Discussions

A discussion of some more or less controversial issues in exploration geophysics.

  1. Noise suppression, prestack imaging and freedom of choice (pdf, 33 kb). Do we need freedom in the choice of receiver station locations?
  2. The effect of geophones and geophone arrays on signal (pdf, 191 kb).
  3. Comments to two papers in the Special Section on “Seismic Survey Design” in The Leading Edge of October 2004: Teepee technology applied to C-wave acquisition design (Thomas and Neff) and Seismic survey design in environmentally sensitive regions of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (Nyland) (pdf, 1.2Mb)
  4. Analyzing the effectiveness of receiver arrays for multicomponent seismic exploration, Hoffe et al., Geophysics, November/December 2002 (pdf, 79 kb)
  5. Quantitative measures of image resolution for seismic survey design, Gibson and Tzimeas, Geophysics, November/December 2002 (pdf, 200 kb)
  6. Comments to hybrid-gather patents.
  7. A discussion of conventional wisdom on 3D seismic survey design (pdf, 400 kb)
  8. Processing the Hod 3D multicomponent OBS survey, comparing parallel and orthogonal acquisition geometries (pdf, 175 kb), Kommedal et al., TLE, August 2002.
  9. Wide-azimuth marine acquisition by the helix method, Sukup, TLE, August 2002.
  10. Wide-azimuth acquisition, Cambois, Ronen and Zhu, and Narrow versus wide, Cordsen and Galbraith, TLE, August 2002.
  11. Moving shots on a 3-D seismic survey, Donze and Crews, TLE May 2000.
  12. Highlights of Geo2000, including discussion of Schlumberger's Q.
  13. Seismic illumination, Hubral, Hoecht, and Jaeger, TLE, November 1999.
  14. How to meet the "cheaper, faster, better" challenge, Deletang and Postel, TLE, October 1999.
  15. Potential impacts of vertical cable, Ikelle and Wilson, TLE, October 1999.
  16. 3-D seismic survey design as an optimization problem, Liner et al., TLE, September 1999.
  17. Highlights of 1999 SEG Conference. 3DSymSam best paper award for Albertin et al.
  18. Highlights of 1999 EAGE Conference, including overview of 3D survey design Workshop.
  19. Depth imaging of reservoir attributes, some notes on 1998 EAGE/SEG Summer Research Workshop.
  20. Quasi-random sampling, Sun, Schuster and Sikorski, Geophysics, 1997, 918-928 with Reply to reply.
  21. Interpolation (beyond Nyquist?)
  22. The Mega-bin technique, Goodway & Ragan, Proceedings 1997 SEG Summer Research Workshop.
  23. The RSI² technique, Wisecup, Geophysics, March-April 1998, 763-771 with Reply to reply.