88th Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting 2018 One World. One Geophysical Community. Anaheim, California, USA 14 - 19 October 2018 Volume 1 of 7 ISBN: 978-1-5108-8189-1 Printed from e-media with permission by: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 Some format issues inherent in the e-media version may also appear in this print version. Copyright© (2018) by Society of Exploration Geophysicists All rights reserved. Printed by Curran Associates, Inc. (2019) For permission requests, please contact Society of Exploration Geophysicists at the address below. Society of Exploration Geophysicists 8801 South Yale, Suite 500 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74137-3575 USA Phone: (918) 497-5500 Fax: (918) 497-5557 www.seg.org Additional copies of this publication are available from: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 USA Phone: 845-758-0400 Fax: 845-758-2633 Email: [email protected] Web: www.proceedings.com TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 1 LAND SEISMIC ACQUISITION P-WAVE AND S-WAVE JOINT ACQUISITION TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATION IN SANHU AREA ...........................1 Yongguo Wu, Zhenhua He, Jie Hu, Zhiwen Deng, Yongsheng Wang, Wuhai Yin 3D FIELD TRIAL USING A NEW NIMBLE NODE: WEST SIBERIA, RUSSIA ...................................................................................6 Chris Brooks, Amine Ourabah, Alistair Crosby, Ted Manning, John Naranjo, Dinara Ablyazina, Victor Zhuzhel, Einar Holst, Vidar Husom EVALUATING DESIGNS FOR SHALLOW TARGET 3D LAND SEISMIC SURVEYS ....................................................................11 Tim Dean SURFACE SEISMIC WITH DAS: LOOKING DEEP AND SHALLOW AT THE SAME TIME........................................................16 Andrey Bakulin, Ilya Silvestrov, Roman Pevzner THE CASE FOR A NIMBLE NODE, TOWARDS A NEW LAND SEISMIC RECEIVER SYSTEM WITH UNLIMITED CHANNELS .............................................................................................................................................................................21 Ted Manning, Chris Brooks, Amine Ourabah, Alistair Crosby, Mike Popham, Dinara Ablyazina, Victor Zhuzhel, Einar Holst, Nicolas Goujon FINITE-ELEMENT COSIMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN EDDY CURRENT IMPACT SEISMIC SOURCE..........................................................................................................................................................................................26 S. J. Rastin, A. Kepic, H. Nguyen GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR SEISMIC PATHWAY OPTIMIZATION ...........................................................31 Christopher B. Harrison, Philip Sokol, Paul Thacker, Allan Châtenay UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION FOR LAND-SEISMIC ACQUISITION....................................................................................36 Iga Pawelec, Paul Sava MARINE SEISMIC ACQUISITION BENEFITS OF CONTINUOUS SOURCE AND RECEIVER SIDE WAVEFIELDS.............................................................................41 Stian Hegna, Tilman Klüver, Jostein Lima HEXASOURCE: WIDE TOW-DITHERED SIX-SOURCE MARINE ACQUISITION IN THE BARENTS SEA ............................46 Per Eivind Dhelie, Vidar Danielsen, Honglei Shen, Thomas Elboth REDUCED SOURCE VOLUME MARINE ACQUISITION IN THE BARENTS SEA.........................................................................51 Per Eivind Dhelie, Vidar Danielsen, Cathy Walters, Thomas Elboth SHOT CODING DESIGN FOR POPCORN SHOOTING..........................................................................................................................56 Ray Abma ULTRALARGE-SCALE WIDE-AZIMUTH ACQUISITION AND BROADBAND IMAGING IN THE CAMPECHE BASIN........................................................................................................................................................................................61 Olga Zdraveva, Seet Li Yong, Elena Medina, Nadxieli De La Rosa Perez, Stephanie Savoie, Kevin Lyons THE MIDWATER STATIONARY CABLE (FREECABLE), A TOTALLY FLEXIBLE ACQUISITION TECHNOLOGY TO TACKLE THE SUBSURFACE IMAGING AND RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION CHALLENGES ................................................................................................................................................................................................66 Eric Bathellier, Luc Haumonté IMPROVING SEISMIC IMAGING IN THE BARENTS SEA BY SOURCE-OVER-CABLE ACQUISITION ................................71 Per Eivind Dhelie, Vidar Danielsen, Jan Erik Lie, Andreas Kjelsrud Evensen, Andrew Wright, Nicolas Salaun, Jean-Louis Rivault, Risto Siliqi, Claire Grubb, Vetle Vinje, Anne Camerer HIGH-RESOLUTION STREAMER