US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 15 for "System and method for simultaneously acquiring wide azimuth and ocean bottom node surveys" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,700, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"System and method for simultaneously acquiring wide azimuth and ocean bottom node surveys" was invented by Nicolae Moldoveanu (Houston) and Steve Fealy (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, via a processor, a first set of seismic data acquired via a Wide Azimuth (WAZ) survey. The method may also include receiving a second set of seismic data acquired via an Ocean Bottom Survey (OBS) simultaneously during a time period in which the first set of seismic data is acquired. The method may then involve processing ...