Broadband High-Density Development Wide Azimuth - Application in the Gulf of Mexico

Broadband acquisition and processing can yield stronger signal at both high and low frequencies, for improved resolution and signal penetration. These benefits of broadband data can be combined with wide-azimuth survey design to gain the additional benefits of higher signal-to-noise ratio and better illumination of complex structures. For this field development survey in the southern Gulf of Mexico, a broadband, high-density, wide azimuth acquisition was designed to improve the imaging of faulted Cretaceous reservoirs under a complex overburden. The data were then processed through a broadband processing flow, and results were compared to the legacy images from conventional data.