Seismic detection line having identified element and method

    公开(公告)号:US09798024B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-24

    申请号:US14518183

    申请日:2014-10-20

    Applicant: SERCEL

    Abstract: A seismic detection line includes one or more identified element(s) arranged in a string, and a telemetry link connecting the element(s) along the string to convey seismic data from at least one of the element(s) to a data recorder and identification data to a topology controller. Each of the element(s) includes a respective first identification unit connected to the telemetry link to provide a respective first identifier to the topology controller. A seismic detection system also includes a processor that queries the identified element(s) for their respective identifiers, determines an arrangement of the seismic detection line using the received identifiers, and presents an indication of the determined arrangement. A method of operating a seismic detection line includes transmitting a query along the telemetry link, detecting whether the respective identifier of one of the element(s) was received or not, repeating until termination, and determining and indicating the arrangement.

    LAND STREAMER SURVEYING USING MULTIPLE SOURCES
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170299738A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-19

    申请号:US15635392

    申请日:2017-06-28

    CPC classification number: G01V1/003 G01V1/09 G01V1/201

    Abstract: Various examples are provided for land streamer seismic surveying using multiple sources. In one example, among others, a method includes disposing a land streamer in-line with first and second shot sources. The first shot source is at a first source location adjacent to a proximal end of the land streamer and the second shot source is at a second source location separated by a fixed length corresponding to a length of the land streamer. Shot gathers can be obtained when the shot sources are fired. In another example, a system includes a land streamer including a plurality of receivers, a first shot source located adjacent to the proximal end of the land streamer, and a second shot source located in-line with the land streamer and the first shot source. The second shot source is separated from the first shot source by a fixed overall length corresponding to the land streamer.

    Use of vector rotational measurements and vector pressure gradient measurements to enhance spatial sampling of dual-sensor water bottom seismic data

    公开(公告)号:US09766355B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-19

    申请号:US14271976

    申请日:2014-05-07

    Inventor: Robert H. Brune

    CPC classification number: G01V1/189 G01V1/201 G01V1/3808 G01V2210/57

    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of a method and apparatus to enhance spatial sampling in all nominally horizontal directions for Dual-Sensor seismic data at the bottom of a body of water such as the ocean. The sensor apparatus on the water bottom is comprised of sensing elements for linear particle motion, for rotational motion, for pressure measurement, for pressure gradients, and for static orientation. Stress and wavefield conditions known at the water bottom allow numerical calculations that yield enhanced spatial sampling of pressure and nominally vertical linear particle motion, up to double the conventional (based on physical sensor locations) Nyquist spatial frequency in two nominally horizontal independent directions. The method and apparatus have a wide range of application in Ocean Bottom Seismic 3D, 4D, and Permanent Reservoir Monitoring surveys, and other marine seismic surveys, in oil and gas exploration and production.

    Noise reduction in a particle motion sensing seismic streamer

    公开(公告)号:US09759825B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-12

    申请号:US15074186

    申请日:2016-03-18

    CPC classification number: G01V1/201

    Abstract: An apparatus includes particle motion sensors and a streamer that contains the particle motion sensors. The streamer is towed in connection with a seismic survey, and the towing of the streamer produces a turbulent flow. The streamer includes an inner cable and a fluid containing layer. The inner cable includes a material to circumscribe and extend along a longitudinal axis of the streamer and circumscribe at least one of the particle motion sensors. The fluid containing layer surrounds the inner cable to reduce noise that is otherwise sensed by the particle motion sensors due to the turbulent flow.

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