Seismic prospection for oil in Poland

Abstract

The paper consists of three parts: The first part deals in general with seismic prospection concerning refraction work in Poland, which owing to an almost lack of publications is mainly descriptive. The second and third parts deal with the reflection survey. The instruments used, and the field methods applied, the theory of the distribution of seismic energy, with its practical application and results, are discussed in the second part. The third part gives the description and analyses of the results of the prospection in the Carpathians and in the Foreland, based on the documentary data available. In some areas of the Foreland, the results of the reflection surveys appeared to be unreliable. The writer points out the possible importance of these areas from the point of view of oil accumulations, and shows the way in which the reflection method could be applied to the structural problems in zones where the reflections were unsatisfactory for correlation, and where true dips could not be determined by the dip-shooting method alone.