Offshore Geoscience News - page 82


Karoon enters Great Australian Bight

Oct 07, 2016

Karoon Gas Australia has been awarded a three-year commitment to explore the Great Australian Bight (GAB), in which the company will focus on acquiring seismic surveys, offshore South Australia.   Map of GAB…

Seabed gets ADNOC extension

Oct 06, 2016

Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, secured a new extension to its ongoing shallow water operations in the UAE for Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.’s (ADNOC) Phase-II of the Ghasha Field project. This new survey is due to…

OIL India, UH ink technology MoU

Oct 06, 2016

Oil India Ltd. (OIL) and the University of Houston (UH) have entered into an agreement to collaborate on technologies required to maximize recovery from aging oilfields in India.  The duo will cooperate in the fields of improved oil recovery and enhanced oil recovery…

Nearshore Mexico seismic completed

Oct 05, 2016

Searcher Seismic has completed acquisition of the Buscador Near-Shore 2D Seismic Survey, offshore Mexico. The Buscador Near-Shore 2D Seismic Survey was acquired by Searcher’s project partner, BGP and comprises 11,200km of long-offset…

CGG starts latest 3D Santos Basin shoot

Oct 05, 2016

CGG has started a large broadband 3D multi-client survey in the pre-salt area of the deep water Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Santos VII (Saturno) is the third phase in CGG’s most ambitious pre-salt project to date, collectively known as the Santos Basin Trilogy…

TGS completes Gigante seismic

Oct 04, 2016

TGS has completed the acquisition of its 186,000km Gigante seismic survey offshore Mexico.  The acquisition of this survey began in June 2015 with five seismic vessels contracted to acquire a dense, modern, long offset regional 2D seismic grid…

Spectrum acquires Dolphin Brazil and Lebanon data

Oct 03, 2016

Norwegian geoscience firm Spectrum has entered into an agreement with the administrator of the Dolphin estate to acquire the multi client 2D survey in Brazil Santos Campos and the 3D survey in Lebanon. The Norwegian entities of Dolphin…

SLB releases GeoTesting

Sep 27, 2016

Schlumberger released the GeoTesting geology-based well test design and interpretation services at the 2016 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. GeoTesting services, built in the Petrel exploration and production software platform…

Hyperdynamics ups Guinea assessment

Sep 27, 2016

Hyperdynamics Corp. received an updated exploration risk assessment of its top two drilling prospects offshore Guinea, that materially increases the probability of exploration success for both. The improved risk assessment follows the…

Woodside expects Bréanann results in January

Sep 26, 2016

Woodside Energy and its partner Petrel Resources successfully completed the Bréanann 3D seismic acquisition program that covered over some 2392sq km of the northern Porcupine Basin, 150km west off the Kerry coast, south-western Ireland.  The…

Schlumberger, Petronas team up for Campeche survey

Sep 22, 2016

Petronas entered into a deal to license a part of the WesternGeco Campeche wide-azimuth (WAZ) deepwater multiclient seismic survey in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The deal was reached through Schlumberger and Petronas subsidiary, Petronas (E&P) Overseas Ventures…

CGG offers up Carnarvon basin 3D data

Sep 22, 2016

CGG says final pre-stack depth-migrated data for Phase 1 of its Davros 3D BroadSeis and BroadSource multiclient survey in the Northern Carnarvon Basin on the North West Shelf of Western Australia is available. Phase 2 is due to complete by Q4…

Spectrum starts Barents seismic

Sep 22, 2016

Norwegian geoscience firm Spectrum has started a 1800sq km multi client 3D seismic survey offshore Norway in the Western Barents Sea.  The new survey, designed based on interest from industry will tie and complement Spectrum's existing 3D surveys in the area…

Spectrum to survey Mozambique for oil

Sep 21, 2016

Geoscience firm Spectrum is to carry out a long-offset Broadband 2D multi-client seismic survey covering the southern Rovuma and north-eastern Zambezi Basins, offshore Mozambique. The survey will be a variable grid with lines spaced from 10km to 20km…

CGG delivers Mexican seismic data

Sep 20, 2016

CGG's Fast Trax Reverse Time Migration (RTM) data from its Encontrado multiclient mega-merge project covering the Perdido fold belt has been delivered ahead of Mexico's December Licensing Round. The Encontrado reprocessing project is a merge of over 38…

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