US Patent Issued to PGS Geophysical AS on Aug. 11 for "Long offset acquisition" (American, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,654, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PGS Geophysical AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Long offset acquisition" was invented by Stig Rune Lennart Tenghamn (Hollywood, Fla.), Neil Paddy (Houston) and Manuel Beitz (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vessel is configured to tow a marine seismic source, a spread of standard-offset streamers, and a long-offset streamer in a manner such that: a standard streamer maximum offset, measured from the at least one source to an aft-most receiver in the standard-offset streamers, is not more than 20 km; and a long-offset streamer maximum offset, measured between the at least one source and an aft-...