This document discusses dual-sensor streamer technology innovations. It summarizes that:
1) Dual-sensor streamers, which record both pressure and velocity data, allow streamers to be towed much deeper (15-25m) without compromising data quality or frequency content. This provides greater operational flexibility and noise reduction.
2) By properly combining pressure and velocity recordings, dual-sensor processing can perfectly remove receiver "ghost" reflections across all frequencies and angles of incidence. This improves temporal resolution over conventional streamers.
3) Field tests in Australia found dual-sensor data contained stronger amplitudes at both high and low frequencies. It provided cleaner, higher resolution images in shallow waters and enhanced continuity,
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Streamer technology innovations remove ghosting and boost frequencies
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Australian Insights into
Streamer Technology Innovations
Andrew Long, Petroleum Geo-Services, andrew.long@pgs.com
of conventional streamers with the loss of been a forced trade-off between towing
Introduction
mid and high frequency amplitudes, dual- shallow to record high frequency (but noisy)
T
he evolution of towed seismic sensor data processing perfectly recovers all data at the cost of reduced lower frequencies,
streamers has progressed from the frequencies without penalty. or towing deep to record low frequencies at the
development of fluid-filled to solid- cost of reduced higher frequencies.
filled streamers, and from sensors that only A pressure sensor in a towed streamer always
record the scalar pressure field to combined records two wavefields that interfere with each It has long been understood that by recording
pressure and particle velocity sensors within other. The two wavefields are the up-going seismic data from collocated hydrophones and
the streamer. For many years the primary pressure wavefield propagating directly to the velocity sensors, and by properly combining
focus of streamer development was upon pressure sensor from the earth below, and the their signals, ghost reflections can be cancelled.
reducing weather, swell and operational down-going pressure wavefield reflected with The technology described here uses an
noise effects recorded within the seismic opposite polarity downwards from the free efficient architecture with densely sampled
data. Unfortunately, fundamental physics (sea) surface immediately above the streamer. groups of collocated pressure and velocity
related to “ghost” notches in the recorded Thus, every recorded reflection wavelet from sensors in a low-noise solid-fill streamer with
amplitude spectra restricted typical towing conventional marine streamers is accompanied distributed electronics and Ethernet telemetry
depths to 5–9 m. Recent developments by a ‘ghost’ reflection from the ocean’s surface. (Tenghamn et al., 2007). In contrast to pressure
with dual-sensor streamer technology, The combination we traditionally measure is sensors, velocity sensors are directional, so the
however, have allowed this restriction to thus the ‘total pressure’ wavefield. The reflection down-going velocity wavefield is measured as
be removed. Dual-sensor streamers can wavelet is undesirably elongated, reducing having equal polarity to the up-going velocity
be towed very deep (15–25 m), providing temporal resolution. The consequence, as wavefield. Consequently, as observed in the
greater operational flexibility combined with illustrated in the left side of Figure 1, is that a right side of Figure 1, receiver ghost notches for
a step-change in data quality and frequency series of receiver ghost notches are introduced the pressure and velocity sensors are separated
content. In contrast to the deep towing into the frequency spectra. There has historically in the frequency domain by regular intervals,
Fig. 1. The image on the left shows the receiver amplitude spectra for a pressure sensor towed at 8 m and 15 m depth. The wavefield is assumed to have vertical
propagation (zero angle of incidence). Black is 8 m receiver depth, and blue is 15 m receiver depth. The image on the right shows the superposition of the amplitude
spectra for both a pressure and velocity sensor at 15 m depth for zero angle reflections. Blue is the pressure wavefield spectra, and red is the velocity wavefield spectra.
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but are perfectly offset from each other in
terms of complementary peaks and notches.
Appropriate processing of the measured
pressure and velocity data will completely
cancel the amplitude of the ghost event trailing
each primary event, and the notches in the
amplitude spectra will be removed. This is the
case for all angles of incidence, i.e. for all source-
receiver offsets.
