Schlumberger has expanded its Gulf of Mexico multiclient wide-azimuth seismic data portfolio by launching a new survey in the Campeche Basin. The acquisition of the industry’s first multiclient wide-azimuth survey offshore Mexico will cover 80…
In 2H 2015, Fugro’s revenue increased by 4.3%, however, the Netherlands-based company will cut an additional 200 jobs from its workforce by the end of the year. Image from Fugro. Total revenue for 2H 2015 came in at about US$1…
ION Geophysical Corp. announced the availability of fast-track pre-stack time migrated (PSTM) data from the first phase of its MexicoSPAN program. Currently being acquired, phase one encompasses more than 22,000km of deep-imaged two-dimensional (2D) seismic data…
Fugro has been awarded a contract by BG International Ltd. Sucursal Honduras to conduct an integrated multibeam echosounder (MBES) survey and seabed coring campaign over its offshore acreage (block) in the Honduran Caribbean. As part of BG’s exploration license commitments…
Big data is not just for the seismic segment. Elaine Maslin takes a look at other areas, such as condition monitoring, where the industry could make significant gains. A view of the server room at BP’s Center for High-Performance Computing…
Shell’s second waterflood monitor survey offshore Brazil shows technical success. Jeannie Stell reports. SBM Offshore’s Espirito Santo FPSO can produce up to 100,000 bo/d and inject up to 75,000 b/d of water…
Dolphin Geophysical is acquiring 4192sq km of new Multi-Client 3D SHarp Broadband seismic in the northernmost region of the Norwegian North Sea. The survey targets both open and newly awarded APA acreage. Current acquisition progress stands at 40%…
Japan’s Agency of Natural Resources and Energy has chosen Tokyo-based operator Inpex to drill an exploratory well in the country’s offshore waters in the Sea of Japan. Exploratory drilling will take place from May to August 2016, 80-86mi…
Houston-based independent Anadarko Petroleum has made an important gas discovery at the Kronos well, offshore northwest Colombia, in the southern Caribbean. The Bolette Dolphin (pictured, right) drilled the Kronos-1 well, which sits in a frontier deepwater basin in the Fuerte Sur block…
Dolphin Geophysical has commenced the East Campeche 2D long offset multi-client survey in Mexico, utilizing the M/V Artemis Arctic. The licensed approved 19,597 line-km survey is well positioned towards the recent Mexican announced five-year…
Representatives of Italian explorer Eni and the Egyptian government gathered in Rome to sign updated Head of Agreement terms, following a new offshore discovery made in the Nile Delta earlier this week. The update says the two will jointly…
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, 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 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, 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…