NaPoWriMo Day 26

 Hello, 

Today's prompt is to write a parody.  It suggested writing a parody based on another poem or perhaps a song.  This reminded me of an artist that I really like called A Capella Science. He takes well known songs and creates a science parody where he sings about complex physics or scientific topics.  It's really fun.  

Inspired by A Capella Science I took the song Happier, by Marshmello and Bastille and changed the words to be about my work, seismic data processing.  Enjoy!

Lately I've been, I've been thinking
About seismic squiggly lines, about seismic squiggly lines.

Seismic data is
A type of acoustic data
That we get when we put dynamite and geophones into the ground. 
Explode the dynamite
Its energy travels outwards
And reflects off the places where two rock layers meet. 

Then to the geophones
The energy will go
To be recorded for our use. 
The line looks like a squiggle
Positive and negative
Corresponding to the energy. 

Lately I've been, I've been thinking
About seismic squiggly lines, about seismic squiggly lines.

Seismic data trace
For each geophone per shot
Put the traces together that come from each shot and we'll have now a shot record.
Gather all the shots
Hundreds or thousands of them
And we'll have all the data for our seismic survey. 

And now it's time to process
Our shot record data
Into a form that we can use. 
Remove the noise and stack it
So that we get a view
What's underneath the surface here. 

Lately I've been, I've been thinking
About seismic squiggly lines, about seismic squiggly lines.

Gain recovery
Noise removal
Deconvolution
Normal move-out
And statics
Migrate it all

Lately I've been, I've been thinking
About seismic squiggly lines, about seismic squiggly lines.

Lately I've been, I've been thinking
To see what is under the ground, seismic squiggly lines show. 

Interpreting the data
Avoiding all the faults
To drill into the oil there. 
Extract the hydrocarbons
We use to fuel our lives
This is how the process goes. 

Lately I've been, I've been thinking
About seismic squiggly lines, about seismic squiggly lines.

Hydrocarbons
Hydrocarbons
Oil & gas. 

Thanks for reading!