"Seismic" News

Woodside exits Tanzania PSA

May 27, 2015

Australia’s Woodside Petroleum will exit the Lake Tanganyika South block it farmed into last July, according to partner Beach Energy. Beach Energy made the announcement on 27 May that Woodside decided not to enter the next phase of exploration on the production sharing agreement (PSA)…

GC Rieber receives Polar Empress

May 27, 2015

GC Rieber Shipping has taken delivery of its seismic new-build Polar Empress, from Kleven-owned Myklebust Verft. The vessel is chartered on a five-year contract to Dolphin Geophysical.  Polar Empress is a high-capacity 3D seismic vessel with ice-class 1A…

The key to CCS: monitoring, measurement and verification

Jul 01, 2015

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects need to demonstrate, through monitoring, that the injected CO2 is contained within the geological store during and after injection and no unexpected migration has occurred. In order to achieve this…

Seeing the unseeable

Jul 01, 2015

Improved ways to gather and interpret geophysical data were highlighted at OTC. Bruce Nichols reports. Rocky Roden, consulting geophysicist for Geophysical Insights, showed an OTC session how to…

Gambia grants Erin extension

May 15, 2015

Houston-based, Africa-focused explorer Erin Energy, formerly CAMAC, has been granted a 24-month extension on two of its offshore Gambia licenses. Erin Energy, which operates the blocks with 100% interest, received approval to extend the…

Borders & Southern updates Falklands discovery

May 14, 2015

London-based Borders & Southern (B&S) completed a comprehensive seismic reservoir characterization study to investigate the Early Cretaceous shallow marine play fairway of its Darwin discovery offshore the Falkland Islands. The objective…

CGG broadens Norwegian seismic net

May 13, 2015

French seismic firm CGG has launched a western extension of the Horda BroadSeisTM-BroadSourceTM 3D multi-client program it began acquiring in the Northern North Sea offshore Norway in 2014. The extension, known as Tampen, is in the Northern…

IOG remapping SNS

May 13, 2015

UK-based Independent Oil and Gas has started a 3D seismic remapping project over its southern North Sea gas portfolio. The project is being carried out on a phased basis, with the first results expected by the end of May. The first phase will cover IOG's core southern North Sea area…

TGS lines up Eastern Canada seismic

May 12, 2015

TGS is to acquire up to 30,000km of seismic data through two new multi-client 2D surveys offshore Eastern Canada. Both surveys are in partnership with PGS, using two vessels during the 2015 acquisition season. The M/V Atlantic Explorer…

Schlumberger to offer depth domain inversion services

Jun 24, 2015

Schlumberger has launched depth domain inversion services, which is used by petrotechnical for reliability and consistency in seismic structural and quantitative interpretation in complex environments.  Performing seismic inversion in…

Seabird starts Gigante seismic

Jun 30, 2015

SeaBird Exploration will now commence the Gigante survey for TGS Nopec, after receiving all necessary permits. The vessels Osprey Explorer and Hawk Explorer have commenced acquisition while Northern Explorer is currently mobilizing to Mexico…

Cairn outlines major Senegal exploration plan

May 11, 2015

UK-based explorer Cairn Energy is ramping up its exploration and appraisal work offshore Senegal following the firm’s two major discoveries in the country made last year.  Cairn is planning a “very ambitious” three-year evaluation plan…

Updating structural models under uncertainty

Jun 16, 2015

The last few years have seen significant advances in reservoir modeling technology, aiming at removing some of the critical bottlenecks in underlying work processes.  Ingrid Aarnes. Given…

OTC15: Day one roundup

May 04, 2015

The oil and gas industry must rely on technology, collaboration and several industries, including academia to excel in the advances of emerging offshore technology trends, BP Chief Operating Officer of Reservoir Development and IT&S James…

Technology-led exploration success

May 01, 2015

For Shell, exploration isn’t just about the seismic, it’s about joining up the petabytes’ worth of seismic dots between its global team of experts. Meg Chesshyre reports. Subsurface imaging, but…

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