CGG has signed a multi-client data agreement with Mozambique’s Instituto Nacional de Petroleo (INP) covering up to 40,000sq km of 3D data over the Beira High in the Zambezi Delta, over blocks Z5-C and Z5-D and surrounding open acreage. Deliverables will include fast-track PreSTM…
The oil and gas industry has the data and the drive to pursue digital technology, but lacks a coherent strategy to fully digitalize its operations. Karen Boman reports from Halliburton's Landmark Innovation Forum and Expo (LIFE) in Houston…
Schlumberger’s WesternGeco has completed a hybrid seismic acquisition survey using their newly deployed multipurpose vessel (MPV)—a first in the industry, the company says. WG Vespucci. Image from Ultstein…
ION Geophysical has begun a new 2D multiclient program offshore Panama, the first seismic survey to be acquired in 30 years, the company announced on 9 August. The PanamaSPAN survey will provide the framework to evaluate the hydrocarbon…
CGG has started its Gippsland ReGeneration 3D reprocessing project in Australia’s premier Gippsland Basin, offshore southeast Australia. The project will offer the industry the highest-resolution 3D seismic data available in what CGG calls an 'extremely prospective' area…
The American Petroleum Institute (API) says it is disappointed in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on seismic surveying in the Gulf of Mexico. The programmatic EIS…
SeaBird Exploration signed an option agreement with TGS Nopec to provide up to 600 vessel days of seismic services. The deal offers TGS access to one or more SeaBird vessels to perform seismic services on a global basis. Call-off…
CGG has completed an extension of its Santos VII broadband 3D multi-client survey offshore Brazil. The 1867sq km extension to the original footprint gives CGG a total of almost 16,000sq km of newly acquired and imaged pre-salt coverage. The…
Tullow Oil and Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas started a 2550sq km seismic survey earlier this month on the Orinduik Block offshore the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. The survey is being conducted by Schlumberger Guyana Inc. (Western Geco) using R/V GECO Eagle and two supporting vessels…
ASV Global has started phase 2 of a multi-phased project with Shell aiming to develop an unmanned seismic energy source vessel as part of their Rapid Autonomous Marine 4D (RAM4D) source concept. Upcoming trials for the project will include…
Oilfield giant schlumberger has revealed a slew of new contacts including a deal to supply equipment to the Leviathan field, offshore Israel, and to perform ocean bottom survey work on BP's Clair Ridge field, west of Shetland, UK. The…
Petrobras has awarded CGG a contract to process the seismic data from a 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey covering a full-fold area of 2180sq km in Brazil’s deepwater Santos Basin. This will be the largest node survey ever acquired and processed in the industry…
Geoscience firm Spectrum has started the acquisition of a new seismic survey in the Barents Sea as part of the ongoing Norwegian 24th licensing round. The new Norsel High 3D acquisition comprises a minimum of 1600sq km, covering four blocks that are included in the round…
Emerson Automation Solutions has launched the latest version of its reservoir characterization and modeling software, Roxar RMS 10.1. RMS 10.1. Image from Emerson. Through even…
Geoscience firm TGS has started acquisition on the Crean 3D multiclient program in the Porcupine Basin offshore Ireland. The survey, being carried out using Shearwater GeoServices 3D vessel Polar Marquis, will take about 140 days. The vessel will tow 12 x 8100m long solid streamers…