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Shot scheduling limits for seismic acquisition with simultaneous source shooting

US9081107B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC. · US

Inventors

Raymond Lee Abma · Houston, US
Gerard Beaudoin · Houston, US
Zhiyong Jiang · Shanghai, CN

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 12, 2012
Grant date	Jul 14, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 26, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01V1/005
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the instant invention there is provided a method for collecting a blended source seismic survey that utilizes new approach to determining a random time separation between successive shots. The random time separation may be drawn in some embodiments from a distribution of uniformly distributed numbers, with τ>1/(2 f), where τ is the half-width of the uniform distribution and f is the lowest frequency of interest in the survey.

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