Keep an Eye on Your Basement! - The 3D Version

Summary Twenty some years ago Bernard Coulott of Imperial Oil exhorted us to “Keep an eye on your basement!” during a CSEG luncheon talk. In 2004, we presented several wide ranging geological examples of the influence of basement structure on the overlying stratigraphy (Peirce and Griffith, 2004) and emphasized how far up in the section such effects could influence trap and reservoir development. This paper focuses on how to map magnetic basement quickly and effectively in 3D on a seismic work station using High Resolution AeroMagnetic (HRAM) and new techniques that we have recently developed.