ISS meaning in oil and gas

Independent Simultaneous Sources

ISS® is an innovative a major oil and gas company technique for acquiring 3D seismic data, invented for North Africa surveys and now applied for Ocean Bottom surveys also. It dramatically reduces the cost of acquisition while allowing increases in sampling and fold to improve data quality. The trade off is blended data recording, but with conventional data processing a major oil and gas company has shown this still does not degrade amplitude fidelity, and processing technologies to deblend this data continue to improve. A registered trademark is is awarded in many countries to a major oil and gas company for this revolutionary technology.