Best Practices from Super-Giant 3D-OBC Seismic Survey, Offshore Oil Field Abu Dhabi

Abstract

TX 75083-3836, U.S.A., fax 01-972-952-9435. AbstractThis paper presents the best practices and the lessons learnt from a comprehensive offshore 3D ocean bottom cable (OBC) seismic survey, which was successfully carried out over a super-giant offshore production oil field in Abu Dhabi by an integrated multi-disciplinary team from three different companies. This work highlights a wide range of challenges and achievements throughout the steps, from the feasibility study, data acquisition, processing, interpretation and advanced reservoir characterization studies.