Spectrum starts Campos, Santos survey

OE Staff
Friday, July 22, 2016

Norway-based geoscience firm Spectrum started a 15,000km multi-client 2D survey offshore Brazil in the Santos and Campos Basins.

The new acquisition program is an outboard extension of Spectrum's 2012 Santos Campos Phase 1 survey, and will tie other programs in the Santos, Campos and Espirito Santo Basins producing a continuous dataset covering the prolific pre-salt oil fields in these basins.

Data is being acquired with a 12,000m cable to record data necessary to understand the basin architecture as well as image the prospective zones in the pre-salt section. The data will be processed in Spectrum's processing center in Houston with PSTM, PSDM and Broadband products expected to be available in Q2 2017.

Richie Miller, EVP Multi-Client North & South America, says: "Spectrum has started on our next campaign in Brazil in order to provide new long-offset data over the prospective pre-salt basins for an anticipated round in 2017. In light of the Brazilian government's suggestion that it will include blocks outside the pre-salt area in the Santos and Campos Basins, this play continues to provide excitement and opportunities for exploration. This new data will extend coverage over a very lightly explored area of the pre-salt exploration province."

The survey is acquired in partnership with BGP and is supported with industry funding.

Categories: Geoscience South America Geophysics Seismic

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