Historical streamer efforts to
remove the receiver ghost
It has been demonstrated that the noise effects
of weather-induced surface waves decrease
significantly when the tow depth is increased
to about 15 m or more. This can be seen in
Figure 2, which compares the levels of recorded
moderate weather surface-wave noise at tow
depths of 7 and 15 m.
Fig. 2. Weather noise levels at streamer towing depths of 7 and 15 m. The streamer used was towed to passively
record the ambient background energy without any active source firing. It makes obvious sense to tow deep if
Unfortunately, as demonstrated above, the effect
the receiver ghost can be removed in processing.
of the receiver ghost has prevented conventional
streamers from being towed any deeper than
about 8 meters. At conventional towing depths streamer spread being towed shallow. By grossly project flexibility. Both low and high frequencies
the low frequencies required for robust seismic relaxing the spatial sampling assumptions, the are boosted without compromise in fidelity
impedance inversion are absent, operations are methodology is less sensitive to streamer depth or accuracy all the way up to the Nyquist
exposed to surface-related weather, sea swell errors, and the deeper streamers are only used frequency. Thus, the only constraints upon the
and other hazards that will create unwanted to contribute very low frequencies to the final recoverable high frequencies are the effects
noise, and high frequencies required for thin bed processed result (e.g. 0–20 Hz). Thus, the trade- of the source ghost and the inescapable
resolution are also often absent. off is that mid and higher frequencies retain the attenuation effects of the earth. The source
down-going pressure wavefield effects (receiver ghost is briefly addressed below.
Several historical efforts have been made to ghosting), and have a signal-to-noise content
combine the frequency spectra of streamers appropriate to streamers towed closer to the Spectral enhancement in processing of high
towed simultaneously at different depths; surface. frequencies lost to attenuation benefits from
variously referred to as ‘twin streamers’ or dual-sensor data acquisition for two main
‘over-under’ towing. In the simplest approaches Many attempts have been made through the reasons:
taken (Monk, 1990), time shifts and/or phase years to incorporate vertical particle velocity
corrections are used in an effort to align and detectors into the towed streamer, but their 1. The high frequencies have signal-to-noise
combine data acquired at different depths. response to vibration noise propagating content appropriate to streamers towed very
More recent publications from Posthumus along the streamer always overwhelmed their deep; and
(1993) and Özdemir et al. (2008) describe response to the desired seismic reflection 2. The removal of the receiver ghost effects
extensions of these ideas to address residual signals. PGS eventually made the required have already boosted the signal content of
noise from the down-going pressure wavefield, engineering breakthroughs, and introduced a high frequencies relative to conventional
and reduce noise and errors introduced commercial solution (the ‘GeoStreamer’) at the streamer data anyway.
or enhanced via the methodology. On the 2007 EAGE international technical conference.
operational side it is obviously expensive Thus, high frequency amplitudes can be
and challenging to tow half of the available By having collocated pressure and particle robustly recovered before noise levels become
streamers at one depth and the other half of velocity sensors, there are no issues related unacceptable.
the available streamers at another depth. Each to streamer depth control and the removal
streamer spread will be exposed to different of the receiver ghost. In fact, the dual-sensor
Field tests and data analyses in
local forces and noise effects. In addition configuration enables a methodology to
Australia: The receiver ghost
to the well-known critical requirements to accurately identify the streamer depth to
laterally align the shallow and deep streamers, within 0.2 m on an offset-dependent and The test line location
a lesser-known problem is the sensitivity of shot-dependent basis. Any errors in receiver
the methodology to small errors in streamer ghost removal are thus identified and removed A regional 2D streamer seismic survey was
depth. As a consequence of vertical streamer early in processing. By towing the collocated acquired in two regionally overlapping phases
separation errors, the up-going pressure data dual-sensors very deep (typically 25 m) the over the North West Shelf of Australia during
derived from processing becomes less robust signal-to-noise content across all frequencies 2007 and 2008 (Figure 3). Water depths vary
at higher frequencies; typically beyond 70 Hz after removal of the down-going wavefield between 50 and 3,500 m. Phase I was acquired
in normal operating conditions. One pragmatic is high. This increased “insulation” from the with a 7,950 m fluid-fill streamer at a depth of
solution is to tow a smaller number of coarsely- effects of bad weather also increases the 7 m, and Phase II was acquired with a 8,100 m
spaced streamers at larger depths than the operational weather window and enhances solid-fill dual-sensor streamer at a depth of
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and offsets. The resultant up-going pressure
wavefield is free of the receiver ghost, and has
been extrapolated to an equivalent receiver
depth of 7 m for comparison with the existing
total pressure (hydrophone) data.
