CGG and Magseis Fairfield have completed the 2020 acquisition of the largest OBN survey ever acquired in the North Sea. The OBN Cornerstone 2020 multi-client survey in the UK Central North Sea commenced in March 2020. The survey saw approximately 1,650 square kilometres of long-offset, full-azimuth
Seismic exploration company Shearwater GeoServices has secured a contract from Petrobras for a large ocean bottom node (OBN) 4D baseline survey over the Jubarte field in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. The 810 square kilometres survey will commence in the first half of 2021 and take place over a 3
Fibre optic monitoring specialist Silixa has launched its distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) based solution for continuous or on-demand monitoring of all stages of carbon capture and storage (CCS) operations. According to the company, the new solution ‘Carina CarbonSecure’ offers offshore and on-lan
Seismic player SeaBird said it will list its wholly-owned subsidiary Green Minerals on Euronext Growth Oslo. According to the prospectus, the listing should take place during the first quarter of next year. The move is part of a funding plan to raise minimum NOK 30 million from the issuance of new o
Turkey is extending its seismic survey operations in the disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean by nearly a week, which could spark further tension.
Early-out pre-stack time migration (PSTM) products are now available from PGS latest multiclient 3D survey in the Namibe Basin. Norwegian seismic player wrapped up its 2020 acquisition campaign in Angola’s Namibe Basin in September this year. The vessel Ramform Sovereign completed the project offsho
Australian energy company Santos plans to acquire a 3D marine seismic survey in the Bedout Sub-basin on the central North West Shelf called the Archer 3D MSS. The Archer 3D MSS is located within exploration permit areas WA-437-P and WA-541-P, and surrounding waters. The 3D seismic data will help dev
Norwegian seismic player TGS has kicked off the Malvinas 3D project in Argentina and scored two surveys offshore Brazil. The Malvinas survey was first announced to the market on 4 August this year. The BGP vessel Prospector will acquire approximately 5,000 square kilometres, which will bring the tot
Miclyn Express Offshore (MEO) vessel, Miclyn Enterprise, has set sail on its maiden subsea voyage to Indonesian waters. This follows the fitment of a 20T knuckle boom crane and the vessel’s reflagging from Panama to Indonesian flag. Miclyn Enterprise is performing pipeline monitoring operations for
Subsurface Imaging, part of CGG’s Geoscience division, has secured two large-scale seismic reprocessing contracts from PTTEP. Over the course of the next year, CGG, through its offices in Kuala Lumpur, will conduct merged reprocessing of surveys from many vintages, including towed-streamer as well a
Seismic exploration company Shearwater GeoServices has won a ‘large’ towed streamer 3D acquisition and fast track processing project from Total E&P Senegal. The exploration survey covers 5,000 square kilometres in the UDO Block Exploration area, offshore Senegal. For the purpose of the data acquisit
Seabed seismic player Magseis Fairfield has returned to profit in Q3 2020 despite major revenue drop against the prior-year quarter. The Oslo-listed company generated Q3 2020 revenue of $47 million, down from $134 million same time last year. Revenue was up from Q2 2020 revenue of $45 million. The y
Seismic surveys have for decades been a key part of offshore exploration, producing comprehensive imagery of sub-bottom rock formations that allow the location and evaluation of oil and gas deposits. They also find their use in assessments of the seabed for offshore construction, installations of re
Oslo-listed SeaBird has recognised net loss of $3.9 million for Q3 2020, against net loss of $5 million in the same period in 2019. The seismic player recorded revenues of $3 million in Q3, an 81 per cent drop compared to $16 million in Q3 2019. The company had quarterly vessel utilization of 28 per
