Noble Energy will resume exploratory drilling in the Falkland Islands next year after acquiring and reviewing extensive 3D seismic of its 10 million acre-position. In late February 2014, London-based joint venture partner Falkland Oil…
CGG has signed an exclusive multi-client data agreement with the Ministère du Pétrole et des Hydrocarbures of the Republic of Gabon. The agreement will see CGG launch a new multi-client survey program to acquire 35,000sq km of BroadSeisTM…
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has signed a data licensing agreement with a customer worth US$3.5 million for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS's multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. 'It satisfying to note that our multi…
Petroceltic International's joint venture with Edison International Spa has been awarded the North Port Fouad Block, in the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company 2013 International Bid Round. North Port Fouad (Block 7), is offshore the Nile Delta and lies to the north of…
Dolphin Geophysical has received confirmation from the Export Control Division of the Norwegian Foreign Department that the recently announced contract in the Kara Sea is not subject to the current trade restrictive measures against Russia…
German company RWE Dea has been awarded two offshore blocks in the Gulf of Suez in Egypt’s international bid round. The new RWE Dea licences in the Gulf of Suez Map from Dea RWE will become…
GeoPartners, in partnership with Seabird Exploration Multi-Client and DownUnder GeoSolutions, has announced a new multiclient 2D (MC2D) seismic project in the Frontier UK Rockall Basin offshore the north west coast of Scotland. The Rockall…
Brazil could be poised to become one of the largest oil producers in the world, according to senior executives speaking at this year’s Rio Oil and Gas conference. Monday’s Shell luncheon at the event offered an outlook on the changes…
CGG has been awarded contracts for the 3D seismic acquisition of four major surveys using its BroadSeisTM with BroadSourceTM, marine broadband technology. The four surveys represent a total contract value of over US$80 million. Three…
As Petroleum Geo-Services looks to further streamline its operations and cut costs, the company is stacking and considering scrapping or selling two vessels, and selling its PGS Khazar joint venture. PGS says the cuts, along with other initiatives…
Hansa Hydrocarbons hopes to start drilling in 2016 after completing a 3D seismic survey across '4Quads' licenses in blocks G18, H16, M3 and N1, offshore Netherlands. The survey covered about 965sq km, 40 km to the north of the Wadden…
Dolphin Geophysical is to acquire and process a 7000sq km SHarp Broadband 3D survey offshore Senegal under a contract with Kosmos Energy. The Dolphin high-capacity 3D vessel Polar Duchess (pictured) has started operations and it will take about four months to complete…
KrisEnergy Ltd. reported that the S.V. Nordic Bahari vessel began a 2D seismic survey in the Sakti production sharing contract (PSC) offshore East Java, Indonesia. The acquisition program, which will acquire 1200km of data, was awarded to PT…
Norway's Statoil and Nicaragua's DNP-Petronic signed a cooperation agreement for future oil and gas activities offshore Nicaragua's Pacific coast, it was announced on 3 September 2014. Statoil says that the consortium (Statoil and…
Dolphin Geophysical has been awarded an industry first ever 16 streamer 3D seismic contract for an undisclosed client in the Kara Sea. The contract has a duration of approximately three months and will start in Q2 2015. Dolphin will…
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