Reservoir & Subsurface

NMO meaning in oil and gas

Definition

Normal Moveout

NMO means Normal Moveout. A seismic processing term. Seismic surveys sample the same subsurface location with different angles of incidence. NMO is the correction which allows these multiple samples to be summed, or…

A seismic processing term. Seismic surveys sample the same subsurface location with different angles of incidence. NMO is the correction which allows these multiple samples to be summed, or 'stacked'.

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