Deep Water Survey Design Issues

In this study we address several practical deep water survey design issues that have arisen as a result of the availability of broadband acquisition techniques. The plethora of different available methods makes it difficult to word and evaluate tender documents from both a technical and commercial standpoint. Conventional acquisition is adapting because service providers are pushing for deeper cables and sources together with a processing based recovery of frequencies within the ghost notch. Several survey design criteria are presented in order to optimise source and streamer depth selection in a broadband world.