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. Final data products will be available in 1Q 2016.
In December 2014, Houston-based Erin Energy, previously called CAMAC Energy, awarded a contract to Polarcus for the acquisition of a 3D seismic survey covering about 1504sq km in the A2 and A5 blocks, offshore Gambia, in the offshore Casamance sub-basin, which forms the southern part of the greater Senegal Basin.
According to Erin, Cairn Energy’s recent Fan-1 and SNE-1 discoveries were on trend with its blocks.
Polarcus said prefunding had been secured in response to the heightened industry interest in the Cretaceous slope fan and shelf-edge reef plays along the entire MSGB margin subsequent to the recently announced dual well successes in Senegal.