Sterling delivers premier seismic processing services for 2D, 3D, 4D, and multi-component land data worldwide, empowering clients to advance their oil and gas explorations. Our commitment to precision, quality, and reliability, fused with cutting-edge technology and extensive expertise, ensures our services provide a competitive edge to our clients.
We prioritize rapid delivery without compromising quality, meeting industry demands from small 2D datasets to expansive 3D projects. Sterling sets industry benchmarks in speed and customer satisfaction, offering tailored, superior service that defines excellence in seismic data processing.
Experience demonstrates that reprocessing seismic data results in significant quality enhancements. These improvements often reveal finer details and more accurate subsurface images, leading to substantial changes in the geological interpretation of a sedimentary basin.
Our process not only enhances the resolution and reliability of seismic data but also provides valuable insights that can drive better decision-making and resource management.
Advanced Seismic Services for Superior Data Quality & Precision
2D & 3D
Sterling delivers innovative seismic processing for 2D & 3D data. Customer rely on our results for successful exploration and development in both conventional and unconventional plays across the US.
Sterling offers comprehensive anisotropic time and depth imaging. Our VTI and HTI imaging with OVT decouples dip and anisotropy, enhancing fault resolution and reservoir insights. Precise depth imaging boosts geo-steering and exploration efficiency.
A high-dimensional Fourier technique minimizes spectral distortion from irregular sampling, generating new traces. This results in a densely populated, azimuth-preserved dataset consistent with well sampled areas of the original geology.
Sterling’s depth solutions provide a timely, cost-effective method for enhancing precision drilling and geo-steering of long lateral wells. Optimizing drilling in unconventional reservoirs requires both an accurate and high resolution image in depth.
We meticulously handle every detail in data processing, as accuracy in fundamental tasks sets the stage for complex workflows. When companies send us re-processed data, we often find inaccurate geometry assignments or errors in statics or velocities, which are costly. Getting the basics right is crucial.
Enhancing Reservoir Engineering Through Advanced VSP & DASeis™ Processing
VSP Processing
Sterling Seismic efficiently processes zero-offset VSP surveys (3C or DAS), providing detailed deliverables like time-depth relationships, interval velocity profiles, and primary reflectivity corridors. Our patented time-domain approach to 2D and 3D Borehole Seismic Image (VSP) processing bypasses Pre-Stack Depth Migration (PSDM) complexities, ensuring fast and reliable results. Using a wave-equation datuming algorithm, we transform borehole data to surface seismic data for accurate processing comparable to standard datasets, even for extensive 3D VSP datasets.
Sterling handles VSP survey design and planning, encompassing ZVSP, 2D VSP, 3D VSP, and time-lapse 4D VSP geometries. Using OMNI™ design software, we employ 3D ray tracing to model illumination at target zones. Additionally, we utilize VizPRO for ray tracing through complex 3D anisotropic velocity models, including mode-converted S-wave reflections. For advanced studies, Sterling provides 2D and 3D finite-difference acoustic and elastic modeling tools to estimate recorded wavefields for any survey configuration.
The seismic data acquisition capability of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) fiber optic systems provides revolutionary new opportunities for borehole reflection seismology to contribute to reservoir engineering solutions. Sterling Seismic & Reservoir Services has developed unique new seismic data processing technology that utilizes modern DAS data recorded on the horizontal leg of oil and gas wells to quickly generate seismic image results. The resulting seismic images can be used, along with rock mechanics analysis, to measure time-lapse changes in reservoir properties such as seismic velocity, pore pressure, rock stress, stress direction, and fracture density.
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