Most of the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico remains unexplored. Dan McConnell explores the geotechnical knowns and unknowns in the basin. Acquiring geotechnical data for platform foundation design in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche…
OE’s Audrey Leon spoke with Dr. Bruno de Ribet, a geophysicist and technology global director at Paradigm, about the opening of Mexico’s oil and gas industry and what effects it will have on both the country’s seismic scene. Please explain…
Apache Energy’s Phoenix area off Western Australia is estimated to contain 48-232 MMbbl of contingent and prospective recoverable oil, according to an independent technical advisor. Map from Carnarvon…
Ikon Science announced the agreement for the commercial licensing of CoViz Lite, developed by California based Dynamic Graphics, Inc., as part of its RokDoc software packages to create a new RokDoc state-of-the-art visualization system. 4D…
Polarcus has secured further industry prefunding enabling the expansion of the Capreolus 3D multi-client project offshore Australia. The additional pre-funding will see the survey expand northwards with an additional 7130sq km to be covered…
Exploration and production executives are facing a bleak year with tough budgets – but the mood wasn’t all doom and gloom at IP Week. Solutions are being suggested – as Meg Chesshyre reports. Yves-Louis Darricarrère…
Mexico is ramping up its offshore seismic data acquisition with recent awards to TGS-NOPEC and Norway-based Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS). The Atlantic Explorer. From PGS. Mexico's…
Dolphin Geophysical mobilized the one of largest floating objects by deploying a seismic spread of 12 streamers, 7050m in length with 150m streamer separation, off the coast of Myanmar for Ophir Energy. The Sanco Sword…
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will host a series of open houses to share information on the geological and geophysical (G&G) permitting process on the Atlantic Coast. The purpose of the meetings is to provide an overview of…
Schlumberger has completed the acquisition of about 2750sq km of two new full-azimuth multiclient seismic surveys over the Garden Banks and Green Canyon areas in the Gulf of Mexico. Both shoots are the initial phase of the Revolution X and Revolution XI surveys and will provide full-azimuth…
No hydrocarbons were intersected at Karoon Gas Australia’s Kangaroo West-1 offshore Brazil. Map from Karoon. The exploration well, located in exploration block S-M-1165, reached its planned total depth of 3170m…
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…
Foster Findlay Associates (ffA) has released a plug-in linking GeoTeric 2015 and Landmark’s DecisionSpace Geosciences as part of Landmark’s iEnergy Partner Program. This new plug-in enables GeoTeric and DecisionSpace Geosciences users to move seismic volumes…
Spectrum entered into a cooperation agreement with Schlumberger to jointly acquire and process Spectrum's offshore Mexico Campeche-Yucatan 2D regional multi-client program. The cooperation agreement includes more than 44,000km of regional…