Most of the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico remains unexplored. Dan McConnell explores the geotechnical knowns and unknowns in the basin. Acquiring geotechnical data for platform foundation design in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche Image from Fugro…
Spectrum began a 3500km multi-client 2D seismic survey offshore Namibia. The BGP Pioneer. From BGP. The survey is being conducted in the Orange basin to complete the 6000km survey over the Namibia and South Africa border…
Atlantic margin focussed exploration firm Chariot Oil & Gas has, with partners AziNam (20%), NAMCOR (10%) and Ignitus (5%), started a 2D seismic acquisition survey over about 1700km in the Central Blocks 2312 & 2412A offshore Namibia. SeaBird Exploration will carry out the survey…
TGS is to extend its Declaration Multi-WAZ (wide azimuth) Survey in the Mississippi Canyon and DeSoto Canyon protraction areas of the central US Gulf of Mexico. The extension represents a minimum 2000sq km of additional data to be acquired…
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) will receive uplift revenues of US$2.5 million related to the licensing round for mature areas on the Norwegian continental shelf - Awards in Predefined Areas (APA). EMGS's multi-client data library in Norway now covers 44…
Ikon Science is launching Ji-Fi (joint impedance and facies inversion), a process that delivers a most accurate and detailed 3D model of complex reservoirs comprising different seismic facies, including shale, brine-filled sand, oil-bearing sand and gas-bearing sand…
Norway-based seismic services firm TGS has signed a letter of award (LOA) with Polarcus DMCC to acquire 3000sq km of 3D seismic data offshore Norway with a potential extension of up to a total of 7000sq km. The activity is expected to…
Searcher Seismic and MAGE began the acquisition of the Echidna Regional Broadband 2D seismic survey, offshore Ireland. Map of Echidna Regional Broadband 2D seismic survey. From Searcher Seismic The…
Norway based geoscience firm Dolphin Geophysical has been awarded a contract for 3D data acquisition and processing of 10,000sq km. with Ophir Energy in Myanmar. The work will start in Q1 with a vessel already in the region planned to tow an industry first configuration…
Searcher Seismic has signed a commercial agreement with DownUnder GeoSolutions to market and license the Monodon Ultracube. The Monodon Ultracube consists of approximately 14,700sq km 3D and 2000km 2D reprocessed data in the prospective Northern Carnarvon Basin of the North West Shelf…
Sterling Energy has agreed to acquire a 40.5% stake in the shallow water Block C-3 production sharing contract offshore Mauritania from Tullow Oil 's Mauritanian subsidiary. Tullow currently holds a 90% stake in the license with Société…
Norway-based seismic acquisition firm Spectrum has started a 12,000km multi-client 2D seismic survey offshore Brazil's Pelotas Basin. The new acquisition program will infill both Spectrums' new 7500km survey acquired in 2013 and 12,000km of data reprocessed in 2014…
Searcher Seismic in conjunction with project partner, BGP, are pleased to announce the 2015 GroupSeis campaign over the North West Shelf, Western Australia. The GroupSeis concept has been developed by Searcher to provide clients with a turnkey solution for the environmental approval…
Rod Starr joins Polarcus as its next chief executive officer (CEO) effective 5 February. Starr has more than 30 years industry experience, starting his career with Unocal where he spent 16 years in various planning and financial roles…
KrisEnergy began its 570sq km 3D seismic survey in Block 120, offshore Vietnam using the CGG Amadeus vessel. Map from KrisEnergy. Block 120 overlies Quang Ngai Graben and Tri Ton Horst…
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