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Polarcus Awarded Middle East Project

Dec 27, 2018

Marine geophysical firm Polarcus Limited announced it has won a contract from Dubai Petroleum Establishment for a combined towed streamer and ocean bottom node (OBN) 3D seismic acquisition and processing project in the Middle East.The project…

Magseis Inks MoU with Schlumberger

Nov 19, 2018

Norwegian nodal acquisition company Magseis ASA announced Monday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Schlumberger's geophysical services product line WesternGeco to offer joint bundled seismic services including ocean-bottom…

Seabed Geosolutions Wins Red Sea Ocean Contract

Oct 23, 2018

The provider of comprehensive ocean bottom seismic (OBS) solutions to the global oil and gas industry Seabed Geosolutions and its partner have been awarded a 3D ocean bottom node survey in the Red Sea.The S-79 project will require the acquisition…

Seismic From Below

Oct 08, 2018

Seabed Geosolutions’ Ocean Bottom Seismic & Manta OBNThe acquisition of seismic data using nodes placed on the sea floor, Ocean Bottom Seismic (OBS) and its use in deep water with Ocean Bottom Nodes (OBN) have been growing rapidly in recent…

Seabed Geosolutions inks Nigeria, Trinidad 3D, 4D ocean bottom node work

Dec 20, 2017

Seabed Geosolutions has been awarded a 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic acquisition project over the greater Angostura field in shallow waters, offshore Trinidad for BHP, and a 4D OBN project for Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company…

FairfieldNodal starts Libra survey

Oct 17, 2017

FairfieldNodal has begun a project to acquire and process high-resolution 3D marine seismic for the Libra consortium led by Petrobras, Total, Shell, China National Petroleum Corp., and CNOOC. The Libra project, FairfieldNodal’s first such project offshore Brazil…

Fairfield to start Trinidad OBN survey

Oct 17, 2017

FairfieldNodal is to start a large Z700 acquisition project offshore Trinidad in late October 2017. FairfieldNodal’s Z700 data acquisition system uses Z700 ocean bottom nodes, which are placed on the seafloor to carry out surveys. Fairfield says the Z700 system is easily deployed…

CGG, Seabed Geosolutions ink Brazil OBN survey - industry's largest

Jul 19, 2017

Petrobras has awarded CGG a contract to process the seismic data from a 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey covering a full-fold area of 2180sq km in Brazil’s deepwater Santos Basin. This will be the largest node survey ever acquired and processed in the industry…

Petrobras awards Santos Basin survey

Jun 26, 2017

Petrobras has awarded Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, to conduct the largest ever 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Santos Basin in Brazil. Seabed Geosolutions’ new Manta node system will be used to conduct the OBN survey…

Geokinetics to acquire 3D seismic off Brunei

Mar 21, 2017

Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. (BSP) awarded Geokinetics a contract to acquire a high-resolution 3D seismic survey, offshore Brunei Darussalam. The acquisition is scheduled for Q2 2017 and involves the deployment of a hybrid recording solution…

Magseis, BGP ink Red Sea extension

Mar 17, 2017

Magseis and BGP have been awarded an extension to the ongoing contract with BGP Arabia and Saudi Aramco to acquire additional ocean bottom seismic data block in the Red Sea. The project has an expected duration of six-seven months and is expected to start in April 2017…

Seabed gets West Africa 4D project

Jan 20, 2017

Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, has been awarded a 4D baseline ocean bottom node project in West Africa, with a duration of six-weeks. The crew is currently in the mobilization phase of the project, which will…

Making nodes fly

Feb 01, 2016

The job of placing ocean bottom nodes for seismic acquisition could be set for a revolution. Elaine Maslin looks at Autonomous Robotics Limited’s concept. A single node, nose on. Images from Autonomous Robotics Ltd…

North Sea ocean bottom node contract win

Oct 07, 2013

Seabed Geosolutions has secured a two year contract with Total E&P for its ocean bottom node seismic data acquisition technology. The contract utilises a 'call-out' mechanism for each acquisition survey with the option to extend the contract for an additional 24 months…

Shallow-water seismic acquisition to begin off Ecuador

Feb 06, 2013

SMG to use Fairfield Z-700 ocean-bottom nodesFairfield Industries’ Z-700 nodesRussia’s Federal State Unitary Scientific & Production Company for Marine Geological Prospecting(State SEVMORGEO Company or SMG) has contracted UK-based WGP Exploration Ltd…

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