The power of dual-sensor acquisition and
processing is demonstrated here on the
North West Shelf (NWS) of Australia. A 156
km 2D seismic line in the northern Carnarvon
Basin was acquired twice; both in Phase I
(conventional streamer) and Phase II (dual-
sensor streamer). Thus, a true apples-for-
apples comparison was made. The NW-SE line
orientation is in the dip direction, and intersects
a known gas field associated with a pronounced
amplitude anomaly. Water depth exceeds
750 m.
Challenges to seismic penetration and
resolution
Much of the North West Shelf is affected
by relatively near-surface barriers to deeper
target seismic imaging and resolution. Major
sequence boundaries in the post-rift section
occur in the Turonian (Late Cretaceous)
Fig. 3. 2D survey location on the North West Shelf of Australia. The survey area is about 1000 km long. Two test and Base Tertiary. Campanian inversion of
lines were acquired in multiple passes to quantify the removal of the receiver and source ghost effects from transpressional structures was accentuated
streamer data. The line used to quantify receiver ghost removal described here lies in the northern Carnarvon by regional tectonism in the Neogene, and
Basin; in the southern part of the survey area. The line used to address source ghost attenuation described here is associated with trap breach in the area.
lies in the central Browse Basin; in the northern part of the survey area. Complex swarm faulting affects the Tertiary
section, and requires rich high frequency
15 m. Receiver interval in both phases of the Typical of the area, processing follows a content for high resolution seismic imaging.
survey was 12.5 m. A symmetric 2,980 in3 cascaded flow, incorporating velocity mute in Analysis of the dual-sensor data (refer to
source array of Sodera G-guns was towed at the tau-p domain, SRME and high-resolution Figure 5) shows that brute stack frequencies
a depth of 6 m for both surveys, with a shot radon demultiple. Pre-stack Kirchhoff time beyond the source ghost in the up-going
interval of 37.5 m. Record length was 12 s. Phase migration used an optimised high-order velocity pressure wavefield have much stronger
I acquisition and processing was completed function to accurately incorporate longer offsets amplitudes; up to at least 200 Hz. This
in 2007. Phase II (dual-sensor) acquisition and into imaging. Specialised pre-processing and particularly benefits thin bed resolution and
processing was completed in 2008. As observed wavefield separation used for the Phase II dual- subtle stratigraphic interpretation in the first
in Figure 4, the recorded pressure and particle sensor data followed the methods described in second two-way time (TWT) below the water
velocity data yield complementary information Tenghamn et al. (2007) and Carlson et al. (2007). bottom. Although no spectral enhancement
about the subsurface, and together in The obliquity term is automatically included processing has been applied to any of the
processing, result in significant data resolution, during wavefield separation, and amplitudes figures here, estimation of the quality factor
quality and deep target imaging improvements. are equally correct for all incidence angles (Q) is more robust using up-going pressure
Fig. 4. Near-trace gathers for pressure (left) and velocity (right) sensor data from the study area in the northern Carnarvon Basin. The window width is about 75 km, and
the vertical extent is 0.0–4.2 s TWT.
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data, and linear regressions using the spectral
ratio method have good fit down to about 3
Hz.
