Three-dimensional (3-D) seismic exploration is a geophysical technique that has undergone rapid growth and development in the petroleum industry. It is a mature technology that has the potential to provide accurate volumetric images of the subsurface for interpreting the structural and stratigraphic framework of ore deposits. Under favourable circumstances, 3-D seismic methods can also provide ...

An experimental program was run by the Centre for Marine Science and Technology of Curtin University between March 1996 and October 1999 to study the environmental implications of offshore seismic survey noise. This work was initiated and sponsored by the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association. The program: • characterised air gun signal measurements; modelled air gun array...

We perform a feasibility study on the likelihood of seismically detecting and interpreting the time-varying changes in a North Sea reservoir during solution-gas-drive oil production from a horizontal well. This study integrates reservoir engineering fluid-flow simulations, rock physics measurements and transformations, and prestack seismic modeling and migration on a real but anonymous North Se...

The Marine Mammal Commission, in consultation with its Committee of Scientific Advisors on Marine Mammals, has reviewed the application submitted by the Statoil USA E&P, Inc., seeking authorization under section 101 (a) (5) (D) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act to take small numbers of marine mammals by harassment. The taking would be incidental to a marine seismic survey in the Chukchi Sea, ...

in data reduction processes through classifications applied to a wide spectrum of aspects—from traffic solutions and medicinal purposes to geophysical interpretations. Here we use an unsupervised approach where the neural network is free to search, to recognize, and to classify structural patterns in an n-dimensional vector field spanning the entire 3D input seismic attribute data set (Taner et...

In this paper, we are interested in determining the seismic velocity of a shallow under-ground layer from refraction traveltimes measures. We present a study case taken from an experimental seismic survey. The study case is a wide-angle seismic inversion using experimental traveltimes measures and based on ray tracing technique and genetic algorithms. The hypothesis on the velocity distribution...

GABRIELS, P., SNIEDER, . and NOLET, G. 1987, In Situ Measurement of Shear-Wave Velocity in Sediments with Higher-Mode Rayleigh Waves, 35,187-196. A seismic survey was carried out on a tidal flat in the SW-Netherlands in order to determine shear-wave velocities in sediments by means of higher-mode Rayleigh waves. The dispersion properties of these Rayleigh waves were measured in the 2-D amplitud...

detection of subsurface structures by means of gravity method can be used to determine mass distribution and density contrast of rock units. this distribution could be detected by different geophysical methods, especially gravity method. however, gravity techniques have some drawbacks and can't be always successful in distinguishing subsurface structures. performance of the gravity technique co...