Seismic While Drilling: Fundamentals of Drill-Bit Seismic for Exploration

1. Introduction and overview. 2. Principles of drilling. 3. General theory: drill-bit seismic waves. 4. General theory: drill-string waves and noise fields. 5. Acquisition of SWD data. 6. Preprocessing of SWD data. 7. Processing of signal and noise RVSP fields. 8. Applications.