[SIO GP Seminars] Seminar Today, 3:00pm

[John Blum]

Richard Clarke, 3D OBS survey in the Gulf of Mexico.
Munk Conference Room
2:45 PM: Refreshments
3:00 PM: Seminar

On May 16, 2006, at 2:20 PM, John Blum wrote:

> Friday, May 19
> Munk Conference Room
> 2:45 PM: Refreshments
> 3:00 PM: Seminar
>
> Richard Clarke, a research scientist from BP, will be speaking about  
> a 3D ocean bottom seismic node survey over the Atlantis field, in the 
> deepwater Gulf of Mexico.  BP and SIO have been working together to 
> fund non-commercial seafloor technology projects; electromagnetic 
> methods for hydrocarbon locations, seafloor geodetic networks for 
> underwater landslides and tsunami hazards for southern California, AUV 
> development: all are higher development engineering projects funded by 
> BP that will hopefully produce several Scripps student thesis' and 
> work for our own faculty .  In the struggle for research funds and 
> ship time, industrial collaborations are becoming increasingly 
> important to SIO.
>
> Abstract:
> BP recently finished acquiring a large 3D ocean bottom seismic node 
> survey
> over the Atlantis field, in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, with water 
> depths
> from about 1300m-2400m. About 900 four-component nodes were used in 2
> patches; a total of 1700 node locations. The nodes were spaced about 
> 400m
> apart and placed and retrieved by remotely operated vehicles.
> The speaker will give an overview of the survey and then describe how 
> BP is
> processing this novel data set, including: the approach to timing, node
> positioning, geophone orientation, source side multiple removal, and 
> the
> production of images using the PZ summed data (primary reflections) 
> and the
> PZ difference data (receiver side multiples).
>
> Bio:
> Richard has a BA from Cambridge in Engineering, an MSc in Geoscience 
> from
> Paris VI and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Pau and the 
> French
> Petroleum Institute (IFP), working on reflection tomography with 
> multiple
> arrival travel times. Richard joined Amoco's Tulsa Research Lab in 
> 1998, and
> moved to Houston with BP in 1999. Since then he has worked on seismic
> processing and imaging with a focus on multi-component processing.
>
>
>
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> John Blum				
> Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
> Scripps Institution of Oceanography
> University of California, San Diego
> La Jolla, California 92093-0225
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> Tel: 858-822-4336
> Fax: 858-534-5332
> Email: johnblum at ucsd.edu
> http://insci14.ucsd.edu/~jablum
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