TopSeis: Imaging Shallow Reservoirs through Innovation
The radically new solution for seismic acquisition and imaging. “Good things can come out of a downturn, despite what you might expect. Sometimes it can encourage creative sparks that help…
Geophysics
Frontier Exploration in Egypt’s Mediterranean Sea
Several promising play types can be identified on new pre-stack depth migrated seismic. Offshore west Egypt is a frontier region that offers significant and diverse potential plays. There are proven…
Shaping the Future of Seismic Interpretation
A quicker way from seismic data to geomodel – or how seismic interpreters have finally come to the centre of the exploration workflow From the advent of the first computer-aided…
Reflection or Refraction?
Taking advantage of joint acquisition and processing techniques: a case study in the Barents Sea Bjørnøya Basin. The Norwegian Sector of the Barents Sea is located in between the Norwegian…
Vietnam – Improved Images of Fractured Basement
Detecting basement reservoir fractures on Vietnam’s first ocean bottom seismic survey in the Cuu Long Basin It is estimated that two billion barrels of oil will be produced from fractured…
The Future of Marine Seismic Acquisition?
A new marine seismic acquisition method offers full azimuth, full offset coverage, excellent quality data and repeatability, all in a very efficient manner. Over the past 50 years developments in…
Minute To Read
SEG-Y Update Anyone that has worked with seismic data in the last 40 or so years will be familiar with the SEG-Y seismic data exchange standard. SEG-Y is one of…
Seismic Interpretation with Machine Learning
A methodology to deal with ‘Big Data’. Machine learning resolves two significant issues in seismic interpretation: firstly, the ‘Big Data’ problem of trying to interpret dozens, if not hundreds, of…
Why Leopards Can Change Their Software Spots
The take-up of innovative software is often held back by the effort involved in a long learning process Turning seismic waves into images of the sub-surface has been around for…
The Future is at the Bottom of the Ocean
Ocean bottom seismic has been gaining market share over high-end streamer acquisition. One of the ground-breaking technologies within acquisition is Magseis’ Marine Autonomous Seismic System Until recently, 90% of the…
The Golden Snitch?
Borehole Gravity for Reservoir Monitoring A shiny, one-inch round, miniature gravity meter is providing key bits of information about the distribution of pore fluids for reservoir monitoring. High-resolution borehole gravity…
Taking the Plunge: How nodes can navigate ocean bottom seismic into the mainstream
Norwegian start-up company inApril explain why they took the plunge into the ocean bottom seismic market. It is sometimes said that it took nearly 30 years for towed-streamer 3D marine…