
Seabed Geosolutions secures new ocean bottom node contract in Brazil
Seabed Geosolutions has been awarded a large 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Santos Basin in Brazil. Seabed Geosolutions’ new, Manta node system will be used.
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Seabed Geosolutions has been awarded a large 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Santos Basin in Brazil. Seabed Geosolutions’ new, Manta node system will be used.

ION Geophysical Corporation has announced a new 2D multi-client programme offshore Gabon, EquatorSPAN™ II, in cooperation with the Gabon Ministry of Petroleum and Hydrocarbons, Direction Général des Hydrocarbures of Gabon (DGH).

An independent reserves assessment of TAG Oil’s interests suggests an approximate 27% increase in annual reserves revisions.

The new contract will run for a further three years, from 1 March 2017 to 28 February 2020.

Geoscientists in the oil & gas industry face many challenges in their quest to de-risk and drill the best wells and more confidently forecast production.

Condor Petroleum Inc., a Canadian based oil and gas company focused on exploration and production activities in Turkey and Kazakhstan, provides an operations update.

CGG’s JumpStart™ multi-client geoscience programs integrate the most advanced seismic data with reviewed, calibrated and interpreted well and geological data for petroleum systems evaluation, supported by regional interpretations and reports.

Programme covers both conventional and unconventional lease blocks

The well is to be drilled in a prospect named Carmen in block 6507/8 at Haltenbanken. The site is 222 km west of Brønnøysund in Nordland county and 10 km north-east of Heidrun.

Statoil has signed a swap agreement with BP and has been granted regulatory approval to take over two exploration permits and extend its work program in the Great Australian Bight.

CGG has announced that the final products from its Encontrado multi-client reprocessing project across the Gulf of Mexico’s prolific Perdido fold belt have been delivered on schedule to the Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) and the industry.

With a maiden voyage that takes her to the deep waters of Ireland’s Atlantic margin and the far North of the Barents Sea, Fugro Venturer is the newest of Fugro’s purpose-designed, standardised survey vessels, originally formulated in 2013.