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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andrew P. Shatilo, Houston, TX (US);
Richard E. Duren, Conroe, TX (US);
Assignee:
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/00 ;
Abstract
The invention is a method for attenuating noise in seismic data traces, in which at least a portion of the noise is noncoherent in the common-shot domain but coherent in the common-receiver domain, the coherent noise having a move-out velocity different from the move-out velocity of the data signal in the seismic data traces. The method comprises sorting the seismic data traces into common-receiver order and using the difference in move-out velocities to separate the coherent noise from the data seismic signal. This method is useful in suppressing noise in two and four-component ocean bottom cable data.