Bipole source modeling

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10878142-B2
Application number	US-201615280739-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 29, 2016
Priority date	Oct 26, 2015
Publication date	Dec 29, 2020
Grant date	Dec 29, 2020

Abstract

Disclosed are methods and systems for producing bipole source modeling with reduced computational loads. A method may comprise receiving first electromagnetic data and second electromagnetic data from a first shotpoint and a second of a marine electromagnetic survey, modelling a first electromagnetic field and second electromagnetic field for one or more dipole sources of a bipole source and combining a plurality of data points to provide an approximation of an electromagnetic field for the bipole source. A system may comprise electromagnetic sensors, a bipole source, wherein the bipole source comprise a pair of electrodes that are separated by a distance, wherein the bipole source is configured to generate an electromagnetic field, and a data processing system configured to receive electromagnetic data from a plurality of shotpoints of the bipole source and model electromagnetic fields for one or more dipole sources of the bipole source from the electromagnetic data.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A method, comprising:
receiving first electromagnetic data from a first shotpoint of a marine electromagnetic survey with a bipole source, the first shotpoint being from the bipole source, wherein the bipole source is towed and the bipole source comprises a pair of electrodes separated by a distance of about 100 meters to about 1,000 meters;
receiving second electromagnetic data from a second shotpoint of the marine electromagnetic survey, the second shotpoint being from the bipole source;
modelling a first electromagnetic field for one or more dipole sources of the bipole source from the first electromagnetic data;
modelling a second electromagnetic field for the one or more dipole sources from the second electromagnetic data; and
combining, via integration, a plurality of data points to provide an approximation of an electromagnetic field for the bipole source, wherein the plurality of data points comprise the first electromagnetic field and the second electromagnetic field and the first electromagnetic data and the second electromagnetic data each comprise measurements of a potential difference.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving third electromagnetic data from a third shotpoint of the marine electromagnetic survey, and modelling a third electromagnetic field for the one or more dipole sources from the third electromagnetic data, wherein the plurality of data points further comprise the third electromagnetic field.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising receiving fourth electromagnetic data from a fourth shotpoint of the marine electromagnetic survey, and modelling a fourth electromagnetic field for the one or more dipole sources from the fourth electromagnetic data, wherein the plurality of data points further comprise the fourth electromagnetic field.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising receiving additional electromagnetic data from an additional shotpoint of the marine electromagnetic survey, and modelling an additional electromagnetic field for the one or more dipole sources from the additional electromagnetic data, and combining the additional electromagnetic field with at least a portion of the plurality of data points to provide another approximation of the electromagnetic field for the bipole source.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising activating the bipole source at a plurality of shotpoints and collecting electromagnetic data for each of the plurality of shotpoints, wherein the shotpoints comprise the first shotpoint and the second shotpoint.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising recording the approximation of the
electromagnetic field on one or more non-transitory computer readable media thereby creating a geophysical data product.

7. An electromagnetic survey system, comprising a data processing system configured to receive electromagnetic data from a plurality of shotpoints of a bipole source, wherein the bipole source is towed, wherein the bipole source comprises a pair of electrodes separated by a distance of about 100 meters to about 1,000 meters, model electromagnetic fields for one or more dipole sources of the bipole source from the electromagnetic data; and combine, via integration, a plurality of data points to provide an approximation of an electromagnetic field for the bipole source, wherein the data points comprise the electromagnetic fields for the one or more dipole sources and wherein electromagnetic data from each of the plurality of shotpoints comprise measurement of a potential difference.

8. The electromagnetic survey system of claim 7 , further comprising a survey vessel, electromagnetic sensors coupled to the survey vessel, and a bipole source coupled to the survey vessel, wherein the bipole source comprise a pair of electrodes that are separated by a distance, wherein the bipole source is configured to generate the electromagnetic field.

9. A method to manufacture a geophysical data product, comprising:
receiving, with a data processing system, electromagnetic data from a plurality of shotpoints of a marine electromagnetic survey, the plurality of shotpoints being from a bipole source, wherein the bipole source is towed, wherein the bipole source comprises a pair of electrodes separated by a distance of about 100 meters to about 1,000 meters;
modelling, with the data processing system, electromagnetic fields for one or more dipole sources of the bipole source from the electromagnetic data wherein the electronic data comprises measurement of a potential difference;
combining, via integration, with the data processing system, a plurality of data points to provide an approximation of an electromagnetic field for the bipole source, wherein the data points comprise the electromagnetic fields for the one or more dipole sources; and
recording, with the data processing system, the approximation of the electromagnetic field for the bipole source on one or more non-transitory computer readable media thereby creating the geophysical data product.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising importing the geophysical data product onshore and performing further data processing or geophysical analysis on the geophysical data product.

11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising, receiving, with the data processing system, third electromagnetic data from a third shotpoint of the marine electromagnetic survey and modelling, with the data processing system, a third electromagnetic field for the one or more dipole sources from the third electromagnetic data, wherein the plurality of data points further comprise the third electromagnetic field.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising receiving, with the data processing system, system, fourth electromagnetic data from a fourth shotpoint of the marine electromagnetic
survey, and modelling, with the data processing system, a fourth electromagnetic field for the one or more dipole sources from the fourth electromagnetic data, wherein the plurality of data points further comprise the fourth electromagnetic field.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising receiving, with the data processing system, additional electromagnetic data from an additional shotpoint of the marine electromagnetic survey, and modelling, with the data processing system, an additional electromagnetic field from the additional electromagnetic data at the additional shotpoint, and combining the additional electromagnetic field with at least a portion of the data points to provide another approximation of the electromagnetic field for the bipole source.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with machine-readable instructions to control one or more processors of a data processing system to perform the operations of:
receiving electromagnetic data from a plurality of shotpoints of a marine electromagnetic survey, the plurality of shotpoints being from a towed bipole source, wherein the bipole source comprises of a pair of electrodes separated by a distance of about 100 meters to about 1,000 meters;
modelling electromagnetic fields for one or more dipole sources of the bipole source from the electromagnetic data; and
combining a plurality of data points by integrating across the plurality of data points, to provide an approximation of an electromagnetic field for the towed bipole source, wherein the data points comprise the electromagnetic fields for the one or more dipole sources, wherein the approximation of the electromagnetic field for the towed bipole source and the electromagnetic fields for the one or more dipole sources comprise measurements of a potential difference.

Assignees

• Pgs Geophysical As

Inventors

• Björnemo Lars Erik Magnus
• Skogman Carl Joel Gustav

Classifications

• G01V3/083 Primary

  Controlled source electromagnetic [CSEM] surveying · CPC title

• G01V2003/086

  Processing · CPC title

• G01V2003/084

  Sources · CPC title

• G06F30/20 Primary

  Design optimisation, verification or simulation (optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30) · CPC title