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1 C-13Zero-phasing seismic data without wells: revisited MO SAFAR 1and NORBERT VAN DE COEVERING 2 114Timline Green, Bracknell RG122QP, UK 2CGG, Vantage West, Great West Road, Brentford TW89GG, UK Summary A new method is developed for estimating the seismic wavelet from seismic data acquired in offshore areas without wells. Our method is essentially an improvement of the one proposed by Foster et al (Geophysics,1997, which involved combining two independent methods in order to increase the reliability of the estimated wavelet. One important requirement of the proposed method is that the near field signatures generated by the air guns forming the source array are recorded during the survey so that the depths and the geometry of the air guns, the reflection coefficient of the sea surface and the far field signature of the seismic source can be determined (Safar,1998, 1999. Another requirement is a Q value for modeling the earth’s absorption, which is determined from the seismic data. The main feature of the proposed method is that we do not need the assumption that the seismic wavelet is minimum phase. The method is tested using 3D migrated data acquired around a logged well in the North Sea. The accuracy of the proposed method is evaluated by comparing the estimated seismic wavelet with those derived from the statistical and well to seismic matching methods. Introduction Recently Foster et al (1997proposed a method for estimating the seismic wavelet for the purpose of zero-phasing seismic data without wells. It consists of a combination of two independent methods for deriving the seismic wavelet, namely the physical modeling and the statistical extractions. The main objective is to increase the reliability of the estimated seismic wavelet. This is because one method should compensate for the shortcomings of the other method. The new methodology proposed in this paper differs from that discussed by Foster et al (1997:the physical modeling is combined with only one part