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Finding oil and gas

An exercise
introducing
3D seismic imagery

Finding oil and gas today


The seismic reflection method


Gulf of Mexico gas at about 1.5 km depth









QuickTime Movie!
A
presumed image of a gas reservoir in a 600 millisecond by 15000 ft by 15000 ft seismic data cube (2,435 kb in size).
The data used in this movie were provided by Amoco (New Orleans).

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