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DECARBONIZATION CARBON CAPTURE & STORAGE

Today procurement processes for seismic are inflexible and inefficient and are a contributing factor to the end cost of seismic. – Tanya Herwanger,

SVP of Strategy and New

Markets, Shearwater

Courtesy Shearwater

Monitoring strategies will vary from site to site and po- ing battery life of 150 days and extending that is certainly tentially also from country to country, depending on the something we are looking at.” regulations. 4D seismic will no doubt play a role, says Her- Herwanger expects business models to evolve to address wanger, but this may well be part of a broader plan that in- subsurface data needs in hub environments with multiple cludes some kind of detection or trigger system that alerts storage sites and operators close together. This could involve the site operator to take a closer look. “Potential hybrid operators working together. “Today procurement processes solutions feature in many of the discussions. These involve for seismic are in?exible and inef?cient and are a contribut- con?guring ocean bottom nodes, ?ber optic cables and ing factor to the end cost of seismic. In traditional oil and streamers. Aspects such as long battery life which extends gas, operators seem unable or unwilling to update their pro- the time between deployment and recovery will open new curement practices to access seismic services in a smarter, possibilities. Shearwater’s Pearl node has industry lead- more ef?cient manner. Will they manage to do so for CCS?”

DRIVEN BY PRESSURE TO REDUCE

COSTS, SHEARWATER EXPECTS

COMPANIES TO DESIGN 4D

MONITORS THAT ARE SPARSER

THAN THE BASELINE.

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