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Seabed Geosolutions to Perform Santos Basin Survey

Oct 21, 2019

Seabed Geosolutions has secured a letter of award to provide a 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in 2,000 m of water in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil.The 410-square-kilometer survey, which has a contract value of more than $50 million, will…

Polarcus Announces XArray Project in Australia

Oct 17, 2019

Polarcus said it has secured high industry prefunding for a multi-client project in Australia with an approximate duration of one month.The project will commence in the first quarter of 2020 immediately following completion of another XArray project in the region…

Greater Castberg Survey Wraps Up

Oct 16, 2019

Marine geoscience companies CGG and TGS announced they have completed a 5,000 square kilometers multi-client 3D survey in the highly prospective Greater Castberg area in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.The survey commenced in the second quarter…

Fugro Completes GoM Surveys for Shell

Oct 10, 2019

Fugro said it has completed several deepwater geophysical surveys in the Gulf of Mexico for Shell.The project required data collection over multiple deepwater lease blocks in the greater Perdido and Mars development areas to support clearance of potential environmental…

Fugro Appoints Erik-Jan Bijvank as Group Director

Oct 08, 2019

Dutch multinational geo-data specialist Fugro has appointed Erik-Jan Bijvank as Group Director for Europe and Africa.With this latest appointment, Fugro said it completes its new executive leadership team, which was established as of 1 May, consisting of the Board of Management…

TGS Posts Record Q3 Revenue

Oct 08, 2019

Norway's TGS, a supplier of seismic data to the global oil industry, reported record third-quarter revenues on Tuesday, beating both its own and analysts' forecasts, the company said.So-called net segment revenues hit $277 million for the July-September period…

Geoquip Saentis Completes 1st Job in North Sea

Oct 07, 2019

Switzerland-based geotechnical data acquisition company Geoquip Marine said that its DP2 multi-purpose offshore support vessel, the Geoquip Saentis, has completed its first geotechnical campaign in the North Sea.Operations involved drilling…

CGG Delivers 4D Seismic for BP

Oct 02, 2019

French-based geophysical services company CGG said it has delivered broadband 4D seismic results ahead of schedule from BP Angola’s latest monitor survey offshore Angola.The enhanced imaging volumes from the Greater Plutonio development in the…

Benthic Wins Geotechnical Work from TechnipFMC

Oct 01, 2019

Geosciences company Benthic announced it has secured an offshore geotechnical and geophysical contract from TechnipFMC for the Golfinho development, a deepwater discovery off the coast of Mozambique that will be developed as a subsea system…

Australia's Explorers Step Up Oil Hunt

Oct 01, 2019

Australia's oil exploration has picked up over the past year following the country's biggest find in more than two decades, and could drive a resurgence in production that has fallen to a near 50-year low.A successful hunt for liquids could eventually beef up fuel security in Australia…

Polarcus Gets Prefunding for Australia Survey

Oct 01, 2019

Polarcus said it has secured high industry prefunding for a multi-client XArray project in Australia.The project will commence in the fourth quarter of 2019 with an approximate duration of two months.

Ocean Infinity Completes Mohns Ridge Survey

Sep 24, 2019

US-based subsea technology and data company Ocean Infinity said it has compleetd an expedition on the Mohns Ridge in the north-western Norwegian Sea, on behalf of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD).NPD had been assigned the task of mapping…

TGS, Quantico Join for AI Seismic Inversion

Sep 17, 2019

TGS and Quantico Energy Solutions announced a technology collaboration to leverage their respective offerings in seismic data, AI-based well logs, and artificial intelligence (AI)-based seismic inversion.TGS is a provider of multi-client geoscience…

PGS Selects Google Cloud

Sep 17, 2019

Marine seismic surveyor PGS announced it has selected Google as its preferred cloud provider.By harnessing Google’s cloud-based technologies and incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities into workflows, PGS will increase flexibility…

Campeche Survey Underway

Sep 17, 2019

A new 5,080-square-kilometer wide-azimuth (WAZ) multiclient survey has commenced in the Salina del Istmo Basin in the Gulf of Mexico Bay of Campeche, providing the first 3D coverage over this shallow-water target area that includes the recent Zama-1 discovery…

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