Carbonates are mapped in the Mid
Cretaceous/Aptian, and are more regionally
pervasive in the Late Cretaceous and Late
Tertiary, producing complex seismic multiple
noise events. The seismic multiple problems
become more severe to the north and east of
the survey area (towards the southern Browse
Basin), creating problems for velocity picking
and seismic imaging. Production velocity
picking was, however, significantly easier on
up-going pressure data, in large part because
of the characteristic low frequency boost at
all TWT (refer also to Figure 7 and discussion
below). A clearer primary semblance trend
Fig. 5. Superimposed amplitude spectra from brute stacks. Red is the up-going pressure data from the
is evident during analysis, and associated
dual-sensor streamer used in 2008, and black is the total pressure data from the conventional streamer
improvements in later stage velocity analysis
used in 2007. The time window used was 1.5 – 4.0 seconds TWT. Removal of the receiver ghost also benefits
amplitudes at frequencies beyond the source ghost at about 125 Hz. Processing sample rate is 2 ms. Fig. 6 subsequently derive from improved multiple
demonstrates the combined benefits of higher resolution and high signal-to-noise content. removal.
Fig. 6. Shallow PSTM comparison of total pressure (conventional streamer: left) vs. up-going pressure (dual-sensor streamer: right) stacks that are spatially coincident. The
window width is about 38 km, and the vertical extent is 1.3–2.7 s TWT. Over this depth range the up-going pressure data are visibly richer in high frequencies, very clean,
and demonstrate enhanced thin bed resolution.
Fig. 7. Stack filter panels for total pressure (conventional streamer: left) vs. up-going pressure (dual-sensor streamer: right). Data stacked at an effective receiver depth
of 7 m in both cases. Frequency ranges are as follows: All, 0-5 Hz, 15-20 Hz, 30-35 Hz, 45-50 Hz, 60-65 Hz, 75-80 Hz, 90-95 Hz, 105-110 Hz, 120-125 Hz and 135-140 Hz.
Frequencies beyond the source ghost (refer to Figure 5) have been truncated for display purposes. Processing sample rate is 2 ms. Note the low frequency contrast in the
second panel.
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Fig. 8. Deep PSTM comparison of total pressure (conventional streamer: left) vs. up-going pressure (dual-sensor streamer: right) stacks that are spatially coincident. The
window width is about 44 km, and the vertical extent is 5.0 – 6.8 s TWT. Over this depth range the up-going pressure data are visibly richer in low frequencies, very clean,
and demonstrate enhanced event continuity, character, and fundamental interpretability.
Although untested as potential hydrocarbon underlying Triassic sediments during the Early considerably easier to pick in poor data areas
plays, the two strongest seismic markers Cretaceous, and again later by the regional by examination of the up-going pressure
throughout the survey area correspond to Campanian inversion. Post-rift fault reactivation data. Additional low frequency imaging
Top Triassic and Callovian events. These two is more clearly interpreted to affect internal benefits were proven in the Browse basin
events can be easily confused with each other reservoir and trap geometry. using a dual-sensor streamer complemented
wherever the Lower Jurassic section thins by a source array configured to attenuate the
over Triassic structural highs – typically the Finally, the Triassic Mungaroo Formation source ghost (see below).
top of rotated Triassic fault blocks. Various is a thick pre-rift section that contains
investigations were made to address potential dolerite intrusions. Mapping the intrusives Quantification of signal and noise
hydrocarbon-related amplitude anomalies at is a key to constraining basin evolution;
the top of these Triassic fault blocks. The results notably areas of basin weakness during the It is self-evident that a seismic dataset rich
from a relative impedance inversion study are main Callovian extensional event. Figures in very low frequency content and with high
discussed below. 7 and 8 demonstrate the overwhelming signal-to-noise ratio across all frequencies and
improvements in deep target image clarity for all two-way time (TWT) provides the best
The largest gas field in the survey area is hosted and character on up-going pressure data. platform for the recovery of elastic rock and
below the Valanginian Unconformity, and was The deeper target velocity field is surprisingly fluid properties in a hydrocarbon-saturated
probably affected by fault block rotation of the variable throughout the region, and was reservoir. High frequencies required for thin bed
Fig. 9. Relative pre-stack P-impedance inversion for conventional (top left) vs. dual-sensor data (top right), and S-impedance inversion for conventional (lower left) vs.
dual-sensor data (lower right). Note the profound improvements in impedance character, low frequency content, and resolution for both dual-sensor results. A large gas
field is evident on the P-impedance sections.
