Well, my calendar for July mentions a Start-Up Meeting, so maybe I should elaborate. After all, it was the meeting for the job I’m on right now.

We are doing the first commercial 3D Seismic Coil survey, and it is very exciting. A lot of planning has gone into exactly how to do the survey – both by the contractor and the oil company. Lots of modeling was done. New systems had to be designed and implemented. New QC procedures had to be developed. New software or changed software had to be designed and implemented. There is of course much more than can easily be mentioned here.

An article in the July 2008 issue of The Leading Edge, an SEG publication, has a good explanation, “Full-azimuth imaging using circular geometry acquisition”.  Download the PDF (726 K).  The WesternGeco website also has some further information here.

The survey is underway right now and it is going well. Please register to leave a comment or post a question.

* Geco Topaz photograph © 2008 by the author.