Vintage Seismic Data with Current Prospecting and Imaging Technologies: a Case Study of Reprocessing from Offshore Mexico

Abstract

Summary Vintage seismic data from the late 1990's and early 2000's have been neglected recently as it was considered too old since most of the value had been extracted with processing technology without too much success. This paper documents our recent experience that before investing in a new acquisition, it is important to check if the vintage seismic data can provide new insights with the latest in time processing and imaging technology. A case study in shallow waters offshore Mexico, illustrates how conventional marine streamer data can still be quite valuable when carefully reprocessed with the technology available today.