French geophysical services company CGG has started the acquisition of its first complementary wide-azimuth (CWAz) survey in the southern Alaminos Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. CGG said on Monday that the BroadSeis 3D multi-client program, known as AC CWAz, of the Alaminos Canyon extended over 130 OCS blo
Polarcus has received a Letter of Award for a broadband 3D marine seismic project in Asia Pacific.
Searcher Seismic has started a multi-phase work offshore Argentina, with the first phase being an Offshore Basin Analysis Report providing a regional framework to understand the offshore basins of Argentina, assisting industry’s exploration efforts. The report has a single stratigraphic scheme with
Tullow Oil and its partner Eco Atlantic have completed an approximate 2,500 km2 3D seismic survey on the Orinduik Block offshore Guyana. The survey started in late July and it was conducted by Schlumberger’s Western Geco using R/V GECO Eagle and two supporting vessels. Eco Atlantic (Guyana) Inc, a s
French geophysical company CGG has started work on Espirito Santo IV, a large BroadSeis 3D multi-client survey in the deep and ultra-deep waters of the Espirito Santo Basin offshore Brazil. CGG said on Tuesday that the Oceanic Champion was acquiring the survey, which is expected to take seven months
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in early August published its final programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS), evaluating the environmental impacts of geological & geophysical surveys on marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico region. According to the bureau, the EIS establish
Schlumberger’s WesternGeco has completed a hybrid seismic acquisition survey offshore Malaysia using its newly deployed multipurpose vessel (MPV). According to Schlumberger’s statement on Thursday, this was a first acquisition of towed-streamer and ocean-bottom nodal seismic data with a single vesse
London-listed oil and gas company Empyrean Energy has completed 3D seismic data acquisition in Block 29/11 offshore China. Block 29/11 is approximately 1,800 square kilometers and is situated approximately 200 kilometers off Hong Kong in water depths ranging from 340-600 meters. Empyrean, a company
Norwegian Ocean Bottom Seismic services provider Magseis saw its revenues rise to $19.4 million in the second quarter, boosted by work in Saudi Arabia and Norway. The company said its survey in with the Artemis Athene vessel in the Red Sea, being done for Saudi Aramco, along with OBN work for Conoco
Seismic survey company ION Geophysical has informed that a new 2D multi-client program offshore Panama is in progress. Supported by industry funding, this is the first seismic survey acquired there in approximately 30 years. The survey is designed to provide the framework to evaluate the hydrocarbon
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued the final programmatic environmental impact statement regarding the proposed geological and geophysical surveys in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. According to Earth Justice, an environmental group, the four-volume, 2592 pages, BOEM document, con
Polarcus has been awarded a contract for a broadband 3D marine seismic project in the Asia Pacific region. The one-month project is due to start imminently, Polarcus said in a statement on Thursday. The work restores backlog in the third quarter for the Polarcus fleet after part of a previously awar
SeaBird Exploration, a provider of marine acquisition, has entered into an option agreement with TGS Nopec to provide up to 600 vessel days of seismic services. The agreement offers TGS access to one or more SeaBird vessels to perform seismic services on a global basis, SeaBird informed on Monday. T
SeaBird Exploration, a global provider of marine acquisition, has signed a letter of intent to conduct a shallow water 3D seismic survey in the West Africa region. The project is anticipated to start during the first half of 2018 and will have a duration of approximately two months, SeaBird said in
