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Fan shooting

Term · Oil and gas · MLC-T-OAG-001366

An early refraction technique in which receivers are laid out in a fan of azimuths around a shot, or a fan of shots is fired to one receiver line, to find high-velocity bodies such as salt domes. Rays passing through the body arrive earlier than those that miss it, so a travel-time advance on certain azimuths marks its position. It was used in the 1920s and 1930s along the United States Gulf Coast.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-OAG-001366
FieldOil and gas
SubjectGeophysics
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-OAG-001366",
  "term": "Fan shooting",
  "field": "Oil and gas",
  "definition": "An early refraction technique in which receivers are laid out in a fan of azimuths around a shot, or a fan of shots is fired to one receiver line, to find high-velocity bodies such as salt domes. Rays passing through the body arrive earlier than those that miss it, so a travel-time advance on certain azimuths marks its position. It was used in the 1920s and 1930s along the United States Gulf Coast.",
  "subject": "Geophysics",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oil-and-gas/fan-shooting/"
}

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