A marine seismic acquisition system includes a frame that includes a central longitudinal axis and members that define orthogonal planes that intersect along the central longitudinal axis; a data interface operatively coupled to the frame; hydrophones operatively coupled to the frame; a buoyancy engine operatively coupled to the frame where the buoyancy engine includes at least one mechanism that controls buoyancy of at least the frame, the hydrophones and the buoyancy engine; and at least one inertial motion sensor operatively coupled to the frame that generates frame orientation data, where the hydrophones, the buoyancy engine and the at least one inertial motion sensor are operatively coupled to the data interface.

A method and system for locating a reflector in a formation. The method may comprise broadcasting a sonic waveform as a shear formation body wave or a compressional formation body wave into the formation, recording a reflected wave from a reflector with the one or more receivers as dipole data by the dipole receiver and quadrupole data by the quadrupole receiver, and processing the dipole data and the quadrupole data with an information handling system to determine a location of the reflector from the borehole sonic logging tool. The system may comprise a borehole sonic logging tool and an information handling system. The borehole sonic logging tool may comprise one or more transmitters configured to transmit a sonic waveform into a formation and one or more receivers configured to record a reflected wave as a dipole receiver for dipole data and a quadrupole receiver for quadrupole data.

A sensor package may include a sensor housing unit and a first sensor that may acquire a first set of measurements within a first measurement range. The sensor package may also include a second sensor configured to acquire a second set of measurements within a second measurement range. The first measurement range and the second measurement range may include an overlapping range used to calibrate the first set of measurements, the second set of measurements, or both.

A horizontal acoustic vector sensor system described herein includes a housing which has a gimbal assembly therein which is attached to a sensor assembly which has multiple pairs of seismometers that arranged orthogonally to one or more neighboring pairs of seismometers, along an approximately horizontal axis. The gimbal assembly with sensor assembly are enclosed within the housing by an endcap which includes an electronics assembly. The multiple pairs of seismometers are wired to the electronics assembly through a slip-ring which allows for movement of the gimbal assembly without entangling the wires. The horizontal acoustic vector sensor system further includes at least one omni-directional hydrophone integrated into the endcap.

Methods and seismic data processing apparatuses use a down-going annihilation operator to generate an image from seismic data acquired over a water-covered subsurface formation. The down-going annihilation operator is derived using a down-going wavefield and an estimated water-wave extracted from the seismic data. The down-going annihilation operator may be derived in plane-wave domain.

The underwater acoustic test system comprises an underwater acoustic transmitting unit, an underwater acoustic parabolic reflector, an underwater acoustic receiving unit, an orientation control system, and a computer measurement and control system. The underwater acoustic transmitting unit comprises an underwater acoustic signal generator and a transmitting transducer. The underwater acoustic parabolic reflector comprises a central main reflecting area and an edge diffraction processing area, wherein the central main reflecting area is configured for reflecting acoustic wave signals, and the edge diffraction processing area is configured for reducing the influence of the underwater acoustic parabolic reflector on a test area. The underwater acoustic receiving unit comprises a receiving transducer and an underwater acoustic signal receiver. The orientation control system comprises a traveling crane and a test turntable.

A method and device determine seismic wave information, and a computer readable storage medium implements a method for determining seismic wave information. According to the solution, the method includes determining shallow and deep geophones from top to bottom in a vertical depth direction; determining, according to horizontal component signals acquired by each of the shallow geophones and a preset function, a polarization direction of the horizontal component signal acquired to obtain an azimuth of the shallow geophone; determining, according to an event inclination angle of a scalar signal in horizontal component signals acquired by each of the deep geophones, and a correlation between the deep geophone and a forward adjacent geophone in horizontal component signal based on the event inclination angle, an azimuth of the deep geophone; and determining, according to the horizontal component signals and the azimuth of each of geophones, a radial and a tangential component of the target seismic wave.

A leak-detecting assembly can include an array of hydrophones. The array can be moved within a hydrocarbon well. A variation in the Doppler shift caused by a stationary acoustic source (such as a leak) while the array moves towards and away from that source can be determined based on information from the array of hydrophones. The assembly can be associated with a passive system that captures acoustic signals directly from the source or leak and estimates a location of the source or leak based on measurement of Doppler shift in each receiver.

It is proposed a seismic data acquisition device (400) intended to be placed on an ocean bottom floor, comprising a polymeric casing (412) defining a chamber that houses at least art of a data acquisition system (440, 444, 445); and a metallic device (414) in which the polymeric casing (412) is trapped, the metallic device (414) comprising two metallic beams (4141, 4142) that extend on opposite sides of the polymeric casing (412).

It is also proposed a method for assembling such a device and a corresponding method for seabed seismic data acquisition.

A system includes an unmanned marine vessel having a hull; a multi-dimensional seismic sensor array coupled with the hull, wherein the multi-dimensional seismic sensor array is configured to acquire seismic survey data in multiple directions; wherein the unmanned marine vessel comprises a power source configured to drive and provide propulsion to the unmanned marine vessel; and an umbilical cord for coupling the multi-dimensional seismic sensor array with the hull of the unmanned marine vessel, wherein the umbilical provides electrical communication between the unmanned marine vessel and the multi-dimensional seismic sensor array.