Design of Land 3D Seismic Surveys with OMNI 3D®

Basic Land Survey Design Concepts and Most Common Acquisition Configurations

• Introduction: the land survey design workflow

• OMNI 3D® interface and project tree description

• Project management

• Orthogonal surveys

• Fold plots: Subsurface fold, unique fold, effective fold, cube of fold with depth.

• Offset distribution plots

• Azimuth distribution plots

• Skewed surveys

• Staggered surveys

• Brick surveys

• Converted wave orthogonal surveys

• Offset Vector Tiles (OVTs) and other minimal datasets 

• Interaction with Bing maps

• VSP surveys

At the end of the session the student will be able to explain parallel, orthogonal areal and random acquisition geometries. They will be able to explain the essential acquisition parameters and how to select them. They will be able to demonstrate the different elements of the OMNI 3D® interface and create and edit orthogonal, skewed, staggered and other land geometries in OMNI 3D®.                

Production Tools and 2D Ray Tracing and Wave Equation Modelling

• SPS files

• Obstacles, editing source and receiver stations

• Boundaries

• Plot tab: tools to create images for reports

• Reports

• Status files

• 2D ray tracing modelling and analyses

• 2D wave equation modelling

At the end of the session the student will be able to import and export surveys in SPS format, edit surveys and move, toggle, insert and delete stations. They will be able to layout a survey inside a given boundary and efficiently create images and reports. They will be able to use the Status Tool to automatically update plots with newly acquired data. They will be able to create 2D earth models for 2D ray tracing and wave equation modelling and be able to use ray tracing analyses and synthetics for acquisition parameter estimation.                

3D Ray Tracing and Target Analysis

• Target analyses: Migration aperture, resolution, Maximum Offset, Amplitude Attenuation etc.

• 3D Bin Grid Velocity Models analyses

• 3D ray tracing model

• 3D synthetic datasets

• Illumination

• Footprint

• PSTM response

• Fresnel Zone

• AVO

• Array analyses

At the end of the session the student will be able to create a 3D earth model, use the model to perform target analysis and create 3D synthetics using ray tracing. They will be able to perform illumination of a target and use the Workshop tools to perform analysis to predict footprint, PSTM response and AVO response for a survey.