Patents Assigned to PGS Exploration (UK) Limited
  • Patent number: 7218572
    Abstract: Physical parameters are measured for an array of seismic sources, preferably for each activation of the seismic sources. Calibration functions are obtained and the measured physical parameters and calibration functions are applied to a model, which generates a calibrated source signature for the array of seismic sources. Alternatively, the measured physical parameters are applied to a model, which generates a modeled source signature, and then the calibration functions are applied to the modeled source signature to generate the calibrated source signature. Alternatively, modeled source signatures are generated for each seismic source and then the calibration functions are applied to the modeled source signatures to generate a calibrated source signature for each seismic source. Then the calibrated source signatures for each seismic source are combined, preferably by linear superposition, to generate the calibrated source signature for the array of seismic sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: PGS Exploration (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Gregory Ernest Parkes
  • Patent number: 6894948
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for processing seismic data from concurrently recorded co-located pressure sensors and geophones. The seismic data are processed by first determining an upgoing wavefield and a downgoing wavefield in the seismic data. Adaptive subtraction is then applied to at least one of the upgoing wavefield and the downgoing wavefield to remove the noise from the signal. In alternative embodiments, the upgoing wavefield can be used as a noise model for the downgoing wavefield or the downgoing wavefield can be used as a noise model for the upgoing wavefield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: PGS Exploration (UK) Limited
    Inventors: John Brittan, Joel Gordon Starr
  • Patent number: 6889142
    Abstract: A seismic data set is processed by applying a transform to the seismic data set that corrects for time shifts in the seismic data set resulting from azimuthal variation. Alternatively, a seismic data set is sorted to common offset gathers. Then, the following steps are applied to each common offset gather: A transform is applied to the common offset gather that corrects for time shifts in the common offset gather resulting from azimuthal variation. The transformed common offset gather is inverse transformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: PGS Exploration (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Michel Albert Schonewille
  • Patent number: 6751559
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for attenuating noise from marine seismic signals caused by a noise in the water. The method includes determining an arrival time of a noise event at each of a plurality of seismic sensors, estimating a position of the noise source from the arrival times, and attenuating the noise event from the signals detected by the seismic sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: PGS Exploration (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Gregory Peter Gwyn Fookes, Roald Gunnar van Borselen, Jaafar Ali, John Brittan, Jeroen Hubertus Maria Hoogeveen