. Francisconi

AAPG Bulletin

... that it may range from early Tertiary to Cretaceous. Fifteen sonobuoy profiles were shot during cruise C-15-07 using a 1,000-cu in. (15,600 cc) air gun fired...

Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Southeast Alaska Continental Margin

T. R. Bruns, P. R. Carlson

Circum Pacific Council Publications

...). Multichannel seismicreflection data were acquired in 1978 from the U.S. Geologi­ cal Survey research vessel S.P. LEE using a tuned air-gun array...

Characteristics of Deep Bahama Channels in Relation to Hydrocarbon Potential: GEOLOGIC NOTES

Henry T. Mullins , George W. Lynts , A. Conrad Neumann , Mahlon M. Balls

AAPG Bulletin

... to 70 m thick. Data were obtained employing 5-cu-in. (82 cc) Bolt air gun as energy source aboard cruise E-16A-74 of R/V Eastward. B, Photograph...

Heterostegina Zone Carbonates, Southeastern Louisiana-Offshore Mississippi: Petrography, Seismic Stratigraphy, Hydrocarbon Potential

Paul R. Krutak , Philip Beron, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

...-Heterostegina carbonates. The writers obtained cores from two of these wells (Texas Energy Oil & Gas S/L 9045 #1, Sapphire Exploration & Production Co. S/L...

Europe

Cynthia Kat

AAPG Bulletin

... (super long air gun array), shallow seismic (sparker), and gravity measurements. The NPD and the Norwegian Polar Institute cooperated on a geological...

Reefal Complexes in Mesozoic Sequences: Australia's North West Shelf Region

N. F. Exon, J. B. Colwell, P. E. Williamson, M. T. Bradshaw

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...; the blanketing of seismic energy below; positive relief above the reef core; velocity pull-up below the reef core; and downlapping seismic facies emerging from...

Management of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in the Zamrud Field, PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia

Arief Yunan, Bambang Haryanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Oil Spill Prevention Oil spills were anticipated when refueling boats and electrical generators in the area, and air gun operations might result...

Simulation of seismic waves in the fluid-solid coupled thermoelastic medium

Sen Yang, Guochen Wu, Junzhen Shan, Hongying Liu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... elastic and physical parameters are shown in Fig. 1. Figure 2 Wavefield snapshots (t=1144 ms) of the Three-layer model excited by an air gun in water...

Seismic Structure and Stratigraphy of Northern Edge of Bahaman-Cuban Collision Zone

M. M. Ball , R. G. Martin , W. D. Bock , R. E. Sylwester , R. M. Bowles , D. Taylor , E. L. Coward , J. E. Dodd , L. Gilbert

AAPG Bulletin

... sec when a 550-in.3 air gun served as the energy source, and 3 sec when a 40-in.3 gun was employed. The distance from the gun to the center...

Basic Seismic Processing: Part 7. Geophysical Methods

Peter M. Duncan

AAPG Special Volumes

... of energy conservation), but also causes reflections from a larger and larger area. (Consider light from a flashlight or ripples on a pond.) All...

A New Seismic Method to Significantly Improve Deeper Data Character and Interpretability

Andrew Long, Guillaume Cambois, Gregg Parkes, Anders Mattsson, Terje Lundsten, Mazin Farouki

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...-sensor streamer. Receiver ghost removal arises from the dual-sensor streamer, and source ghost attenuation arises from the multilevel source array. Data...

Continuous Seismic-Reflection Study of Orpheus Gravity Anomaly

Lewis H. King , Brian MacLean

AAPG Bulletin

... (Model 600A) consisting of a pneumatic acoustic repeater as its energy source. The air gun was fired at 1-sec intervals through a 16.4 cc (1 cu...

Geology, Evolution, and Mineral Potential of the Juan de Fuca Ridge

Janet L. Morton, William R. Normark, Dennis M. Mann; Donald H. Tompkins

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... the ridge axis in the data recorded by the towed array. This attenuation could have resulted from a small low-velocity zone, too narrow to produce...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Temporal Evolution of Stress States and Correlation of Production with Hydraulic Fracturing Source Mechanisms in the Marcellus Shale

Cherie Telker

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... for hydraulic fracturing related seismicity (Figure 1). The passive seismic data were acquired with a shallow buried array of 101 permanently installed...

Abstract: Planning for Second Year of BRAHSS in Full Swing

John Hughes

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... will have less horizontal array to be used fo r the 20 11 season. Although funding is being provided by t he JIP beam pattern variation than from...

Post Migration Processing of Seismic Data

Dashuki Mohd.

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... data is about 15 km long and was acquired using dual air gun arrays as the energy source with single streamer. The hydrophone group interval is 26.66...

Test Analysis of a 2D Seismic Survey With Finer CMP Interval

Zhao Xuewu, Widya Putri Pratami, Xu Qingsen, Muchlis MYS, Guo Shanli

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... improve seismic imaging with no negative impacts from geophone array. A trial with RI 10 m, CMP interval 15 m and SI 120 m was processed with nominal...

Future of Microseismic Analysis: Integration of Monitoring and Reservoir Simulation, #40784 (2011)

Leo Eisner, Vladimir Grechka, Sherilyn Williams-Stroud

Search and Discovery.com

... location accuracy of events located by inversion is improved by sensors placed in multiple azimuths away from the monitored borehole • Downhole array...

Listening from a Distance

Ted Moon

GEO ExPro Magazine

... conventional microseismic recording techniques that monitor from a single point downhole, our technique deploys an array of passive seismic monitoring...

Abstract: Pre-survey Planning for Microseismic Monitoring Projects; #90174 (2014)

Brad Artman, Ben Witten, and Brad Birkelo

Search and Discovery.com

.... energy at any given distance of an array from the event. In the models that follow we assume the event is 2,000 ft away, a constant Q of 150, a Vp/Vs ratio...