China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL), a Chinese offshore services provider, has completed its first exploration operation in the Far East. COSL informed in early June it won a seismic acquisition contract in the “Far East” but did not reveal the name of the client nor the exact location of the sur
Offshore and subsea shipping company Siem Offshore has agreed to extend the current charter period for the vessel Hugin Explorer. Siem said on Thursday that the extension of the charter is for an additional 15 months taking the firm period of the charter up to July 1, 2019. The financial details of
Magseis, a Norwegian geophysical company, has together with its partner BGP Arabia officially started operations on Saudi Aramco’s project in the Red Sea. Magseis was awarded Saudi Aramco’s S78 project for large-scale ocean bottom seismic acquisition in the Red Sea in February 2016. The company said
Searcher Seismic, an independent multi-client company, has started reprocessing of 2D seismic data offshore Western Australia. The company said on Friday that PDSM (Pre-Stack Depth Migration) reprocessing involves 7,000 km of 2D seismic data in the Browse Basin. This project will reprocess Searcher’
Magseis, a Norwegian geophysical company, has selected acoustic positioning equipment from Sonardyne to support its upcoming deepwater ocean bottom seismic survey of the Red Sea. Sonardyne said on Monday that the S78 project will begin in July and last for nine months with the company collaborating
UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded contracts for the second UK Government funded £20 million ($26.6M) seismic campaign to promote underexplored areas of UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) PGS and WesternGeco have been awarded the contracts to acquire seismic data from the East Shetland Platform a
Searcher Seismic has informed that the Olympus 3D reprocessing project in the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia, has started processing at DownUnder GeoSolutions’ Perth facility. The project, in cooperation with Spectrum, comprises the reprocessing of 20 existing 3D datasets through a broadband pre
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is selling 3D seismic data from an area southeast of Troll field, block 31/5 as well as a small part of Block 31/4, located in the North Sea. The NPD, a government agency whose task is to manage the oil and gas resources on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, a
Searcher Seismic has informed the BGP Pioneer seismic vessel has started acquisition of the Buscador Near-Shore 2D Seismic Survey, offshore Mexico. The project comprises 11,200 km of high quality, long-offset 2D data and specifically targets the near shore areas covering rounds 2, 3 and 4. The data,
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) started the Bréanann 3D seismic program, located in the Frontier Exploration Licence 3/14 in the Porcupine Basin, Irish Atlantic, on June 27 for the Australian energy company Woodside. Woodside is the operator of licences FEL 3/14 and FEL 4/14 in the Irish Atlantic with
Norwegian provider of marine seismic technology for the oil and gas industry, inApril, signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Kazakhstan’s Geo Energy Group (GEG) for its first seabed seismic system. inApril said on Thursday that the LOI is for an agreement potentially worth $25-30 million for the supp
Rod Starr (photo) was named the CEO of Polarcus, a marine geophysical company, in February 2015, at the time when the oil price was slightly over $50 a barrel, down from over a $100 in mid-2014, after having spent years at TGS-NOPEC (TGS), another Oslo-listed seismic company. We caught him on the ph
TGS, a provider of multi-client geoscience data to oil and gas exploration and production companies, has announced the start of the Northwest Shelf Renaissance 2D seismic survey, offshore North West Australia. TGS said on Wednesday that the survey consists of approximately 8,000km of long offset, br
Searcher Seismic, an independent multi-client company, in cooperation with project partner BGP, has completed the acquisition of a new survey offshore Norway and another offshore Western Australia. Searcher Seismic said on Wednesday that Phase 2 of the Silver-Eye 3D Seismic Survey in the Barents Sea
