f How can we Obtain High-quality Cost-effective Seismic Acquisition for Permanent Reservoir Monitoring?

The following factors may assist in obtaining improved visibility on future seismic acquisition cost as well as contribute to attract interest with acknowledged seismic service providers to compete on tenders for shooting data acquisition: - Collaboration between several field operators to ensure a high utilization of the vessel. - Long term contract with pre-determined prices (e.g. 5 years) with source vessel service providers. . A seismic service provider that can package acquisition and processing will typically also improve the turnaround time of processing, which is crucial for PRM. Accurate source positioning will also help in improving repeatability and hence improve the 4D Signal-to-Noise ratio. There is also currently significant emphasize on the source technology to improve the source signal as well as reducing its potential impact on the environment. Some of these improvements may not be easily available for an ad hoc such as rigging a supply vessel. Hence, it is reasonable to assume that the quality as well as the HSE aspects is better handled with a dedicated source vessel.