France-based geophysical services company CGG has secured a multi-year extension with Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) to continue operating a dedicated imaging center. The imaging center is located at BSP’s head office in Seria. CGG won the contract back in 2017 to operate the center for a period of si
Norwegian seismic company PGS has secured a 3D exploration acquisition contract in the Mediterranean with an “independent energy company”. Ramform Hyperion is set to commence acquisition late this month and is expected to complete the activities in mid-January 2023. PGS did not reveal any other deta
Blue Ocean Seismic Services (BOSS) has completed a series of passive and active seismic trials for its Marine Swarm Robotics technology, putting it on track to commence pre-commercial trials in the second half of 2023. Backed by bp Ventures, Woodside Energy and Blue Ocean Monitoring, BOSS is develop
Norwegian seismic company Magseis Fairfield has signed an agreement with a repeat customer for a 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) project in the North Sea. The project is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2023, with an expected duration of approximately one month. Activities will see the utiliza
TGS has commenced a 3D data reprocessing program offshore Uruguay, which covers blocks in the country’s active licensing round. Tannat 3D PSDM Repro consists of 25,000 square kilometers. According to TGS, the data will be regionally integrated and reprocessed using advanced techniques, including de-
Magseis Fairfield has reported a revenue of $99.3 million for the third quarter of 2022, up from $84.3 million in Q3 2021, despite technical downtime on a node handler and delayed start-up of a project. Revenue for the first three quarters of 2022 amounted to $277.9 million, compared to $185.9 milli
Norway’s PGS is set to mobilize the seismic vessel Ramform Titan for a new 3D exploration acquisition project offshore Namibia. PGS did not reveal any details about the project but did state that it had secured the contract with a “major energy company”. Ramform Titan will mobilize for the survey an
Shearwater GeoServices has secured a large ocean bottom node (OBN) project in the US Gulf of Mexico, representing the second award under the recently set up global agreement with WesternGeco. The contract is said to secure WesternGeco access for follow-on projects, providing certainty for continued
TGS has completed its 2022 NOAKA ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey two weeks ahead of schedule, marking the second successive season of dense OBN data acquisition in the region on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The project also signifies TGS’ fourth season of multi-client OBN projects i
Seismic vessel PXGEO 2 has begun a 3D project in the North Sea following the completion of an eight-month assignment offshore Egypt. PXGEO 2 is operating on a high-resolution 3D project in the North Sea, which came after the completion of a towed streamer project for TGS in the Egyptian Red Sea. On
Shearwater GeoServices has signed a multi-year global agreement with WesternGeco for geophysical data acquisition services, as well as secured a new contract offshore Australia. The agreement is said to enable access to Shearwater’s full range of acquisition technologies and global fleet of seismic
Norwegian seismic player TGS is planning to commence the Capreolus Phase 2 3D seismic survey in the Carnarvon Basin on the Australian North West Shelf by the end of the year. Capreolus Phase 2 will comprise 4,500 square kilometers of multi-client seismic data located in the Beagle Sub-Basin. This ar
Magseis Renewables, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Magseis Fairfield, has completed a high-resolution 3D seismic data acquisition offshore Norway over a carbon storage (CCS) area. For this project, the company utilised its extended high-resolution (XHR) acquisition technology combined with ocean botto
Sercel, a designer and manufacturer of seismic equipment, has made another ‘major’ sale of its GPR300 seabed nodal solution to geophysical services provider BGP. The sale of the second batch of 12,000 GPR300 nodes to BGP follows the earlier major order of 18,000 nodes in 2021. According to Sercel, t
