Step Change in 3D Two-Component OBC Seismic Imaging in the Arabian Gulf

The common industry approach to the processing of 3D,<br>two-component (2C), Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC) data<br>includes summing the hydrophone and geophone sensors at an<br>early stage of the processing sequence. In this paper, we<br>demonstrate that a step change in seismic imaging quality has<br>been achieved on a shallow water Arabian Gulf dataset via<br>completely separate processing of the hydrophone and<br>geophone data through CMP stack. The results of this work<br>are compared with those obtained using more conventional<br>approachs.