Geoscience News


TGS extends GOM Declaration survey

Feb 19, 2015

TGS is to extend its Declaration Multi-WAZ (wide azimuth) Survey in the Mississippi Canyon and DeSoto Canyon protraction areas of the central US Gulf of Mexico. The extension represents a minimum 2000sq km of additional data to be acquired…

EMGS gets US$2.5 mln from NCS sale

Feb 16, 2015

Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) will receive uplift revenues of US$2.5 million related to the licensing round for mature areas on the Norwegian continental shelf - Awards in Predefined Areas (APA). EMGS's multi-client data library in Norway now covers 44…

EMGS to appeal court decision

Feb 16, 2015

Norway-based geophysical services company Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) says it is going to appeal a Court decision over its Towed Streamer EM patent. The firm had issued a claims against Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) in the High Court of Justice…

3D seismic shoot to start off Myanmar

Feb 13, 2015

Norway based geoscience firm Dolphin Geophysical has been awarded a contract for 3D data acquisition and processing of 10,000sq km. with Ophir Energy in Myanmar. The work will start in Q1 with a vessel already in the region planned to tow an industry first configuration…

CNOOC, SK enter China PSCs

Feb 10, 2015

China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), signed two production sharing contracts (PSCs) with SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (SK) for Blocks 04/20 and 17/03 in the South China Sea. The two blocks are located in the Pearl River Mouth basin. Block…

Searcher agrees DownUnder license

Feb 10, 2015

Searcher Seismic has signed a commercial agreement with DownUnder GeoSolutions to market and license the Monodon Ultracube. The Monodon Ultracube consists of approximately 14,700sq km 3D and 2000km 2D reprocessed data in the prospective Northern Carnarvon Basin of the North West Shelf…

Ikon makes first Ji-Fi sale

Feb 06, 2015

Ikon Science has inked the first sale of its Joint Impedance and Facies Inversion product (Ji-Fi) to US-based independent operator Murphy Exploration and Production Company (Murphy Oil), two months after the launch of the software in December 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…

SAExploration wins ocean-bottom seismic contracts

Jan 29, 2015

SAExploration has won contracts for ocean-bottom marine seismic data acquisition services collectively valued at about US$45 million. The company expects to execute the projects during Q2 and Q3 2015, using ocean-bottom nodal seismic…

Gardline nets Australian 2D survey

Jan 23, 2015

Spectrum awarded Gardline CGG the Rocket 2D Phase 1 multi-client marine broadband seismic survey under a master service agreement signed in October 2014 between the two companies. Image of the M/V Duke…

ION 2D to assess offshore Somalia

Jan 12, 2015

ION Geophysical and Somalia’s Puntland Petroleum and Minerals Agency (PPMA) entered into an agreement to complete a multi-client 2D regional seismic survey offshore Puntland, Somalia. Image from ION Geophysical…

Bruheim named EMGS CEO

Jan 08, 2015

Bjarte H. Bruheim has been appointed the new CEO of EMGS, effective 7 January, following the board's decision to accept current CEO Roar Bekker's resignation. Bekker served as CEO since May 2009, and prior to that role, served as Chief Operating Officer since 2007…

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…

Barents Sea FTG

Jan 01, 2015

Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry (FTG) is aiding prospect evaluation in a formerly disputed zone of the Barents Sea, adjacent to the Norwegian-Russian border. Dr. Stephen Rippington, Dr. Neil Dyer, and Chris Anderson explain. Fig…

Bridge to reliability

Jan 01, 2015

New age technologies block failures, and boost bottom line. Gregory Hale reports.   Every minute counts these days. The right decisions hinge on responding to issues before they become big…

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