Full-wave Imaging Solutions

Full-wave imaging addresses the E&P industry's most challenging seismic acquisition and processing situations, including:

• Complex acquisition environments, including seabed, swamps, deserts, and the Arctic, where surface and near-surface conditions make it difficult to deploy equipment or acquire broadband, high fidelity seismic data.
• Complex reservoirs targets, including those that are fractured, thin, highly faulted or steeply dipping.
• Time-lapse (4D) reservoir monitoring, where high resolution images (of both lithology and fluid location) is required and ambient noise from production operations can interfere with the quality of the acquired data.

The near-surface velocity imaging challenges of the desert and Arctic lend themselves to full-wave imaging. VectorSeis is a key enabling technology, but full-wave is about more than just the sensor. It's also about designing a tailored survey for long-offset, wide azimuth data acquisition, taking into account the nuances of planning a survey to enhance the P-wave signal and, perhaps, acquire converted wave data, and processing the data to account for azimuthal velocity and anisotropy. 

Challenging environments represent unique challenges whose potential can best be unlocked through cutting-edge, integrated solutions that incorporate full-wave technologies. ION is a recognized leader in developing technologies across the entire seismic workflow that are helping the oil and gas industry move into the Digital, Full-wave era, including:

• VectorSeis - our award-winning digital 3C sensor that allows the full (multicomponent) seismic wavefield to be acquired on land or from the seabed, resulting in noticeable improvements to final image quality.
• Scorpion - our cable-based land acquisition recording platform that enables high productivity, high station-count acquisition using either analog geophones or digital VectorSeis sensors.
• FireFly - our recently-introduced cableless land acquisition platform that was purpose-built to usher in a new era of fully sampled (high density), full-wave geophysics cost-effectively and with minimal HSE risk.
• VectorSeis Ocean - our redeployable, ocean-bottom-cable-based VectorSeis solution for data acquisition from the seabed.
• AZIM - our award-winning processing technique that accounts for travel time differences within the Earth's subsurface (anisotropy) as a function of compass direction (or azimuth).

Regardless of our clients' imaging challenge, ION has the expertise, solutions, technology, and global experience to help overcome them.  When you think of advanced seismic imaging, think of full-wave. And let ION put it to work for you.