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7th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition
Manama, Bahrain
March 27-29, 2006
3-D
Seismic Acquisition in Complex Urban Area of Yumen City, Western China
1 BGP, CNPC
2 Yumen Oilfield of PetroChina
Some urban 3-D
seismic explorations have been conducted
in areas where S/N ratio is high. But the similar exploration
has not been performed in complex areas of western China
where the data quality is not so good, especially along
foreland h s t belts and mountain-front. In 2004, BGP
conducted one
3-D
seismic data acquisition project in the
urban area of Yumen city, the place belongs to complex
substructure of foreland belt in Yalaobei area of Jiuquan
basin. There exist many difficulties in seismic exploration,
some shots and receivers are difficult to be deployed
because variety of underground pipelines and cables and
basic infrastructures, there are many interference sources in
urban area and oilfield, especially the non-stop interference
from urban refinery and power plant characterized in strong
energy, broad band frequency. The underground of the
urban area is characterized in complex substructures,
shallow targets, steep dip structures and rapidly changed
faults and strata, which cause seismic wave very complex.
Considering the urban buildings and structures, BGP
designed the relevant geometry and implemented the real-time
analysis of shot/receiver points around the civil
construction, which well solved the layout issues of
shot/receiver and guaranteed the completeness of shallow
data. Through careful study of the property of interference,
a sets of seismic data acquisition and processing methods in
complex interference region were formulated which solved
the shooting and receiving problems in urban area. The
seismic data showing the clear inter-bed was first
completely acquired by joint application of above
mentioned techniques.