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The Tulip 3D survey is the first Coil Shooting single-vessel full-azimuth acquisition project in Indonesia. This paper discusses some of the data processing challenges caused by both the geology and the acquisition method. The data processing of the Tulip 3D Coil Shooting survey started onboard during the acquisition. It was clear from the beginning that the circular geometry and the local geology would introduce some challenges in data treatment and processing. There were a number of challenges in this survey, to name a few: turn noise due to acquiring data while the vessel and cables were tracking continuously in circles, very severe multiple energy resulting from the local geology, irregular spatial sampling due to circular geometry, very high and irregular fold of coverage, and extremely poor signal-to-noise ratio and poor imaging related to the complex geology in the area. The data processing objectives were to address these challenges. This paper presents the positive experience and results from the data processing phase of the project.