Abstract

The challenges in Seismic data acquisition are increasing day by day. Particularly for land seismic surveys, it has become indeed a very difficult task to have seamless coverage due to logistics and rapid urbanisation. Because of the logistic problems, it is becoming very difficult to place the seismic source and receivers on the pre-planned locations. The problem gets more severe where objective given for acquisition is very shallow. In such cases, proper recovery plans have to be made keeping objective of the survey in mind. Dynamic recovery is a term used when recovery and regular shooting are done simultaneously, which saves production time. This paper describes a case study of seismic data acquisition with shallow objective where, special recovery plans were made to overcome fold drop due to logistics and obstacles.