Exploration in the Shetland-Faeroe Basin using densely spaced arrays of ocean-bottom seismometers

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 490-501

  Hughes, Stephen ^a   Barton, Penny J ^b   Harrison, David ^a  

^a Mobil North Sea Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; PROVEN RESERVES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; NEAR-SURFACE LAYERS; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PROPERTY MEASUREMENT; SEISMIC EXPLORATION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VELOCITY VARIATIONS; VELOCITY-DEPTH MODEL;

VELOCITY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETERS;

HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; MARINE SEISMOLOGY;

ATLANTIC, (SOUTH);

EID: 0032029632     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444350     Document Type: Article

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