Frank D. Janiszewski

Improved quality control of vibroseis sources using vibrator control system generated files

Increased productivity of Vibroseis crews has made it increasingly difficult to perform detailed quality control analysis on the sources on a daily basis. Many of the new vibrator control systems available provide tools to help fully QC the sources and gain an understanding of surface conditions through files that are generated and output on a daily basis. Using these files it is easy to track vibrator attributes and statistics. The files can also be used to track the timing of the crew down to the second and understand the efficiency of the crew’s operations. These files provide a simple tool to help perform quality control analysis on the vibrators.