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Technical Paper: What is the next step after WAZ for exploration in the Gulf of Mexico?

Society: SEG
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Presentation Date: 2009

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The concept of circular geometry for towed-streamer marine acquisition was introduced in the early 1980s by French (French, 1984). Due to the limitations in marine technology and processing methods at the time, circular geometry had a short time span. Recently, it was proved that is feasible to use this type of geometry to acquire fullazimuth (FAZ) data using a single vessel, if the vessel sails along a pattern of overlapping circles (Moldoveanu, 2008). This technique is called Coil Shooting* single-vessel full azimuth acquisition. In this paper we demonstrate the benefits of implementing coil shooting acquisition with multiple vessel configurations.

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