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Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 07, 2005
Applicant:

Johan Olof Anders Robertsson, Oslo, NO;

Inventor:
Assignee:

WesternGeco L.L.C., Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

The method presented accounts for three-dimensional effects when deghosting marine seismic data. The method relies on having second-order spatial derivatives in the cross-line direction available. The second-order cross-line derivative can be estimated directly or through indirect measurements of other wavefield quantities and by using wave-equation techniques to compute the desired term. The method preferably employs either a multicomponent streamer towed in the vicinity of the sea surface, a twin-streamer configuration near the sea-surface, or a configuration of three streamers that are separated either vertically or horizontally to estimate the second-order vertical derivative of pressure.


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