Exploration

Fugro and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Ocean Exploration and Research are focusing on mapping deepwater areas of the US Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

The UK Oil and Gas Authority has halted its licensing rounds for offshore exploration acreage in the North Sea at least until next year.

The company's backlog, from its new profile, at the end of February 2020 stands at US$537 million, up 34% compared to last year.

The companies have commenced operations on The Channel 3D survey in Lea County, New Mexico, US.

The project will be Shearwater’s first OBS remotely operated vehicle survey.

The second phase of the companies' ultra-long offset node project will extend the footprint of ultra-long offset data to the Northern Green Canyon protraction area.

Processing of the northern half of TGS's ocean-bottom node (OBN) multi-client survey in the Norwegian North Sea has been completed.

The Campos Deepwater GeoStreamer X project will deliver long offset, multi-azimuth seismic data over the deepwater portion of the northern Campos Basin.

An undisclosed customer will pre-fund a new multi-client CSEM data acquisition in the Walvis Basin using EMGS’s next generation DeepBlue.

Shearwater GeoServices has announced the award of a large towed streamer 3D acquisition and Fast Track processing project in the Black Sea by Total E&P Bulgaria B.V.

Ecopetrol drilled 20 wells in 2019, with a 40% success rate.

The company is to acquire a 12.5% interest in Block 2B located in the Orange Basin.

The contract is expected to start in April 2020.

The contract is with an unnamed major international oil company.

Final data is now available for the PGS Mawson MultiClient 3D seismic survey covering the prospective North Carnarvon Basin of Australia.