The urgency to unearth new oil is intensifying amid mounting demand on world supplies. Julian Rogers investigates.
Offshore exploration presents some very unique challenges, combining a variety of mapping and sampling techniques to try to form a more accurate picture of the seabed.
The quality of seismic data is strongly correlated to the quality of navigation data, and the best total quality is achieved when navigation and seismic quality control (QC) is carried out as an integrated process.
Five years ago, seabed logging was considered a fringe technology. Today, it can be used in a wide range of geological settings to confirm the presence of hydrocarbons before a well is drilled.
Eivind Berg, SeaBed Geophysical AS
Even if the application of seabed seismic technology have been linked to the main proven concept of imaging through “gas clouds” with shear waves