With
the current exploration industry challenges, there is an ever-increasing push
to improve seismic project efficiency in both cost and productivity, while not
impacting data quality. With the widespread adoption of nodal recording
technology, there remains a costly node hardware implementation and operational
burden to repetitively perform receiver spread QC. As channel counts continue
to grow on land geophysical surveys, the notion to frequently gather equipment
health statistics has given rise to an escalating workload, contrary to the
need for economizing. The full reasoning and perceived necessity for this additional
field effort is not easily explained, although when observing these endeavors,
you may easily surmise some lack of confidence in equipment reliability. Technological
and process advances have given us a means to simplify & automate with
electronic products that we implicitly rely upon; you turn them on and they
work, unfaltering, and unchecked.
Apply this to the far-reaching world
of seismic acquisition, and what you find is a functionally simplified node design
offers operators opportunity to take advantage of immense cost savings,
substantial improvements in production, and unquestionable reductions in HSE
exposure. SmartSolo have been fortunate enough to perform some of the largest
autonomous node projects, and the case for moving away from repeated QC of the
deployed spread has not only been compelling, but essential. The time, the crew
utilization, the reliance on additional in-field equipment and their associated
intricacies to go check each and every receiver, …the expense?
This shift in seismic acquisition
methodology is no longer just something being spoken about; it’s something
being done. Those that have already made the transition do not look back, and
are seeing the myriad of benefits applying this approach to geophysical surveys
large and small. In field operations, simple dependable equipment enables efficiency,
and a smarter way to work. SmartSolo®
