The 2010 BP 3D Tiber WATS dataset
The 2010 BP 3D Tiber WATS dataset
The Tiber WATS dataset distribution consists of five different subsets of a commercial 3D Wide- Azimuth Towed-Streamer seismic dataset acquired in the U.S. deep-water Gulf of Mexico in 2010 (Naranjo et al., 2011), along with an associated anisotropic velocity model to use for migrating the seismic data. The datasets were released as a package under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) in 2020. The seismic data cover Tiber, a deep-water oil field, Paleogene in age, that resides in Northern Keathley Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. The data subset included in the distribution covers a full-fold area of about 11 OCS blocks. Bp released the data with the aim of facilitating the creation of new imaging algorithms and workflows that may create higher-resolution images beneath complex salt than is currently possible. This distribution includes 5 different versions of the Tiber WATS dataset along with necessary supporting documentation (velocity model, geological information, technical overview, file lists, copyright, etc).
Data subsets
- Raw data, as recorded, with minimal pre-processing applied
- Large area subset: total size 5.8 TB
- Small area subset: total size 1.0 TB
- Decimated small area subset: total size 130 GB
- Preprocessed data, regularized and ready for migration
- Large area subset: total size 725 GB
- Small area subset: total size 120 GB
- Supporting files
- Velocity model: total size 36 GB
- Documentation and various ancillary information: total size 19 MB
Disclaimer
BP makes no representations or warranties, either express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness, quality, or fitness for any particular purpose of the released data, and any such representation or warranty is disclaimed.
Obtaining the data
Currently there are no copies maintained online available for free download, but the dataset was widely distributed among universities across North America, Europe, and the world in 2021-2022, and the copyright explicitly allows redistribution. Institutions receiving a copy of the data included: [USA] Colorado School of Mines, UT Austin, University of Houston, University of Texas at Dallas, MIT, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, [Canada] U. Calgary, Memorial, U. Alberta, [Europe] Imperial College, Leeds, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, ETH Zurich, NTNU, [Rest of world] Curtin University, Australia National University, KAUST, and Cicese.
Acknowledgements
These data were provided by the Gulf of Mexico team in bp with the approval of VP Reservoir Development Emeka Emembolu and his successor Peter Evans. These data were acquired by CGGVeritas on behalf of bp and bp’s partners at the time; all parties were consulted prior to release of these data. The bp geophysical team who prepared the distribution included Ted Manning, Joe Dellinger, Robert Chrisman and Imtiaz Ahmed. Management support came from Herlinde Mannaerts-Drew and legal support from John Cyr and Robert Hsiao. For inquiries about use of the dataset beyond the terms of its Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, please contact tiberseismicdata@bp.com.
As a courtesy, consider including the references below in any publication resulting from using this dataset.
References
Manning, T., Dellinger, J, Chrisman, R., and Ahmed, I, 2020, The 2010 BP 3D Tiber WATS dataset, bp, https://wiki.seg.org/wiki/The_2010_BP_3D_Tiber_WATS_dataset (this web page).