US 12,135,399 B2
Method of optimizing seismic acquisition
Takashi Mizuno, Sugar Land, TX (US); Pierre Bettinelli, Cedex (FR); and Joel Herve Le Calvez, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Appl. No. 18/697,947
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 13, 2022, PCT No. PCT/US2022/046545
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 2, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/064453, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 20, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/255,230, filed on Oct. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0329270 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. G01V 1/42 (2006.01); G01V 1/00 (2024.01)
CPC G01V 1/42 (2013.01) [G01V 1/003 (2013.01); G01V 2200/14 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for optimizing a seismic survey design comprising:
obtaining a well trajectory;
determining a depth range of one or more receivers and a measurement interval for the seismic survey;
determining an optimal seismic shot position for each of the one or more receivers within the depth range using an inverse function based on the depth range of the one or more receivers and the measurement interval for the seismic survey;
determining one or more potential seismic shot configurations, wherein each of the one or more potential seismic shot configurations includes a number of seismic shots, a location for each of the number of seismic shots, and a power of each of the seismic shots, and wherein each of the one or more potential seismic shot configurations are determined based on the optimal seismic shot position for each of the one or more receivers within the depth range;
determining an estimate of a data quality for each of the determined one or more potential seismic shot configurations using an objective function;
determining an optimum seismic survey design based on the determined estimated data quality for each of the determined one or more potential seismic shot configurations, wherein the estimated data quality for the optimum seismic survey design is greater than a predetermined minimum threshold.