Exploration

SigmaWave is fully integrated with Sercel’s existing downhole seismic tools and enables continuous, real-time seismic measurements along the entire length of a fibre optic cable.

The company has commenced its 2019 drilling campaign with the spudding of an exploration well at the Blackrock prospect.

The solution can be fitted to all Sercel Nomad seismic vibrator trucks and works by optimising a truck’s travel time to the next vibrating point (VP) and reducing baseplate dead time.

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company signed an agreement awarding the exploration rights for Abu Dhabi Onshore Block 4 to Japan’s INPEX CORPORATION.

Jo Firth and Priyabrata Pradhan, CGG, UK, explore the value in reprocessing legacy seismic data sets.

Frontera Energy Corporation and GeoPark Limited, as part of a consortium, have announced that they have been awarded production sharing contracts on two blocks in Ecuador's Intracampos Bid Round.

The company has entered into an agreement with Eni to acquire a 30% participating interest in the Tarfaya Shallow Exploration Permit, a series of 12 neighbouring offshore blocks along the Atlantic coast of the Kingdom of Morocco.

The discovery opens new opportunities for oil exploration in the north-west part of the prolific Block 15/06.

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The company entered into an agreement with Eni to acquire a 25.5% participating interest in block A5A, located in the Angoche basin, offshore the Republic of Mozambique.

The company has announced a new multi-client onshore 3D seismic project, South Hackberry 3D, located on the east flank of the Anadarko Basin in Garfield, Kingfisher and Logan Counties, Oklahoma.

Glaucus is a giant,” Robert Morris, senior research analyst, Europe upstream, at global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, said. “It will be one of the biggest discoveries of the year.”

From first production at the development, Equinor plans to use seafloor based seismic cable permanent reservoir monitoring (PRM) technology to observe what is happening in the reservoir over time to help maximise recovery rates.

LO16/20 includes the Company’s flagship Inishkea prospect which lies immediately to the north west of, and abuts, the producing Corrib gas field in the Corrib Field Petroleum Lease Area.

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