Norway-based geoscience firm Spectrum started a 15,000km multi-client 2D survey offshore Brazil in the Santos and Campos Basins. The new acquisition program is an outboard extension of Spectrum's 2012 Santos Campos Phase 1 survey, and will tie other programs in the Santos…
A consortium led by Merlin Energy Resources and comprising; Riley Geoscience; Network Stratigraphic Consulting; IGI; and G. Dunford Exploration has secured a €1.9 million contract from the Irish Petroleum Infrastructure Programme (PIP) to complete an integrated chronostratigraphic…
KrisEnergy has started a seismic campaign over the G10/48 contract area in the Gulf of Thailand using the CGG Amadeus. The 3D campaign will cover 884sq km 3D and is estimated to last 41 days. The seismic program will be carried out…
Norwegian seabed seismic services company Magseis has selected acoustic positioning equipment from Sonardyne International to support its upcoming deep water ocean bottom seismic survey of the Red Sea. Beginning this month and working in partnership with BGP on behalf of Saudi Aramco…
The UK's Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded contracts for the second UK government funded £20 million seismic campaign to promote under-explored areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). PGS and WesternGeco have been awarded the…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is looking to sell 3D seismic data covering Block 31/5, as well as part of Block 31/4, southeast of Statoil’s Troll area that it acquired in September 2008 using the Ramform Challenger vessel. The seismic data…
UTEC Survey has completed a significant ROV navigation and seismic node positioning project in deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The project, for seismic nodal technology firm FairfieldNodal, was undertaken in 2425m water depth. It involved…
Norwegian offshore technology company inApril has won its first commercial agreement, worth US$25-30 million for Venator, its node-based seabed seismic acquisition system. In development since 2012, the Venator node-on-a-rope system…
Norwegian seismic firm PGS has started a new 3D seismic program in the Porcupine Basin offshore Ireland for Woodside. The Bréanann 3D seismic program started 27 June on Frontier Exploration License 3/14, says license partner Petrel. The total program is over 2400sq km…
TGS has started the Northwest Shelf Renaissance 2D seismic survey offshore North West Australia. The survey consists of approximately 8000km of long offset, broadband 2D seismic data as well as magnetic and gravity data. The survey is…
SeaBird Exploration, a provider of marine acquisition for 2D/3D and 4D seismic data, has entered into a contract for the purchase of the vessel Hawk Explorer and its seismic equipment. Hawk Explorer has been a chartered vessel in the SeaBird fleet since 2006…
There could be 25.5 billion bbl in place and 20.6 Tcf of gas in the West Orphan Basin, in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) 2016 Eastern Newfoundland Call for Bids, according to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador…
PGS’s newest Ramform Titan-class survey vessel, the Ramform Tethys,has made her first project a new world towing record by drawing the world's largest seismic spread. Image of the Ramford Tethys…
Saudi Aramco made five new oil and gas field discoveries, including one offshore field, and continued its exploration in the Red Sea in 2015. The Kingdom now has a total 134 discovered oil and gas fields. One of the latest was the Faskar offshore field…
MEO Australia’s Beehive has shown “very encouraging results” following seismic reprocessing and inversion study over prospect in WA-488-P, offshore Australia. The seismic inversion results have reinforced the interim reprocessing results…
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