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impedance information. Thus, a bridge is made
in the historical gap between the seismic
bandwidth and the low frequency bandwidth
derived from well log data and the seismic
velocity model.
The next stage of this ongoing investigation (at
the time of writing) will be to perform absolute
impedance inversions, and calibrate predicted
reservoir properties such as porosity between
well locations at large separations.
Velocity picking and model building
The survey area is infamous for regional
carbonates and severe seismic multiple
problems. In fact, many areas of the NWS
have historically yielded seismic data that is
too poor for even basic exploration efforts.
The upper part of Figure 10 demonstrates
the characteristic historical problems with
ambiguous primary vs. multiple trends on
velocity semblance, noisy and weakly coherent
energy on image gathers, and the associated
poor stacking results. In contrast, the lower part
of Figure 10 demonstrates a clearer semblance
trend, strong and coherent events on image
gathers, and an uplift in the associated stack
Fig. 10. Comparison of velocity picking panels for a discrete analysis location with conventional (upper) quality.
vs. dual-sensor (lower) data. Note the striking improvement in the strength and coherency of events and
semblance amplitudes on the dual-sensor panels. These improvements arise from much stronger lower Furthermore, it is our observation that dual-
frequency content and higher signal-to-noise ratio on the raw dual-sensor streamer field data. sensor streamer data acquired in all global
locations to date, demonstrate significant
resolution are inevitably and universally lost ■ At maximum frequency, the signal is improvements in low frequency content and
faster than low frequencies during transmission consistently an additional 10 dB (a factor signal-to-noise ratio. Thus, velocity model
through the earth. It is only possible to recover of 3 to 4) stronger than noise for the first building and multiple removal are greatly
some of these high frequency amplitudes at couple of seconds TWT below water bottom, facilitated from day one of any data processing
large target depths during data processing tapering to lower values as attenuation in project when dual-sensor data are available.
if the signal at these depths is demonstrably the earth affects deeper targets.
stronger than the noise component of the ■ The frequency range of signal is consistently It is worth noting that four unique wavefields
seismic wavefield. an additional 55–65% greater for the first are created during the wavefield separation in
couple of seconds TWT below water bottom, dual-sensor processing: up-going and down-
After data processing to recover the up-going tapering to lower values as attenuation in going pressure, and up-going and down-going
pressure wavefield, completely free of any the earth affects deeper targets. particle velocity. Whilst the up-going pressure
receiver ghost effects, a cross-spectral analysis ■ The signal-to-noise ratio is greater for all wavefield is the primary product for velocity
was pursued using methodology influenced by frequencies and for all TWT. picking, interpretation and inversion, the other
White (1973). The signal and noise components wavefields can be used for various high-end
of the up-going pressure wavefield were used Seismic impedance inversion comparison multiple removal and seismic imaging pursuits.
to derive frequency spectra for various TWT
windows. A systematic set of comparative A pre-stack relative impedance inversion
Field tests and data analyses in
analyses were then possible. was done for the 2007 and 2008 surveys
Australia: The source ghost
using a simultaneous sparse spike algorithm
In comparison to conventional streamer data, (refer to Figure 9). The wavelet through the A new approach to seismic acquisition has
the dual-sensor streamer data show significant target interval was extracted using a Bayesian also been tested in the southern Browse Basin
improvements in low and high frequency signal inversion scheme, but the well log data were during 2008, in an effort to remove both
content, less low and high frequency noise not used to derive any low frequency model. source ghost and receiver ghost effects from
content, greater frequency range for signal at all Thus, only the seismic data contribute to towed streamer data. Of particular relevance in
TWT, and greater signal-to-noise ratio of signal each impedance inversion. It is demonstrated the test area is the almost complete absence
across all frequencies and for all TWT: that the dual-sensor data inversion result on conventional streamer data of coherent
has contributed at least half an octave of seismic events at depths greater than about
■ At 10 Hz, the signal is consistently an low frequency impedance information in two seconds TWT. A 100 km 2D line was
additional 12–15 dB (a factor of 4 to 5) comparison to the conventional streamer result, acquired three times in a spatially-coincident
stronger than noise for all TWT. and has also yielded more high frequency manner during 2008: With a conventional
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Fig. 11. When a conventional source array (upper) has all source elements fired simultaneously the (down-going) primary and ghost source wavefronts are parallel to the
sea-surface, and effectively coupled by a constant time delay. In contrast, the staged firing of successively deeper source elements in the multi-level source array (lower)
decouples the primary and ghost source wavefronts. The ghost source wavefront is no longer parallel to the sea-surface, but the primary source wavefront still is.
