Innovative high trace density design with broadband seismic data acquisition in the Cooper–Eromanga Basins, Australia
John Archer A C , Milos Delic A and Frank Nicholson BA Geokinetics Inc., 500 City West Blvd., Suite 800, Houston, Texas 77042, USA.
B Beach Energy, Box 175, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: john.archer@geokinetics.com
The APPEA Journal 58(2) 773-778 https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ17111
Accepted: 13 March 2018 Published: 28 May 2018
Abstract
Through a combination of innovative survey design, new technology and the introduction of novel operational techniques, the trace density of a 3D seismic survey in the Cooper Basin was increased from a baseline of 140 000 to 1 600 000 traces km–2, the bandwidth of the data was extended from four to six octaves, and the dataset was acquired in substantially the same time-frame and for the same cost as the baseline survey.
Keywords: acquisition, impulsive, land, seismic, vibroseis.
John Archer is a BSc (Hons) Geology graduate from Durham University in England, and has been working as a geophysicist for 30 years. John started with Western Geophysical as a seismic Data Processor in their London Centre in 1987, before joining land seismic crews in Chad and Yemen. He joined Geokinetics (at the time it was Grant Geophysical) in 1990 working in Nigeria, and has been involved with technical proposals, bidding, crew financial modelling and crew startups ever since. John is currently Vice President for Business Development and Technology, and is co-inventor of Geokinetics’ Symphony® technique. |
Milos Delic received a BSc in Geophysics from the University of Belgrade in 2004. He is currently employed at Geokinetics as Director of Applied Technology in the Advanced Imaging Services group, dealing with processing of seismic data from all around the world. His specialisation includes time processing of land and ocean bottom datasets. |
Frank Nicholson has worked in the industry since the 1980s, beginning his career with Western Geophysical. After postings in Saudi Arabia, Canada and China, Frank (and family) moved to Australia and he is currently employed with Beach Energy Limited as a Staff Geophysicist. Frank is a member of the SEG, AEGE, ASEG and PESA. Frank has co-authored papers on geophysical modelling, vibroseis acquisition, multiples and was co-editor of the 2016 TLE special section: Australia. |
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