Norway's SeaBird Exploration is to carry out a long offset 2D multi-client survey in the Barents Sea. SeaBird and Lundin Norway jointly designed the survey of deep seismic profiles to be acquired in the Barents Sea during September-October 2016…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded two contracts worth more than £2.5 million to Schlumberger WesternGeco and DownUnder Geosolutions (DUG), in collaboration with Geopartners, to supply around 15,000km of reprocessed multi-client…
CGG signed an agreement with GNPC Operating Services Co. (GOSCO), an independent Ghanaian E&P services company, to form a joint-venture company dedicated to conducting high-end 2D, 3D and 4D marine seismic acquisition and related services in the territorial waters of the Republic of Ghana…
CGG launched TopSeis, its latest offshore broadband seismic solution specifically designed to overcome the intrinsic lack of near offsets inherent in 3D towed-streamer seismic, at the 2016 Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) conference today (29 August)…
China Oilfield Services Ltd. (COSL) completed a 3D seismic survey in the Barents Sea using its 12-streamer seismic vessel HYSY 720. The operation, over two blocks, had taken 100 days and signified a new monthly seismic data acquisition record of 1820…
TGS and Schlumberger have started the Dual Coil Shooting multivessel full-azimuth acquisition Revolution XII and XIII surveys in the US Gulf of Mexico. The surveys will cover about 7150sq km (306 blocks) in the Green Canyon, Atwater Valley…
Elaine Maslin examines new UK government funded seismic shoots and data reprocessing, all free to the industry, which are among initiatives aimed at boosting UK Continental Shelf exploration. Seismic…
The UK's offhsore regulator, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has launched the 29th Offshore Licensing Round, with more than 1200 blocks on offer. The latest round has been set out to support the OGA’s objective of maximizing economic recovery…
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…
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