Marine geophysical firm Polarcus has been awarded an XArray 3D seismic acquisition project in South America by an undisclosed client. The project will start in the fourth quarter of 2017 and run for approximately ten weeks, the company said on Friday. However, no further details have been revealed a
A Remøy Group subsidiary, Remøy Standby, has sold the Ocean Odyssey vessel to a Norwegian client, Maritim Research I, a subsidiary of Maritim Management. Ocean Odyssey is a seismic research vessel of Aker AH 03 design, built by the Norwegian Søviknes yard in 2005. The vessel previously worked for We
Marine geophysical company Polarcus has received a letter of intent from an unnamed client to pre-fund a multi-client XArray 3D seismic acquisition project in the Middle East. The project is due to start in the fourth quarter of this year and will run for approximately two months, Polarcus said in a
Edinburgh-based Concept Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of ION Geophysical, has received backing from Scottish Enterprise for the enhancement of its Orca software. The Orca software is a survey planning and management tool for marine seismic survey planning. As explained by ION, Orca integrates a
Multi-client seismic data specialist Spectrum has announced the beginning of a 6,000 km multi-client 2D seismic survey covering the Ceara Basin within the Equatorial Margins of Northern Brazil. The Ceara Basin contains sectors of the 15th licensing round. The survey is being carried out in partnersh
Erin Energy’s offshore assets in Ghana have not been affected by the ruling brought on Saturday by an international tribunal with regard to the maritime boundary dispute between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. The Special Chamber of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg has de
French geophysical services company CGG has started the acquisition of its first complementary wide-azimuth (CWAz) survey in the southern Alaminos Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. CGG said on Monday that the BroadSeis 3D multi-client program, known as AC CWAz, of the Alaminos Canyon extended over 130 OCS blo
Polarcus has received a Letter of Award for a broadband 3D marine seismic project in Asia Pacific.
Searcher Seismic has started a multi-phase work offshore Argentina, with the first phase being an Offshore Basin Analysis Report providing a regional framework to understand the offshore basins of Argentina, assisting industry’s exploration efforts. The report has a single stratigraphic scheme with
Tullow Oil and its partner Eco Atlantic have completed an approximate 2,500 km2 3D seismic survey on the Orinduik Block offshore Guyana. The survey started in late July and it was conducted by Schlumberger’s Western Geco using R/V GECO Eagle and two supporting vessels. Eco Atlantic (Guyana) Inc, a s
French geophysical company CGG has started work on Espirito Santo IV, a large BroadSeis 3D multi-client survey in the deep and ultra-deep waters of the Espirito Santo Basin offshore Brazil. CGG said on Tuesday that the Oceanic Champion was acquiring the survey, which is expected to take seven months
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in early August published its final programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS), evaluating the environmental impacts of geological & geophysical surveys on marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico region. According to the bureau, the EIS establish
Schlumberger’s WesternGeco has completed a hybrid seismic acquisition survey offshore Malaysia using its newly deployed multipurpose vessel (MPV). According to Schlumberger’s statement on Thursday, this was a first acquisition of towed-streamer and ocean-bottom nodal seismic data with a single vesse
London-listed oil and gas company Empyrean Energy has completed 3D seismic data acquisition in Block 29/11 offshore China. Block 29/11 is approximately 1,800 square kilometers and is situated approximately 200 kilometers off Hong Kong in water depths ranging from 340-600 meters. Empyrean, a company
