From trash to treasure: Three-dimensional basement imaging with “excess” data from oil and gas explorations

Doyeon Kim, and Larry D. Brown

AAPG Bulletin

.... A., and C. M. Jarchow, 1989, Extraction of deep crustal reflection from shallow vibroseis data using extended correlation: Geophysics, v. 54, no. 5...

McAllen Ranch Field: Successes in the 3-D-Based Redevelopment Program, Hidalgo County, Texas

Marilyn Taggi Cisar and R. Michael Stovall

GCAGS Transactions

... source and receiver. The source was Vibroseis and six receiver lines of 240 channels each were active for each swath. This resulted in an average fold...

Seismic Exploration in Railroad Valley, Nevada

John H. Vreeland, Bert H. Berrong

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... areas of the valley. Dynamite and Vibroseis operations on the bajada surfaces generally yield lower quality data than operations on the flat, central...

Enhancing conventional VSP data to broadband and its quantitative improvement on lookahead inversion

Hussain Almarzooq

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... to allow for quantitative analysis of the effect of each enhancement. Methodology We are using conventional ZVSP data acquired using a vibroseis...

Joint designature of data with a diversity of sources

Shuki Ronen, Thibaut Allemand, Stphane Laroche, Philippe Herrmann, Hamish Macintyre, Maksym Kryvohuz, Guido Baetan

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...ion in modelling because there are no intra-array bubble interactions. The DSA concept applies not only to pneumatic sources but also to Vibroseis® (Watt...

The Greeley 3-D Seismic Survey: One of the Nations Largest Urban Survey Leads to Niobrara and Codell Horizontal Activity

Jack M. Wiener, Tagir Galikeev, Collin Richardson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... prevent costly seismic hardware damage. Much effort during this planning phase also focused on accurate design testing of the vibroseis sweep frequencies...

The South Crawford Mountain Prospect, Rich County, Utah: A Case History

Valen D. Ott, Eric C. Potter, Kenneth R. Kreckel

Utah Geological Association

... in the Crawford sheet. This data (fig. 4) was typical of the 48-fold Vibroseis* data of that survey; noisy and ringy, but still containing much structural...

Seeing through the shear zone for the first time: The impact of seismic technologies on the clarity of seismic image over Bahrah field

Ali Mohamed, Adel El-Emam, Nacim Brika, Halis Bayri, Amr Issa, Kashif Adeel

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Kuwait (NK) survey is a single-sensor, high-density, full- azimuth, and long-offset survey with a Vibroseis sweep frequency of 2-84 Hz...

The Thousand Dollar Prospect, Rich County, Utah, A Case History

Valen D. Ott, Kenneth R. Kreckel

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... was a conventional 12-fold dynamite program. However, this data was almost totally devoid of reflections.The next attempted survey was a high fold vibroseis...

Extended Abstract: Exploration Results and Future Activities in Pancontinental's Eromanga Basin Permits

M. Lynn, J. D. Gorter

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... vibroseis data (Figure 4) and the drilling of four exploration wells (Figure 5). Regleigh No. 1 (spudded October, 1983) was plugged and abandoned after...

History of Oil: A Time for Reflection

M. Quentin Morton

GEO ExPro Magazine

... America DEGOLYER LIBR ARY, SMU M. Quentin Morton Vibroseis trucks deployed in Nevada in 2012. A GSI crew in South Louisiana in the early 1930s...

Extended Abstract: Exploration Potential of the Eastern Surat

Dennis Morton, John Carmody

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... This survey is 22 km long and was recorded in July 1993 using a Geco Vibroseis crew. The second is the HC93 Survey by Mosaic Oil in ATP 244P Block D...

Exploitation Using 3D Seismic in the Red Oak Field, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma

Patrick M. Rutty

Tulsa Geological Society

... Oak Field to evaluate both dynamite and Vibroseis sources (Rutty and Crawford, 1994, unpublished report). The experiment tested shot size and depth...

An in-depth look at ultra-high-density 3D seismic acquisition for mining

Tim Dean, Matt Grant

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... is heavily dependent on the maximum frequency of the sweep (due to the source density required vibroseis tends to be the only viable source). Of course...

Exploring for the future: Kidson Sub-basin seismic interpretation

Chris Southby, Lidena Carr, Paul Henson, Peter Haines, Alex Zhan, Jade Anderson, Susannah MacFarlane, Tanya Fomin, Ross Costelloe

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... was acquired by Geokinetics using an array of three Inova AHV-IV PLS364 (62 000 lb) Vibroseis vehicles (Figure 2), configured to image the entire crustal...

Direction correction and energy normalization of vibrator for 3D9C seismic wave data

Zhiwen Deng, Rui Zhang, Xiusong Wang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... During the acquisition of horizontal source component, the vibroseis truck drive forth and back, which results in opposite polarity of the data...

Environmental Outcomes of Seismic Surveying in the Coongie Lakes Control Zone

C. D. Cockshell

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... within the CLCZ (Fig 1). Conventional truck-mounted Vibroseis equipment was used as a seismic source for most of the survey. However, in thickly...

Simultaneous Sources: The Inaugural Full-Field, Marine Seismic Case History from Australia (Paper A2)

I. Moore, D. Monk, L. Hansen, C. Beasley

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... vibroseis data: Geophysical Prospecting, 58, 81-99. Bagaini, C., and Ji, Y., 2010, Dithered slip-sweep acquisition: 80th Meeting, SEG, Denver, Expanded...

Abstract: Reservoir Properties from Unbiased Seismic Inversion, by Huseyin Ozdemir; #90105 (2010)

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Charline Field 3D Survey Live Oak County,Texas

Phillip Forney

GCAGS Transactions

... for vibroseis, with group intervals of 220' to 330' and vibrator location intervals of 220' to 440'. Traces recorded per shot were from 48 in the 1979...

Understanding Naturally Fractured Reservoirs - Workshop Summary

Paul McDonald, Steve Laubach, Bob Hardage, Violeta Ivanova, Jack Pashin

PTTC

... of vibroseis techniques generally used for this purpose, the project tested alternative methods to either generate seismic shear waves directly or to take...

Extended Abstract: The Greater Etom Area (GEA): A New Phase of Exploration in the South Lokichar Basin, Turkana County, Northern Kenya

Kevin Christopherson

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

... with a vibroseis truck-mounted source. The nodal recording system is a cable-free system that minimizes time and cost during the operation as well...

The 3rd Naturally Fractured Reservoir Symposium - Multiple Workshop Summary

Paul McDonald, Steve Laubach, Bob Hardage, Violeta Ivanova, Jack Pashin

PTTC

... application of vibroseis techniques generally used for this purpose, the project tested alternative methods to either generate seismic shear waves directly...

Oil Recovery From Naturally Fractured Reservoirs: Field Studies, Modeling, and Analytic Methods - Workshop Summary

Paul McDonald, Steve Laubach, Bob HArdage, Violeta Ivanova, Jack Pashin

PTTC

... is not conducive to successful application of vibroseis techniques generally used for this purpose, the project tested alternative methods to either...

First Foreign Onshore Petroleum Exploration Project in China

R. J. Mollah

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

.... An approximate five kilometers square grid was laid out to cover the whole permit. Seismic recording commenced in February 1986. Vibroseis was chosen...