Deepwater OBN - Exploiting data-processing possibilities

Kristiansen, P.; Ogunsakin, A.; Esotu, M.; Zdraveva, Olga; Hootman, Bruce W.; Quadt, Edwin

doi:10.1190/segam2014-1156.1

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“…The workflow follows that of a typical deep-water OBN flow (e.g. Kristiansen et al 2014). For the marine vibrator and airgun baseline scenarios, the reconstruction is performed for both pressure and particle velocity for each of the 140 nodes.…”

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Marine vibrators: the new phase of seismic exploration

Laws

Halliday

Hopperstad

et al. 2018

Geophysical Prospecting

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Marine seismic vibrators are generally considered to be less intrusive than airguns from an environmental perspective. This is because they emit their energy spread out in time, rather than in a single, high‐intensity pulse. There are also significant geophysical benefits associated with marine vibrators, and they stem from the ability to specify in detail the output acoustic waveform. The phase can be specified independently at each frequency. Such detailed control cannot be achieved with conventional airgun sources, where the phase can only be modified using simple overall time delays. The vibrator phase can be employed in several different ways: it can be applied to the overall source phase in a sequence so that it varies from one source point to the next; it can be applied to the individual vibrators within the source array so the source directivity is changed; it can be applied to the overall source phase of each source in a simultaneous source acquisition. Carefully designed phase sequences can attenuate the residual source noise, and this in turn allows extra source points to be interleaved between the conventional ones. For these extra source points, the relative phase of the vibrators within the array can be chosen to create a transverse gradient source, which illuminates the earth predominantly in directions out of the plane of the sail line without left/right ambiguity. If seismic vibrator data are acquired using interleaved conventional and transverse gradient sweeps, more information is collected per kilometre of vessel travel than is the case in conventional acquisition. This richer data acquisition leads to the possibility of acquiring all the necessary seismic data in a shorter time. Three‐dimensional reconstruction techniques are used to recover the same image quality that would have been obtained using the conventional, more time‐consuming acquisition. For a marine vibrator to be suitable for these techniques it must, in general terms, have ‘high fidelity’. The precise device specifications are defined through realistic end‐to‐end simulations of the physical systems and the processing. The specifications are somewhat more onerous than for a conventional vibrator, but they are achievable. A prototype vibrator that satisfies these requirements has been built. In a simulated case study of a three‐dimensional deep‐water ocean bottom node survey, the seismic data could have been acquired using marine vibrators in one third of the time that it would have taken using airguns.

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confidence: 99%

Marine vibrators: the new phase of seismic exploration

Laws

Halliday

Hopperstad

et al. 2018

Geophysical Prospecting

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The optimized imaging approaches for OBN data in deepwater

Xie

Guo

Zeng

et al. 2020

SEG 2020 Workshop: Broadband and Wide-Azimuth Deepwater Seismic Technology, Beijing, China, 13–15 July 2020

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Nonstationary adaptive S-wave leakage suppression of ocean-bottom node data

Chen,

Zhu,

et al. 2024

GEOPHYSICS

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Ocean-bottom node (OBN) is widely used because of its wide azimuth, long offset, and low frequency advantages. However, in the vertical component of the OBN geophone, a significant amount of shear waves induced noise may be recorded. This significantly impacts the quality of the vertical component data and may affect the follow-up merging of dual-sensor data. Some commercially available methods apply normal-movement correction, which necessitates velocity data. We avoid this by adaptive matching method, which relies solely on seismic data. Therefore, we developed a novel adaptive subtraction method for S-wave leakage suppression using the horizontal component as the noise model. Our method effectively handles the non-stationarity of the input seismic data in all time and space directions, mitigating instability caused by manual selection of the smoothing radius. A method is introduced for estimating a global non-stationary smoothing radius using the noise model. Compared to the commercial and stationary smoothing methods, our method can better suppress shear wave noise while balancing residual noise and signal leakage more effectively. Both synthetic and field data examples demonstrate significant improvement of the proposed method.

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Deepwater OBN - Exploiting data-processing possibilities

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Marine vibrators: the new phase of seismic exploration

Marine vibrators: the new phase of seismic exploration

The optimized imaging approaches for OBN data in deepwater

Nonstationary adaptive S-wave leakage suppression of ocean-bottom node data

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