NEW DIMENTIONS IN SEISMIC TECHNOLOGY FOR

CHALLENGING RESERVOIRS

Seismic technology has achieved amazing feats in exploration and production activities in the past few decades.
It is the best process for identifying potential exploration of hydrocarbons and development of drilling targets
and drilling trajectories before drilling. Up to now seismic survey is used to image huge volumes of the
subsurface and indentify hydrocarbon reservoir.
With the worlds ever-growing demand for oil and gas, the emphasis in the oil and gas industry has shifted to
exploring deeper, more complex reservoir and to enhancing production from existing assets. Field life can be
extended by delineating bypassed oil and gas and by placing production and injection wells optimally. For all
these applications, the geophysicist, geologist and reservoir engineer require reliable and repeatable data of
exceptional resolution that can be fine-tuned to a specific reservoir objective. For decades, the battle between
signal and noise has driven the seismic industry to seek ways to suppress noise and enhance signal.
The advanced 3D seismic survey i.e. is seismic acquisition and processing technology. Now it allows
geophysicist to peer within the prospects in search of sweet spots.
In the raw data from the Point Receiver will have some unwanted noises like coherent noise and scattered
ground roll noise and ambient, environmental noises. These noises can be removed by recently developed noise
attenuation methods. After the noise removed from the raw data which reduce the flexibility of processing. Point
Receiver traces are the raw data which provide greatest processing flexibility. This Point Receiver Technology
will give the data sets acquired with uniQ systems facilitate processing to characterise the Seismic Anisotropy,
Pressure Bandwidth, Improve SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) and increase Spatial Resolution of Seismic
Images and Attributes. The resulting data enable to precise definition of rock properties for determining RQ &
CQ. This can be converted into 3D diagram of Reservoir.
This will help to find Sweet Spots and Drilling trajectories and Drilling targets. Examples from China and the
US illustrate how these data help resolve exploration, completion and production questions before drilling.

Keywords: Point Receiver Acquisition, Sweet Spots, Drilling Trajectories & targets.