The Leading Edge · 1997 · 22 citations · 3 references
Natural SciencesEarth SciencesGeophysicsMarine GeophysicsReservoir CharacterizationSeismologyGeophysical Data ProcessingSeismic Data AcquisitionSeismic Data ProcessingSeismic ExplorationSeismic ImagingSeismic Instrumentation3D Seismic AcquisitionHigh-resolution Seismic AcquisitionOcean Bottom Seismic Data ProcessingSeafloor Data AcquisitionSeismic Imaging Of ReservoirsSeismic ProcessingThree-dimensional Seismic ImagingTime-lapse Seismic Imaging
Recent advances allow time-lapse 3-D (sometimes called 4-D) seismic surveys to map gas-oil and oil-water contacts. Some have used “legacy” 3-D data (i.e., data not originally acquired for a 4-D study) and found that the varying quality of the different vintages of the data limited the resolution that could be attained. How then, do we best carry out acquisition and processing for a 4-D seismic program so that the data are repeatable to the extent that differences are attributable to movement of the reservoir fluids and not to the acquisition, processing, or other factors?
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3‐D seismic imaging of heat zones at an Athabasca Tar Sands Thermal Pilot
Norman E. Pullin, Ronald Jackson, Larry Matthews et al. · 1987 · 13 citations