2007 Arctic On-ice Seismic Experiment: Operations And Results From a 2D/3D Seismic Program to Investigate Mitigation of the Ice Flexural Wave

In the Spring of 2007, Shell, Eni, & Repsol conducted a research project offshore of Alaska’s North Slope on landfast ice in the Beaufort sea. Two principle goals of the program were to investigate mitigation strategies for noise contamination caused by the ice flexural wave and establish that 3D seismic operations could be safely and efficiently conducted on landfast, ungrounded ice. We assembled a large array of modern sources and receivers to investigate attenuation or removal of the flex wave from seismic data through acquisition methods and provide a 2D and 3D dataset for investigation of data processing approaches.