Fugro Scout, the new 83m geotechnical drilling vessel, has completed its maiden project in the Middle East. Since its maiden project in the Persian Gulf it has been successfully deployed in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea, completing several…
Resource assessments of the 2015 license round area for offshore Newfoundland and Labrador shows the potential to hold 12 billion bbl and 113 Tcf of gas in place, according to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nalcor Energy and Beicip-Franlab…
Fugro has integrated and rebranded its geotechnical companies under the name Fugro GeoServices Ltd. The renaming completes the integration of Fugro Seacore, Fugro Engineering Services, EM Drilling, Fugro Loadtest, Fugro Instrumentation & Monitoring and Fugro Aperio…
A new offshore play is emerging in the oil and gas exploration business – deepwater contourites. Elaine Maslin spoke to Professor Dorrik Stow about what and where they are and how they were found and how scientific deepwater drilling is helping to unlock their secrets…
Shreeram Lom, Aaron Rampersad, and Juan Martínez, of Repsol, discuss the Perla field development, which came online offshore Venezuela in July. Fig. 1: Topside. Images from Repsol. The Perla field…
Image: silver-eye/Searcher Seismic Searcher Seismic announced that the acquisition of the Silver-Eye 3D seismic survey in the Hammerfest Basin, Norwegian Barents Sea is now complete. The…
The Bulgarian Ministry of Energy awarded Shell E&P a permit for deepwater exploration of oil and natural gas in Blocks 1-14 Silistar in the Black Sea, according to Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova. Image from Shell…
Halliburton's Wireline & Perforating business has introduced the Xamine Sonic Service, an evolution in acoustic formation evaluation that provides operators with high-fidelity data and advanced processing capabilities to more accurately characterize a wide range of reservoirs…
The National Oil Corp. of Kenya (NOCK) has invited expressions of interest (EOI) from eligible companies to acquire a multi-client 3D broadband seismic survey including processing over the shallow waters of the offshore Lamu basin, Kenya…
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) signed a multi-client acquisition agreement with the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) in India. The agreement grants EMGS a two-year permit to acquire 3D EM multi-client data within a 325,000sq km area off West coast India…
All four phases of CGG’s BandaSeis 2D BroadSeis multi-client program targeting the Banda Arc around East Indonesia and Timor Leste have now been fully processed and are ready for delivery. BandaSeis data coverage…
French seismic firm CGG has completed full processing of all four phases of its BandaSeis 2D BroadSeis multi-client program targeting the Banda Arc around East Indonesia and Timor Leste. The regional program, totaling more than 14,000km of broadband seismic data…
Karoon Gas Australia is revising its previous estimates of the Kangaroo field in the Santos basin offshore Brazil that decreases its 2C resources by nearly 39%. The Australian company is also estimating its Echidna’s light oil gross contingent 2C resource volume to be of 75 MMbbl…
Polarcus announced that the company has received a letter of intent from an undisclosed client to execute a 3D marine seismic project in West Africa utilizing Polarcus' RightBAND technique for broadband data acquisition. The project…
Cairn Energy has started a new 3D seismic survey over the Sangomar Deep, Sangomar and Rufisque permits, offshore Senegal. The Polarcus Adira 3D seismic vessel is acquiring data in the north and east parts of the permits along trend from…