Offshore Geoscience News


Norway Awards Two CO2 Storage Permits in North Sea

Dec 19, 2024

Norwegian Ministry of Energy has offered two CO2 storage permits to Harbour Energy, Equinor, and Aker BP, both located in the North Sea.One of the permits is being offered to a group consisting of Harbour Energy (operator) and Equinor Low Carbon Solution…

Geoquip Marine Adds Retrofitted Vessel to Its Geotechnical Fleet

Dec 17, 2024

Geoquip Marine, a Njord Partners portfolio company, has added a seventh vessel to their fleet, which is being converted from a platform supply vessel (PSV) to the geotechnical services platform for the offshore energy sector.The Geoquip Silvretta vessel…

Fugro Gets Busy at Equinor’s Offshore CO2 Highway

Dec 17, 2024

Fugro has started conducting comprehensive ground investigation for a CO2 highway, off the coast of Belgium, part of a 1,000-kilometer-long planned pipeline by Equinor to transport CO2 between mainland Europe and Norway.Under the contract, Fugro…

Viridien, TGS Deliver High-Res Data for Sleipner Area in North Sea

Dec 12, 2024

Viridien, in collaboration with joint venture partner TGS, has delivered the final processed data from the multi-client Sleipner Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) project.The Sleipner OBN survey, the second of two dense multi-client OBN surveys acquired in the North Sea in 2023…

TGS to Embark on 3D Streamer Survey in Southern Atlantic

Dec 06, 2024

Norwegian seismic specialist TGS has secured a large 3D streamer contract in the Southern Atlantic.Acquisition is scheduled to begin by the end of 2024.The contract has a duration of approximately 140 days, TGS said, without revealing any additional details…

Shearwater Geoservices Lands Third Offshore Survey Job in India

Dec 03, 2024

Shearwater Geoservices has been awarded a large 2D towed streamer seismic survey by Oil India, covering 14,500 line kilometers on the East Coast of India in the Bay of Bengal.The project, scheduled to being early 2025, forms part of India’s…

EMGS to Conduct CSEM Survey Offshore India

Nov 22, 2024

Norwegian offshore survey services firm Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has secured a contract for controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) offshore India.The survey is expected to have a contract value of approximately $10 million, including mobilization fee…

TDI-Brooks Completes Suriname Piston Coring Project

Nov 19, 2024

TDI-Brooks has completed a multi-client multibeam and seabed piston coring program off Suriname.The company was contracted by GeoPartners, on behalf of Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname, to perform seep data acquisition, processing, interpretation…

Turkish Ship to Begin Oil Search off Somalia

Oct 03, 2024

A Turkish seismic research vessel plans to arrive off the coast of Somalia at the end of October and begin searching for oil and natural gas, after the countries agreed on energy cooperation, Turkey's energy ministry said on Thursday.The March…

TGS Gets 4D Survey Job in Southern Atlantic

Oct 03, 2024

Energy data and intelligence firm TGS has secured a baseline 4D streamer contract in the Southern Atlantic region with an independent energy company.The contract spans approximately 90 days, according to TGS.TGS will leveraging the capabilities of the Ramform acquisition platform…

Ocean Geophysics Sets Up New UXO Clearance Service for Dutch Offshore Wind

Sep 17, 2024

Renewable energy industry supplier Ocean Geophysics has established a dedicated team and is introducing CS-OOO certification support in the Netherlands in response to the growing demand for qualified professionals in the field of unexploded ordnance (UXO) risk mitigation for offshore operations…

Turkey Warm to Libya's Offshore Exploration Offer

Sep 11, 2024

Turkey is interested in an offer from Tripoli to carry out energy exploration offshore Libya, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday.'Libya has offered to us to work with our seismic vessels offshore. Frankly, we are warm to this…

TGS Starts 2D Seismic Survey Offshore Sumatra

Sep 06, 2024

Norwegian seismic company TGS has started the acquisition of a 2D seismic survey in the Sumatra basin, Indonesia.The survey, conducted using COSL’s HYSY 718 vessel, is expected to comprise between 5,500- and 6,500-line kilometers, covering two regions…

Shearwater Gets 4D seismic Job at Ghana’s Jubilee Field

Sep 03, 2024

Marine seismic acquisition firm Shearwater Geoservices has secured a 4D seismic monitoring contract for the Jubilee field in Ghana, operated by Tullow Ghana.The two-month survey will be conducted early 2025.This will be the first contract conducted by Shearwater Ghana…

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