Hybrid Seismic Acquisition Survey News

 

Searcher’s Irish 2D seismic begins

Mar 17, 2015

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…

Spectrum starts Brazil seismic shoot

Feb 06, 2015

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…

GroupSeis campaign planned for NW Australia

Feb 05, 2015

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…

Polarcus in Australasia 3D seismic project

Jan 07, 2015

Polarcus won a contract to conduct a broadband 3D marine seismic acquisition project in Australasia for an undisclosed client. The Polarcus Nadia. From Polarcus.   The two-month project is set to begin this quarter…

Searcher in Irish 2D seismic

Dec 04, 2014

Searcher Seismic, in conjunction with project partner MAGE, is conducting a 2D seismic survey off western Ireland. Map of Echidna Regional Broadband 2D seismic survey. From Searcher Seismic.   The Echidna…

Spectrum starts Uruguay seismic

Nov 25, 2014

Norway-based seismic acquisition firm Spectrum has started a 3600km multi-client 2D seismic survey offshore Uruguay, South America. The new acquisition program will infill Spectrum’s survey acquired in 2013 and cover open, ultra-deep water acreage in the Oriental del Plata and Pelotas basins…

Ophir and WHL begin Seychelles seismic program

Jul 15, 2014

Dolphin Geophysical AS is using the M/V Polar Duchess to acquire a 1500km seismic survey for Ophir Energy and WHL Energy. The ship left the Seychelles port of Victoria on 5 July. The survey will cover the Junon Block, in the Seychelles Exclusive Economic Zone…

ION finalizes OceanGeo acquisition

Jun 17, 2014

Houston-based ION Geophysical Corp. has agreed to acquire 100% ownership of ocean bottom seismic acquisition company OceanGeo BV. In February 2013, ION acquired 30% of OceanGeo, then increased its ownership to 70% in January 2014…

OMV completes Mohua 2D in Taranaki basin

Apr 22, 2014

Octanex N.L. announced that OMV New Zealand Ltd. has completed the planned 2D seismic survey, named Mohua, in the Taranaki basin off New Zealand. OMV has confirmed the survey vessel, Aquila Explorer, commenced acquisition of the Mohua survey on 19 April…

Barents seismic contracts awarded

Mar 11, 2014

WesternGeco and PGS have been awarded contracts for a joint industry seismic acquisition in the southeastern Barents Sea. The surveys cover blocks proposed for the 23rd concession round by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) and will in total cover about 13…

Barents activity remains high

Oct 09, 2013

A busy 2013 seismic acquisition season is continuing in the Barents Sea, with CGG announcing the completion of its second Broadseis campaign and Dolphin Geophysical launching a new survey. The increase in seismic acquisition activity in the area…

CGG announces African seismic contract

Oct 01, 2013

CGG has received a Letter of Award for a large, high-end seismic acquisition program off West Africa. The survey will mobilize the Geo Coral, Geo Barents and Pacific Finder vessels to conduct a 1484sq km BroadSeis, wide-azimuth survey…

CGG begins Australian survey

Jun 18, 2013

CGGVeritas Services SA began a marine 3D seismic survey on June 10 for Karoon Gas Australia's WA-482-P permit area off the Northern Carnarvon Basin. CGG is utilizing the vessel Geo Caspian. The operation is expected to take abour 56 days…

WesternGeco starts offshore Mozambique survey

May 01, 2013

WesternGeco today announced that it has begun acquisition of a major multiclient seismic survey offshore Mozambique using the ObliQ* sliding-notch broadband acquisition and imaging technique. The technique optimizes the recorded bandwidth…

Falklands seismic net widened

Apr 16, 2013

FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands is pleased to provide the following operations update with respect to the ongoing 3D seismic operations. The…

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