source array and solid streamer in 2007, with of air gun elements at different depths. The strongly-represented at most locations along the
a conventional source array and the dual- shallowest sub-array is fired first, sequentially line when the dual-sensor data is used to remove
sensor streamer in 2008, and then finally with followed by the firing of successively deeper the effects of the receiver ghost and the multi-
a prototype “multi-level” source array and source arrays. Thus, the source ghost wavefront level source array is used to reduce the effects of
the dual-sensor streamer. The objectives in is decoupled from the primary source the source ghost. New plays are apparent in both
this case were to address signal penetration wavefront. In the test described here, two the shallow and deeper data. The data quality
problems by a combination of receiver sub-arrays were towed in vertical alignment at is in between the two results shown in Figure
ghost removal and source ghost attenuation. depths of 12 and 18 m. The deeper sub-array 12, when a conventional source array is used
Receiver ghost removal arises from the dual- was fired 4 ms after the shallow sub-array, with the dual-sensor streamer. Velocity picking
sensor streamer processing, and source coincident in time with the arrival at 18 m was greatly facilitated by the improved data
ghost attenuation arises from the multi-level depth of the primary source wavefront from the quality arising from the combination of the dual-
source array. Again, true apples-for-apples 12 m sub-array. sensor streamer and the multi-level source. The
comparisons were possible. output of this prototype source array was biased
Reference to Figure 12 shows that data in towards low frequencies. Future implementations
As illustrated schematically in Figure 11, the the target depth range of two to at least four will be designed to yield richer high frequency
multi-level source array deploys sub-arrays seconds TWT are now both coherent and output too.
Fig. 12. Raw PSTM stack comparison of the test line in the target time window of 2 – 4 s TWT. When the effects of both the receiver and source ghost are present on
conventional data (left) the target events are very weak, incoherent and impossible to interpret. In contrast, the dual-sensor streamer + multi-level source result (right)
demonstrates a profound improvement in event strength, spatial coherency and interpretability.
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The high frequency boost (up to at least 200 Hz)
arises from the removal of the effects of the
receiver ghost. Less noise is also recorded for
deeper streamer towing, stabilising the wavefield
separation processing. The high frequencies
benefit the interpretation of subtle stratigraphic
features and allow clearer imaging of features
affected by transpressional fault reactivation.
The pronounced low frequency boost has many
benefits, including better velocity semblances
(particularly in poor data areas affected by
carbonates), more robust Q estimation, and
significant signal penetration improvements for
the seismic imaging of Triassic fault block plays
and deeper dolerite intrusive features. Overall,
the dual-sensor dataset has better resolution and
is more interpretable at all depths.
Pre-stack relative impedance inversion analysis
demonstrates a significant improvement in
low frequency content and character, and high
frequency resolution. Dual-sensor data thus
provides a bridge through the historical gap
between the seismic bandwidth available for
inversion and the low frequency model derived
from well log data.
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Finally, a test using the dual-sensor streamer
combined with a ‘multi-level’ source array also
demonstrates the additional improvements
derived from attenuating the source ghost, in
addition to removing the receiver ghost. Data
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in one of the most problematic seismic areas of
the North West Shelf of Australia is improved.
Collectively, the pioneering lessons learned on
the NW Shelf Australia demonstrate the diverse
opportunities possible when the receiver
and source ghost effects can be robustly and
accurately removed.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to ESSO Australia and BHP Petroleum
for access to the well data used for wavelet
extraction in the seismic inversion exercise.
DownUnder GeoSolutions produced the
inversion results.
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