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…
Seismic acquisition firm Polarcus has started a new 3D broadband multi-client project across the Mauritania-Senegal-Guinea-Bissau basin, offshore Northwest Africa. The project, supported by industry funding, will cover 1500sq km offshore The Gambia and is expected to run for 50 days…
Repsol and RSI have signed a three-year, US$11.5 million agreement under which they will co-develop a state-of-the-art platform for the integrated interpretation and joint inversion of seismic and CSEM data within a rock physics modeling framework…
Image: seismic vessel/ Energean Mediterranean and North Africa-focused Energean Oil & Gas completed a new 3D seismic survey over the Prinos oil field and its surrounding licenses, in the Gulf of Kavala…
Mexico's Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) authorized permits for Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) to acquire about 88,000sq km of 3D electromagnetic (EM) multi-client data over a five-year period off Southern Mexico. SENER’s…
ARKeX announced it has been awarded the first geological and geophysical oil and gas exploration permit by the Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM). The ARKeX survey will acquire an airborne broadband gravity and magnetic survey over Outer…
TGS announces a new multi-client 3D survey offshore Eastern Canada with plans to acquire approximately 4300sq km of seismic data. This survey is conducted in partnership with PGS. The Ramform Valiant, using the PGS GeoStreamer technology…
On 11 June 2015, Fugro’s premier geophysical survey vessel, the Fugro Americas, successfully completed a data-collection project for a geochemical coring campaign in the Caribbean. The project marks the maiden voyage of the new-build vessel…
Polarcus has relocated its North and South America regional office in Houston, Texas, to new premises in the Cobalt Center, Memorial City, as the company expands its regional footprint. The new Polarcus office is located in a Class A designated building…
Seismic vessels are the lifeblood of global offshore exploration efforts. Jeannie Stell searches for bright spots in the current global market of seismic vessel activity. The Sanco Sword. From Dolphin Geophysical…
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been executed for a cooperation agreement between Spectrum, PGS and Schlumberger in Mexico. The collaboration will acquire 80,000-100,000km of modern, long-offset 2D data encompassing all the major hydrocarbon provinces offshore Mexico…
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) entered into two new data licensing agreements for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS' multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. The agreements are worth a total of US$2 million. The multi-client revenues will be booked in the 2Q 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…
Could the North Sea become a CO2 storage site? Elaine Maslin takes a look at two proposed projects and some of the challenges involved. The CCS goal—how the Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage sees carbon capture and storage on and offshore…