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Recent examples from world basins are highlighted. In this review study, we give an overview about multicomponent seismology, its history, data acquisition, processing and interpretation as well as the state-of the-art of its applications.
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The technology demonstrated its value in many fields and gained popularity in basins worldwide. That is, recording different components of the seismic wave field allowed geophysicists to map complex reservoirs and extract information that could not be extracted previously. Multicomponent seismology came as a solution to most limitations encountered in P-wave imaging. In such environments, conventional seismic with the compressional (P) wave alone proved to be insufficient. Continuous depletion of many old fields and the increasing world consumption of crude oil pushed to consistently search for techniques that help recover more reserves from old fields and find alternative fields in more complex and deeper formations either on land and in offshore. The technology has evolved from two to three-dimensional method, and later added a fourth dimension for reservoir monitoring. Exploration seismology has substantially contributed to finding and developing giant fields worldwide. Searching for hydrocarbon reserves in deep subsurface is the main concern of wide community of geophysicists and geoscientists in petroleum industry.