Exploration

ION has delivered a regional framework consisting of approximately 30 000 km of data over the Austral and Malvinas basins' relatively under-explored petroleum region.

As part of the Argentina’s Gas y Petróleo del Neuquén’s (GyP) 5th bidding round, Statoil has been awarded the Bajo del Toro Este exploration license as operator in the Neuquén basin.

The Iris/Hades (Aerosmith) well is located in the Halten Terrace, some 200 km offshore in the Norwegian Sea and adjacent to the producing Morvin and Aasgard fields.

The total amount of the operation is US$ 54.5 million and will be paid on the closing date of the deal.

CGG has announced the delivery of the final time-processed data from its Northern Viking Graben multi-client 3D BroadSeis™-BroadSource™ survey. This includes 35 000 sq. km of subsurface images across the Norwegian Northern North Sea.

GC Rieber Shipping ASA's 50% owned geoservices company Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a 3D broadband marine seismic acquisition contract by ONGC for the planned 2017/2018 field season.

Block 49 is an onshore block that covers a prospective but still rather unexplored area in the South West of the Sultanate bordering the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

380 square miles of fast-track data are now available, completing this portion of the project.

Comet Ridge Managing Director, Tor McCaul, said this transaction is a key step in unlocking significant value potential from the Galilee Basin.

Cairenn is the first of a series of multi-client surveys that CGG has recently been acquiring in the area. PSDM products for its Galway survey will be delivered before the end of the year.

The acquisition broadens Emerson’s software capabilities to serve global oil and gas industry.

The API has announced that estimated wells completed in 3Q17 increased 63% compared to 3Q16.

Churchill Drilling Tools has seen a growing demand for its technology with a record number of dart activations in August 2017.

Add Energy has recently secured work with three operators in the North Sea for the provision of Environmental Management and Reporting Software (NEMS Accounter).

Ensco plc has announced the completion of its acquisition of Atwood Oceanics, Inc.