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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2018
Conocophillips Company, Houston, TX (US);
Peter M. Eick, Houston, TX (US);
Joel D. Brewer, Sealy, TX (US);
CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of determining an optimal flare spacing for streamers towed behind a seismic vessel comprising the steps of: using a computer specially adapted with a seismic data analysis package to analyze prior seismic data for a survey area; analyzing migration broadcast patterns to estimate a maximum sampling distance; calculating a wavelet expansion as a function of flare spacing; creating synthetic gaps in the prior seismic data coverage by dropping traces at different flare spacing; testing capability of different interpolation algorithms in the seismic data analysis package to close the synthetic gaps; and determining an optimal flare spacing based upon the capability of the different interpolation algorithms to close the synthetic gaps.