Workshop 21
OBS Acquisition Productivity and Efficiency – Technology Trends and Disruptors. Friday, June 12Th | room 13
Convenors
- Ted Manning (bp)
- James Southgate (bp)
- Dominic Lawrence (bp)
- Mark Rocke (TGS)
- Tim Bunting (PXGEO)
- Ed Hager (BGP)
- Chris Walker (BGP)
- Xander Campman (Shell)
- Gary Poole (slb)
Description
This workshop will explore the current status of seismic on the seafloor (OBS) and determine if existing technology is at the top of its technology S-curve, ripe for disruption with new technology accelerated by the digital age and growth in marine autonomy and robotics. What expectations should you have for these revolutionary technologies? What will the impact be for safety, survey cost, image quality, and schedule? This workshop will critically assess the productivity and efficiency of existing, next-generation, and generation after next OBS acquisition technologies. Alternative new seismic acquisition technologies not on the seabed will also be compared. Perspectives from the client, service, and equipment manufacturer sides will be presented, and the adjacent industry progress contrasted. The workshop aims to accelerate OBN technology development and adoption to continue to lower the cost per trace and drive the next step change in subsurface image quality and resolution.
Sub-Topics that will be covered in the workshop:
- Source equipment productivity and efficiency
- Receiver equipment productivity and efficiency
- Survey design and simulated operation models with implications of survey design on processing
- Impact on safety for both personnel and the environment with new technology and techniques
- Field Trials of new methods and technology
- Barriers to productivity and efficiency, including environmental and regulatory
- Case studies of methods and achieved productivity and efficiency statistics.
Participant Profile
The forum is targeted at seismic and geophysical professionals, with special interest for professionals in survey design, survey operations, seismic processing, and imaging (with an interest in what limits the data they receive).
Workshop Programme
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Welcome, introductions and context |
| Session 1 - What is OBN productivity and efficiency?
Chairs: Ted Manning and James Southgate | |
| 09:15 | Keynote - OBN, today, tomorrow and in the future. What will the next wave look like? - Per Eivind Dhelie (Aker BP) |
| 09:45 | Manning bp Productivity and Efficiency Introduction - what do we mean? |
| Session 2 - What is OBN state of the art? Part I Chairs: Chris Walker and Tim Bunting | |
| 10:00 | Exploring OBN survey efficiency over the last decade - Warren Grey (Seisintel) |
| 10:15 | Back to Basics to Advance OBN in Exploration - Xander Campman (Shell) |
| 10:30 | Nile Delta OBN Productivity and Efficiency Comparisons - James Southgate (bp) |
| 10:45 | Deep Water OBN Productivity on Sparse and Dense Surveys - Tim Bunting (PXGEO) |
| 11:00 | Break |
| Session 2 - What is OBN state of the art? Part II Chairs: Chris Walker and Tim Bunting | |
| 11:15 | Deepwater GOA Productivity Insights - John Naranjo (bp) |
| 11:30 | End to end workflow to drive efficiency - Mark Zajac (TGS) |
| 11:45 | Large scale Multiclient OBN surveys – optimization from an asset light company perspective - Gary Poole (SLB) |
| 12:00 | Improving OBN Survey efficiency while Reducing Risk Exposure and Emissions - Using Single High-Capacity Multi-Purpose Vessels - Christian Strand (Shearwater) |
| 12:15 | Shallow Water and Transition Zone OBN Data Acquisition – the State-of-the-Art - Ed Hager (BGP) |
| 12:30 | Leveraging Metric Driven Workflows for Complex Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) Projects - Rosie Andrews (Sercel) |
| 12:45 | Meeting the Requirements for Conventional and FWI Acquisition by Harnessing the Power of USVs - Damian Hite (Acteq) |
| 13:00 | Damian Hite Acteq - Madjid Berraki (Equinor) |
| 13:15 | Recap of morning |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
| Session 3 - Non traditional nodal solutions Chairs: Xander Campman and Christian Strand | |
| 14:30 | Autonomous Surface Nodes - Nikolay Amelin (Geology Without Limits) |
| 14:45 | Oceaid Self Navigating OBN Drone - David Galbraith (iDrop) |
| 15:00 | "Drop & Pop" Floating Ocean Bottom Nodes for Cost Effective Seismic Acquisition - Didier Lecerf (TGS) |
| 15:15 | Disruptive node deployment technology significantly reduces OBN data acquisition cost - Ivar Gimse (Allton) |
| 15:30 | Break |
| Session 4 - OBN generation next and future developments Chairs: Christian Strand and Gary Poole | |
| 15:45 | Transforming Marine Seismic Through Autonomy - Ali Alfaraj (Aramco) |
| 16:00 | Marine autonomy and robotics expected impact on OBN productivity, efficiency and sustainability - Ted Manning (bp) |
| 16:15 | A “Developing” Subsea Solution for OBN Deployment and Recovery - Tim Bunting (PXGEO) |
| 16:30 | Can FWI have more impact on 4D data acquisition than imaging? - Chris Walker (BGP) |
| 16:45 | Recap of workshop |
| 17:00 | END |
| Posters | |
| Diminishing Returns in OBN Fleet Configuration: A Batch Simulation Approach to Right-Sizing Vessel count and Arrival Stagger - Hugo Humphreys (Sercel) | |
| An unmanned solution to the transition zone receiver problem - Damian Hite (Acteq) | |
| A simulation based workflow for evaluating OBN survey efficiency - Marcus Van Jager (Engenius) |