Polarcus has secured another extension for its 3D marine seismic project in South America. The original award, announced on 15 December 2015, was awarded by an undisclosed client for a 3D marine seismic project in South America utilizing…
TDI-Brooks International, under contract to TGS, recently completed a coring program for the Gigante survey in the Gulf of Mexico. Map of Gigante, from TDI-Brooks. TDI-Brooks…
Audrey Leon speaks with Karim Lassel, Director General, CGG México, to get the company’s perspective on Mexico’s geology, the energy reform, and much more. CGG’s sister vessels, the Oceanic Sirius and Oceanic Vega…
SeaBird Exploration has signed an agreement to provide a 2D seismic vessel for an upcoming survey in the Caribbean. The project is anticipated to commence in the second half of March and will have a duration of approximately one month. SeaBird will be using the Harrier Explorer for the project…
CGG has completed the acquisition and processing of the first-ever airborne gravity gradiometry (AGG) survey of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Conducted on behalf of the Bahrain Petroleum Co. (Bapco), this was the first commercial survey to be acquired worldwide using FalconPlus…
Polarcus has received a letter of award for a 4D marine seismic acquisition project offshore West Africa. The project is due to start in Q2 2017 and will run for approximately one month.
TGS started the Otos multibeam survey and the first stage of a seep and geochemistry program in the US Gulf of Mexico. The survey is designed to mirror the successful Gigante multibeam and seep study in the Mexican Gulf of Mexico, conducted in 2016…
Spectrum has commenced a 6000km Multi-Client 2D survey offshore Brazil in the Potiguar Basin. The acquisition program is an extension of Spectrum's 2013 Potiguar Phase 1 survey. Spectrum's Equatorial Margin database offshore Brazil, currently totals more than 110…
Teledyne Gavia, manufacturer of the Gavia autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), has released a side scan/bathymetry module that incorporates US-based Klein Marine Systems’ UUV-3500 high-resolution side scan sonar with optional bathymetry sonar…
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) and TGS-NOPEC Geophysical (TGS) have agreed to expand the companies' cooperation agreement in the Barents Sea. TGS will be investing in a 3D CSEM data acquisition project related to the 24th licensing round in Norway…
Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, has been awarded a 4D baseline ocean bottom node project in West Africa, with a duration of six-weeks. The crew is currently in the mobilization phase of the project, which will…
Searcher Seismic and partner CGG have started the PSDM reprocessing of about 1668sq km of 3D seismic data in the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. The project comprises broadband PSDM reprocessing of the Western portion of the existing Foxhound 3D Seismic Survey…
Industry funding will support TGS’ first new multi-client acquisition project in 2017, AM17 Atlantic Margin 3D in the Norwegian Sea. AM17 is a 40,000sq km project in the central-southern Norwegian Sea. The 3D survey will cover largely…
Polarcus received a letter of intent for a broadband 3D marine seismic acquisition project offshore West Africa. The project is due to start in Q1 2017 and will run for approximately one month.
A decision by the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to deny six pending geophysical and geological (G&G) permit applications for airgun seismic surveys in the Mid- and South Atlantic Planning Areas of the Atlantic Ocean has caused uproar in the industry…
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