Elements of 3-D Seismology

3-D seismology accounts for over 50 per cent of worldwide seismic effort and it is growing. Packed with illustrations, this text sets out to give you an understanding of 1-D and 2-D seismic concepts, historical and current 3-D shooting geometries and 3-D seismic survey of pre-design techniques.

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A complete reference on 1-,2-, and 3-D seismic concepts. Includes a companion CD containing eight QuickTime movies of various seismic recording examples, plus a SeisCom demo file for rapid calculation of 2-D and 3-D seismic quantities. Requires Internet browser and Microsoft Excel.
Contents: Section I: Seismic waves and velocities 1-D seismic review Interference and tuning; advanced topic: Raypaths and travel time Section II: Acquisition; financial aspects of 3-D seismic 2-D acquisition geometry Survey predesign Marine survey issues Land shooting geometry Marine shooting geometry Marine hardware and positioning Acquisition trends for the future Section III: Processing Processing overview, NMO, and binning Computing needs Dip moveout Migration I Migration II 3-D seismic survey predesign exercise Section IV: Interpretation Introduction to interpretation Data volume Structure Stratigraphy Seismic attributes Amplitude I Amplitude II Reservoir and drilling Seismic reservoir inversion Advanced topic: reservoir fluid properties Reservoir rock properties 4-D seismic Section V: Support material Mathematical symbols Bibliography Additional problems Exercise answers.