- Patent Title: Method and system of calculating hypocenters of microseismic events
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Application No.: US14602429Application Date: 2015-01-22
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Publication No.: US10228477B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Alexander V. Goertz , Joseph Richardson
- Applicant: PGS Geophysical AS
- Applicant Address: NO Oslo
- Assignee: PGS Geophysical AS
- Current Assignee: PGS Geophysical AS
- Current Assignee Address: NO Oslo
- Main IPC: G01V1/28
- IPC: G01V1/28 ; G01V1/38

Abstract:
Calculating hypocenters of microseismic events. At least some of the example embodiments are methods including: detecting seismic waves from a microseismic event, the detecting by a sensor array disposed on a seafloor, the microseismic event originating in a formation below the sensor array, and the detecting creates received data; separating the received data into up-going data and down-going data, the down-going data indicative of detected seismic waves after a first reflection of the seismic waves at a sea surface; and calculating a hypocenter of the microseismic event using both the up-going data and the first down-going data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160109590A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CALCULATING HYPOCENTERS OF MICROSEISMIC EVENTS Public/Granted day:2016-04-21
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