SmartPoint Seismic Data Acquisition System

Abstract

Seismic acquisition system is the most essential equipment in seismic exploration for oil and gas. Quality, efficiency, and accuracy of seismic data acquisition play the most important role in oil and gas exploration. True wireless seismic exploration is of great significance in "cost decreasing and benefit increasing" in oil and gas industrial. Seismometer and its supporting software are core equipment in seismic acquisition. With build-in features of eMBB, uRLLC and mMTC, 5G provides a good opportunity in developing wireless real-time seismic acquisition system. This paper is mainly about R&D progress of SmartPoint Seismic Data Acquisition System (SmartPoint system for short). Based on 5G, SmartPoint system consists of seismographs, software system, 5G networking system and auxiliary system. SmartPoint system takes good use of industry leading technology such as 5G, AI, Big Data and Cloud Computing to solve the difficulties of high economic and labor cost in seismic acquisition. Field test of SmartPoint system has shown some very promising results. From the current test result, we are confident to deduce that with the help of advanced communication and information technology, SmartPoint system will make seismic data acquisition much more efficient, economic, and less costly.