Ocean Bottom Node Imaging
Drive operational efficiency and future-proof your investments with expert OBN seismic imaging
Unlock the full potential of your Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) data to reduce cycle times and development costs on your projects, by leveraging our unique combination of global seismic processing expertise, dedicated HPC resources, and market-leading time lag Full Waveform Inversion (TL-FWI) technology.
OBN delivers a level of seismic imaging precision beyond what is possible with towed-streamer data, giving improved structural imaging and resolution, more accurate estimates of seismic attributes and reservoir properties across the life cycle of the field to significantly reduce drilling risk and enhance recovery.
With over 100 OBN imaging projects completed worldwide in the last 6 years, in both frontier and mature basins, including over 20 time-lapse 4D surveys and the largest and most complex projects in the industry, you can depend on us to deliver the full value of your OBN data investment.
Gain Subsurface Certainty with our Innovative OBN Imaging
OBN seismic can reduce cost and complexity and brings value across the project lifecycle, particularly at the drilling and field development stage. As a high-potential technology, it is also future-facing and our constant innovation in processing, imaging and reservoir modelling continues to deliver gains in image quality and reservoir insight, enabling you to operate more efficiently and with greater certainty using the best available subsurface information.
Elastic FWI for shallow water OBN (North Sea)
The shallow water areas of the North Sea have always proved difficult for seismic imaging, due to the complex wave propagation caused by the hard water bottom and complex geology. The application of elastic FWI to OBN data provides a new opportunity to overcome these challenges and image the prospective pre-chalk reservoirs with new clarity. Read the case study in this 2024 EAGE Annual Conference abstract.
Carbon Storage monitoring with OBN (North Sea)
The full complexity of the Sleipner CO2 plume was revealed for the first time in detail using OBN data acquired in 2023. This First Break paper describes how a high-resolution 70Hz FWI velocity model was created and used in geobody extraction, providing new insights for CO2 flow mechanisms and volumetric analysis for this landmark carbon storage project.
OBN pre-salt imaging with Elastic FWI (US Gulf, Santos Basin)
This The Leading Edge article explores the application of Elastic FWI to OBN data for subsalt imaging challenges in the US Gulf and the pre-salt of the Santos Basin, to guide exploration and field development in the most complex settings.
Related Surveys
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Northern Viking Graben
Mitigate near-field exploration and development risk in the Northern North Sea with new dual-azimuth and hybrid OBN data.
Laconia US Gulf Sparse OBN
Laconia is the largest long-offset low-frequency sparse OBN survey in the US Gulf, providing a radical uplift in subsalt imaging across Garden Banks and Keathley Canyon.
Cornerstone OBN
Overcome the imaging challenges arising from salt diapirism in the complex Central North Sea environment with Cornerstone OBN.