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Multichannel borehole hydrophone strings are a low-cost, low-risk, alternative to borehole clamping geophones. Vertical seismic profile (VSP) data collected with hydrophones, however, suffer from high-amplitude coherent tube-wave noise. This reduces the usable data to the first arrivals and traveltimes for check-shot surveys. To significantly reduce tube-wave noise from VSP data acquired with hydrophones, we have designed and tested a novel tube-wave attenuation baffle. The effectiveness of the baffle was first verified in a laboratory-scale experiment and then in a borehole drilled into a hardrock environment. The laboratory experiments tested the performance of four different baffle topologies, whereby the best performing topology was the semirigid corrugated pipe baffle. This design reduced the amplitude of the tube wave with more than 40 dB and was logistically easy to deploy. The field experiment investigated the effectiveness of three different semirigid corrugated pipe baffle topologies in a PQ (123 mm) diamond drillhole in Western Australia. Here, we found that the semirigid corrugated pipe baffle was effective in disrupting tube-wave propagation. The 100 mm diameter baffle achieved an impressive 60 dB of tube-wave attenuation, whereas the 50 mm baffle had a modest attenuation of 10–15 dB. This suggests that the performance of this new type of baffle is best when the diameter of the baffle is closely matched to the diameter of the borehole. The results of these experiments have significant implications because hydrophone arrays with a large number of receivers are comparatively inexpensive and simpler to deploy than borehole geophone counterparts. The development of hydrophone arrays that are free of interfering borehole modes could allow VSPs to be acquired in situations in which seismic-polarity information is not required and could help VSP gain traction in cases in which the cost of acquisition has precluded its use until now.
Multichannel borehole hydrophone strings are a low-cost, low-risk, alternative to borehole clamping geophones. Vertical seismic profile (VSP) data collected with hydrophones, however, suffer from high-amplitude coherent tube-wave noise. This reduces the usable data to the first arrivals and traveltimes for check-shot surveys. To significantly reduce tube-wave noise from VSP data acquired with hydrophones, we have designed and tested a novel tube-wave attenuation baffle. The effectiveness of the baffle was first verified in a laboratory-scale experiment and then in a borehole drilled into a hardrock environment. The laboratory experiments tested the performance of four different baffle topologies, whereby the best performing topology was the semirigid corrugated pipe baffle. This design reduced the amplitude of the tube wave with more than 40 dB and was logistically easy to deploy. The field experiment investigated the effectiveness of three different semirigid corrugated pipe baffle topologies in a PQ (123 mm) diamond drillhole in Western Australia. Here, we found that the semirigid corrugated pipe baffle was effective in disrupting tube-wave propagation. The 100 mm diameter baffle achieved an impressive 60 dB of tube-wave attenuation, whereas the 50 mm baffle had a modest attenuation of 10–15 dB. This suggests that the performance of this new type of baffle is best when the diameter of the baffle is closely matched to the diameter of the borehole. The results of these experiments have significant implications because hydrophone arrays with a large number of receivers are comparatively inexpensive and simpler to deploy than borehole geophone counterparts. The development of hydrophone arrays that are free of interfering borehole modes could allow VSPs to be acquired in situations in which seismic-polarity information is not required and could help VSP gain traction in cases in which the cost of acquisition has precluded its use until now.
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