Mexico’s national oil company Pemex has awarded French seismic firm CGG a major contract to deliver an orthogonal wide-azimuth integrated solution designed to optimize subsalt seismic imaging in the geologically complex deepwater of the Perdido area…
CGG and Eidesvik Offshore have agreed to terminate the contract for the Viking Vision vessel effective immediately. The contract was due to end at the end of July 2017. According to Eidesvik, the payment of the charter rate will continue until July 2017…
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…
CGG launched TopSeis, its latest offshore broadband seismic solution specifically designed to overcome the intrinsic lack of near offsets inherent in 3D towed-streamer seismic, at the 2016 Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) conference today (29 August)…
CGG become one of the few firms to be registered by Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) as an independent third party qualified to audit and certify Mexico’s reserves, either for oil and gas operators or directly for the CNH. CGG…
With a weak start of the year for CGG, the French seismic company will reduce its fleet by another three vessels by the end of Q1, as its revenue dropped 32% from 2014. The Oceanic Vega. Image from CGG…
Mexico’s Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) authorized CGG to commence a multi-client airborne gravity and magnetic survey offshore Mexico, which will include the acquisition of approximately 200,000km over six areas across the Mexican Gulf of Mexico…
CGG has been awarded an extension to a major 3D seismic survey it successfully completed on the Caribbean coast offshore Colombia in late 2015. The new survey follows on from the original over 16,000sq km survey CGG conducted over portions of the Col-1 and Col-2 blocks…
CGG launched a US$378.8 million (€350 million) rights offering to existing shareholders to fund its “transformational plan” to convert CGG from a seismic acquisition company into an integrated geosciences group. The CGG Oceanic Vega…
French geoscience company CGG is proposing a US$378.9 million (€350 million) capital increase to finance its “Transformation Plan,” which the company first implemented in 2013. The Oceanic Vega…
CGG received all necessary permits to start acquiring the industry’s first regional broadband seismic survey of the Barreirinhas basin in the Equatorial Margin of northern Brazil in early November. Oceanic Vega…
CGG, with the support of its Seabed Geosolutions joint venture with Fugro, has completed the acquisition of a 3D seismic survey over the Hail and Shuweihat oil and gas fields in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, one of the world’s most environmentally sensitive areas…
US-exploration firm Anadarko Petroleum has awarded French geoscience outfit CGG a contract to acquire and process a 16,314sq km 3D seismic survey offshore Colombia. The survey will be the largest marine seismic program ever acquired in…
CGG GeoSoftware acquired the rights to the VelPro velocity modeling and depth conversion product from In-Depth Solutions LLC. VelPro offers a faster and more complete velocity model building workflow to achieve more accurate seismic reservoir characterization…
French seismic acquisition firm CGG has posted strong results for Q4 2014 despite the current 'unfavourable' oil price environment. The CGG Oceanic Vega. From CGG. The firm said its anticipates record multi-client sales for Q4 2014…