Seeing Below the Basalt, Offshore Faroes

G038 Seeing Below the Basalt Offshore Faroes Introduction 1 Statoil as operator for Faroes licences FL003 and FL006 with its partners has since 2000 acquired both conventional and non-conventional 3D seismic data in the Faroes offshore. In particular long offset 2D and 3D seismic has been acquired over the area of thicker basalt coverage around FL006. Acquisition included the use of a deep-towed large bubble-tuned source and deep-towed receiver cables for the 3D survey. Processing of the 3D data focused on effective multiple and noise removal and deriving accurate stacking velocities Problem The greatest challenge in areas of thick basalt