Geophysical survey vessel M/V Fugro Galaxy has arrived on location in the UK Seaward Licence P.2170 to begin a survey for Statoil over the Verbier prospect in the UK part of the North Sea. Independent oil and gas company Jersey Oil & Gas, a partner of Statoil in the license, said on Wednesday that t
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and Russian petroleum authorities (Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency, Rosnedra) have entered into an agreement to exchange seismic data from the areas around the demarcation line in the Barents Sea. “This agreement is extremely important, it allows
French geophysical company CGG has been awarded a contract by Mexican oil company Pemex to deliver an orthogonal wide-azimuth survey to improve subsalt seismic imaging in the Perdido deepwater area offshore Mexico. CGG said on Tuesday that the new wide-azimuth survey, covering 10,000 square kilomete
Norwegian offshore vessel provider Eidesvik Offshore and French geophysical company CGG have agreed to terminate with immediate effect the contract for the seismic vessel Viking Vision. According to Eidesvik’s statement on Thursday, the contract was due to expire at the end of July 2017. The shippin
Norwegian shipping company GC Rieber Shipping has signed an agreement with Rasmussengruppen to establish a new, jointly owned, marine geophysical company called Shearwater GeoServices. Shearwater GeoServices will become an integrated provider of marine geophysical services to oil and gas and multi-c
French geophysical company CGG has been awarded an extensive multi-client program by the Instituto Nacional de Petroleo (INP) to acquire seismic data offshore Mozambique. CGG said on Thursday that the multi-survey program is designed to improve industry insight into the region’s geology and provide
Searcher Seismic has informed that the acquisition of the 11,000 km Hahonua 2D seismic survey has started in the Gulf of Papua, offshore Papua New Guinea. This new acquisition, in partnership with BGP, increases Searcher’s total seismic data library in the region to over 70,000 km. In addition, Sear
Searcher Seismic, an independent multi-client company, has completed the acquisition of the Buscador Near-Shore 2D seismic survey offshore Mexico. Searcher said on Wednesday that the Buscador Near-Shore 2D seismic survey was acquired by its project partner, BGP. The survey data comprises 11,200 km o
TGS, a provider of multi-client geoscience data to oil and gas companies, has completed the acquisition of its 186,000 kilometers Gigante seismic survey offshore Mexico. TGS said on Tuesday that the acquisition of this survey began in June 2015 with five seismic vessels contracted to acquire a dense
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has completed the Bréanann 3D seismic acquisition program, in the northern Porcupine Basin offshore Ireland, for the Australian energy company Woodside. Around 1,400km2 of the Bréanann seismic survey is directly over or around FEL 3/14. Woodside is the operator of licens
Marine seismic acquisition company Polarcus has received a letter of intent for a 3D marine seismic acquisition in Europe. The seismic company said on Friday that it will be utilizing its XArray multiple source acquisition method to deliver the broadband dataset. This will be the company’s eighth XA
Marine seismic acquisition company Polarcus has received a contract award for a broadband 3D marine seismic project in Australasia. This latest contract award comes after the last week’s letter of award received by Polarcus for a 3D marine seismic acquisition project offshore Australia for an undisc
Spectrum is starting an 1,800 km2 Multi Client 3D seismic survey offshore Norway in the Western Barents Sea. Spectrum said on Thursday that the new survey, designed based on interest from industry will tie and complement Spectrum’s existing 3D surveys in the area. When completed the combined coverag
Multi-Client seismic data specialist Spectrum has been awarded the Tender Area 2 Broadband 2D multi-client seismic survey covering the southern Rovuma and north-eastern Zambezi Basins, offshore Mozambique. Spectrum was awarded the survey based on an invitation to submit proposals for Tender Areas 1
