CleanSweep™

A Game-Changer for Onshore

Broadband Acquisition
 The Seismic Vibrator at the heart of high-end Seismic

 New Equipment  High productivity  Broadband

 Single Vibrator  Dense source grid  CleanSweepTM
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 Shot gather
Sorted by Offsets - 5s Slip-Time - Production - 300m dist. 2vib. per fleet (FFID#1029) Sorted by Offsets - 5s Slip-Time - CleanSweep - 300m dist. 2vib. per fleet (FFID#1075)
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Sweep emission Sweep correlation
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 Broadband sweep - Slip sweep with distortion
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Uncorrelated Correlated Shot simulation
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 CleanSweep distortion cancelation during sweep generation
Pilot Distortion Ground force
VibroSeis and Ground CleanSweep

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 Mean TF spectra without CleanSweep
Force (N) Force (N) Amplitude (dB)
-3. 105 0 3. 105 -2. 104 2. 104
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distortion free

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60 % reduction
40 % reduction
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Uncorrelated Correlated Shot simulation
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 CleanSweep gallery
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 CleanSweep

 True noise cancelation during sweep generation

 No mechanical, hydraulic or ground model required
 Distortion extracted from the ground force
 Anti Distortion is added to the pilot
 Effective for any sweep shape and duration
 Easy implementation on crews equipped with Sercel’s vibrator
electronics
 Iterations allow to reach perfection over all octaves
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 CleanSweep benefits

 Slip Sweep Acquisition

– Reduced Harmonic Noise contamination across fleets

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 CleanSweep benefits

 Slip Sweep Acquisition

– Reduced Harmonic Noise contamination across fleets
– No Harmonic on LF => Slip Time reduction

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5s Slip-Time - Production - 4km (FFID#2005)
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 CleanSweep benefits

 Slip Sweep Acquisition

– Reduced Harmonic Noise contamination across fleets
– No Harmonic on LF => Slip Time reduction
 Flip Flop Acquisition
– Reduced Intra Shot Harmonic Noise contamination

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 Intra Shot Harmonic noise contamination

Harmonic noise

Shot energy seen

up to 20km
Shot record

Very long tail

Mainly Ground roll

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 CleanSweep 18s Sweep/FlipFlop [0 – 125 Hz] (
18s Slip-Time - CleanSweep - 300m dist. single vib. per fleet (FFID#1154) 18s Slip-Time - CleanSweep - 300m dist. single vib. per fleet (FFID#1154 - 1158)
6 18s Slip-Time - CleanSweep - 300m dist. single vib. per fleet (FFID#1158)
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 ProdSweep 18s Sweep/FlipFlop [0 – 125 Hz] (
18s Slip-Time - Production - 300m dist. single vib. per fleet (FFID#1202) 18s Slip-Time - Production - 300m dist. single vib. per fleet (FFID#1202 - 1206)
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18s Slip-Time - CleanSweep - 300m dist. single vib. per fleet (FFID#1154) 18s Slip-Time - Production-CleanSweep - 300m dist. single vib. per fleet (FFID#1154 - 1202)
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 CleanSweep features
 Harmonic noise cancelation during sweep generation
 Distortion free over 4 first Octaves
 Overhall clean data
 Slip-time can be decreased because low-frequency are clean
 Productivity not impacted
 CGG proprietary technology

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 Acknowledgements & references

 CGG is grateful to Khalda Petroleum Company, Apache for being early

adopters of the CleanSweep technology

 We thank Shell for the data show rights

 Noise Reduction in VibroSeis Source, SEG 2014

Kaëlig Castor, Thomas Bianchi, Olivier Winter, Thierry Klein, CGG

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Thank you