July 2011
Features

Imaging drilling hazards in a congested North Sea field using nodal ocean-bottom seismic

To facilitate infill drilling at Forties field, 3D seismic data was needed to image any shallow gas accumulations, but towed streamers couldn’t acquire data beneath or near existing platforms. A nodal acquisition technology using ROV-deployed sensors filled in the blanks.


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