SEISMIC ACQUISITION IN SHALLOW WATERS.................................................................76 Pedro Muñoz, Néstor Sanabria, Juan Uribe, Joseph Wolpert, Roberto Parrado, Luis Rodríguez MARINE VIBRATORS AND COMPRESSIVE SENSING IMPROVED OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY USING SPREAD-SPECTRUM SWEEPS FOR MARINE VIBRATORS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................81 Rune Tenghamn, Andrew Long, Christian Strand, Manuel Beitz A COMPRESSIVE SEISMIC FIELD TRIAL AND RECONSTRUCTION TEST USING REGULAR INDEXING ........................86 Tao Jiang, Yifeng Jiang, Doug Clark, Richard Gray, Doug Brost THE WOLFSPAR® FIELD TRIAL: DESIGN AND EXECUTION OF A LOW-FREQUENCY SEISMIC SURVEY IN THE GULF OF MEXICO........................................................................................................................................................91 Robert Pool, Chinaemerem Kanu, Andrew Brenders, Joseph Dellinger A MARINE VIBRATOR TO MEET THE JOINT INDUSTRY PROJECT SPECIFICATION ...........................................................97 Daniel A. Roy, Russel Rekos, Craig Brideau, Tristan Lawry, Charles Corrado COMPRESSIVE SENSING BASED DESIGN FOR LAND AND OBS SURVEYS: THE NOISE ISSUE .........................................102 Nick Moldoveanu, Philip Bilsby, John Quigley, Rajiv Kumar, Felix Herrmann AUTOMATED TARGET-ORIENTED ACQUISITION GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION IN MARINE ENVIRONMENT ...........................................................................................................................................................................................107 Sixue Wu, Eric Verschuur, Gerrit Blacquière COMPRESSIVE SEISMIC IMAGING: A LAND-ACQUISITION CASE STUDY AND OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS......................................................................................................................................................................................112 Keith Millis GEOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND RELIABILITY TESTING OF THE APS MARINE VIBRATOR......................116 Mike Jenkerson, Andrew Feltham, Nick Henderson, Vladimir Nechayuk, Marc Girard, AJ Cozzens BLENDED SEISMIC BLENDED-ACQUISITION DESIGN WITH IRREGULAR GEOMETRIES FOR WIDE-AZIMUTH SAMPLING.....................121 Shotaro Nakayama, Gerrit Blacquiere, Tomohide Ishiyama, Satoshi Ishikawa A LARGE-SCALE GULF OF MEXICO OBC SIMULTANEOUS SOURCE CASE STUDY: SHOT SEPARATION................................................................................................................................................................................................126 Penelope Barnes, Ian Moore, Marcela Ortin, Alexander Zarkhidze, Alfredo Vazquez, Silvino Dominguez, Jorge Diaz de Leon ISSUES IN SIMULTANEOUS SOURCING FOR VSPS..........................................................................................................................131 Ray Abma, Michael Pfister MULTICOMPONENT DEBLENDING OF MARINE DATA USING A PATTERN-BASED APPROACH ....................................136 Joseph Jennings, Robert Clapp, Biondo Biondi, Shuki Ronen BP PHASE II TRINIDAD: EFFICIENT ACQUISITION OF A HIGH-TRACE DENSITY 3D OCEAN-BOTTOM SENSOR EXPLORATION SURVEY..........................................................................................................................................................141 John C. Naranjo, Michael Pfister, Sean Cardinez, Kareem Vincent, Brad Cutler TANGGUH ISS® OCEAN-BOTTOM NODE PROGRAM: A STEP CHANGE IN DATA DENSITY, COST EFFICIENCY, AND IMAGE QUALITY ...................................................................................................................................................146 Johnathan Stone, Simon Wolfarth, Hery Prastowo, Danang Priyambodo, Ted Manning, John Etgen A LARGE-SCALE GULF OF MEXICO OBC SIMULTANEOUS SOURCE CASE STUDY: SURVEY DESIGN FOR EFFICIENT SHOT SEPARATION ...................................................................................................................................................151 Alexander Zarkhidze, Luis Arechiga Salinas, Franck Le Diagon, Jeff Thompson, Marcela Ortin, Penelope Barnes, Ian Moore, Miguel Juárez, Arnulfo Diaz, Oscar Esquivel, Horacio Nava MULTISOURCE ACQUISITION IN SALT BASINS...............................................................................................................................156 Marc Rocke, James Wallace, Paul Sandvik LAND EQUIPMENT AND CASE HISTORIES A CASE STUDY OF HIGH-DENSITY 3D GEOMETRY KEY PARAMETERS TEST METHOD IN WESTERN CHINA.............................................................................................................................................................................................................161