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Dolphin starts 3D SHarp off Australia

Jul 23, 2015

Dolphin Geophysical continues its seismic operations in Australia on the Northwest shelf by initiating a large 3D SHarp broadband multi-client (MC) survey covering approximately 15,000sq km.  In cooperation with TGS and supported by major oil companies…

NUTECH integrates reservoir intelligence technology

Jul 23, 2015

NUTECH, a petrophysical analysis and reservoir intelligence company, offers an integrated set of proprietary technologies that takes reservoir intelligence to the next level by providing a comprehensive and evolving picture of a reservoir…

Searcher completes Irish seismic

Jul 21, 2015

Searcher Seismic in cooperation with MAGE completed the acquisition of the Echidna Regional Broadband 2D seismic survey covering the Porcupine and Slyne basins, and the Goban Spur offshore Ireland. Map from Searcher…

LR Senergy unveils IC software solution

Jul 20, 2015

LR Senergy, an energy services company, unveiled its geological software solutions, IC, while exhibiting at the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) Annual Symposium in California. IC is a fully modularized package…

Polarcus starts Gambia 3D survey

Jul 20, 2015

Seismic acquisition firm Polarcus has started a new 3D broadband multi-client project across the Mauritania-Senegal-Guinea-Bissau basin, offshore Northwest Africa. The project, supported by industry funding, will cover 1500sq km offshore The Gambia and is expected to run for 50 days…

Repsol, RSI announce joint technology project

Jul 16, 2015

Repsol and RSI have signed a three-year, US$11.5 million agreement under which they will co-develop a state-of-the-art platform for the integrated interpretation and joint inversion of seismic and CSEM data within a rock physics modeling framework…

Energean completes 3D survey

Jul 16, 2015

Image: seismic vessel/ Energean Mediterranean and North Africa-focused Energean Oil & Gas completed a new 3D seismic survey over the Prinos oil field and its surrounding licenses, in the Gulf of Kavala…

EMGS in Mexico multi-client survey

Jul 16, 2015

Mexico's Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) authorized permits for Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) to acquire about 88,000sq km of 3D electromagnetic (EM) multi-client data over a five-year period off Southern Mexico. SENER’s…

ARKeX gets east coast survey permit

Jul 15, 2015

ARKeX announced it has been awarded the first geological and geophysical oil and gas exploration permit by the Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM).  The ARKeX survey will acquire an airborne broadband gravity and magnetic survey over Outer…

TGS, PGS to survey Flemish Pass

Jul 13, 2015

TGS announces a new multi-client 3D survey offshore Eastern Canada with plans to acquire approximately 4300sq km of seismic data. This survey is conducted in partnership with PGS. The Ramform Valiant, using the PGS GeoStreamer technology…

Fugro Americas completes first job

Jul 09, 2015

On 11 June 2015, Fugro’s premier geophysical survey vessel, the Fugro Americas, successfully completed a data-collection project for a geochemical coring campaign in the Caribbean. The project marks the maiden voyage of the new-build vessel…

Polarcus moves to new Houston location

Jul 08, 2015

Polarcus has relocated its North and South America regional office in Houston, Texas, to new premises in the Cobalt Center, Memorial City, as the company expands its regional footprint. The new Polarcus office is located in a Class A designated building…

Global seismic vessel roundup

Jul 07, 2015

Seismic vessels are the lifeblood of global offshore exploration efforts. Jeannie Stell searches for bright spots in the current global market of seismic vessel activity.  The Sanco Sword. From Dolphin Geophysical…

Spectrum, PGS, Schlumberger in Mexico MOU

Jul 02, 2015

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been executed for a cooperation agreement between Spectrum, PGS and Schlumberger in Mexico. The collaboration will acquire 80,000-100,000km of modern, long-offset 2D data encompassing all the major hydrocarbon provinces offshore Mexico…

EMGS obtains data licensing agreements

Jul 01, 2015

Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) entered into two new data licensing agreements for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS' multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. The agreements are worth a total of US$2 million. The multi-client revenues will be booked in the 2Q 2015…

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