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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1996
Dennis Corrigan, Plano, TX (US);
Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system and method for eliminating the effects of ghost reflections from marine seismic survey traces obtained via ocean bottom cables are disclosed. Dual sensors are used in the ocean bottom cables, to obtain both pressure and velocity traces. The disclosed method combines, in a common receiver gather, the corresponding pressure and velocity traces for each source-receiver path using several values of a scalar value that serves as a weighting factor. Conventional corrections and filtering, including spiking deconvolution, are applied to the combined traces, and the combined traces for each value of the scalar are stacked over a limited offset range. Autocorrelation and other spectral techniques may be applied to identify the residuals of the ghost reflections using each of the multiple scalar values; the optimal value may then be selected, for each common receiver gather, as that which has the minimum ghost reflection residuals. The combined traces for each common receiver gather are then used in conventional survey generation.