Repurposing

As Sir David Attenborough once said, "If there's one thing we all have to do, it is to avoid waste".

When screening marine sites for the development of Offshore Wind, Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Storage, Geological Disposal Facility, it is worth considering what existing seismic data may exist over that area, even datasets that were not designed for those purposes when they were originally acquired. Chances are, if there is 2D/3D seismic data available over your location, useful information can be extracted if processed to optimise the shallow subsurface image.

Offshore UK alone, the National Data Repository (NDR) contains large seismic data volumes available to download. However, these data were acquired and processed to image deep exploration targets for the O&G industry and disregarded shallow information that is important to you.

Our Repurposing workflow starts from the original (raw) data, before the important shallow subsurface information was typically disposed of during the original processing. The Repurposing processing sequence to achieve the following:

• Reveal potential shallow hazards

• Increase precision of seabed

• Resolution to map bedrock horizons within foundation zones

• Low frequency content to increase sharpness of faults

• Focused shallow water demultiple

• Overall reduction in noise

Read this article on our available data and the 2021 project to Repurpose O&G seismic for SSE, Marubeni and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP).

We have worked in the O&G seismic processing industry for many years, so can help you understand what data might be available over your site, ease and cost of accessing field tapes, usefulness of the data for reducing your exposure to unforeseen ground conditions at an earlier stage of your development.

Contact us to find out more.

Related services: UHRS Reprocessing, Legacy Seismic Reprocessing, Depth Imaging