A Minute to Read: CGG, in partnership with TGS, will acquire a 5,000 km² multi-client 3D seismic survey in the Barents Sea this summer.
Location of TopSeis survey to be acquired over the Greater Castberg area of the Barents Sea. Source: CGG Multi-Client and New Ventures.
CGG, in partnership with TGS, will acquire a 5,000 km² multi-client 3D survey in the Barents Sea this summer. The survey will use the latest developments of CGG’s TopSeis technology, combining an innovative source-over-spread acquisition configuration with advanced imaging to enable delineation of shallow-to-intermediate depth targets in the Barents Sea, not resolvable by conventional methods.
The next-generation TopSeis configuration deploys five sources on the source vessel, shooting over the centre of the streamer spread. An additional source on the streamer vessel provides long-offset data for Full Waveform Inversion and deep imaging. Previous TopSeis surveys in the Barents Sea delivered superior data for imaging and AVO due to the rich near-offset coverage, high trace density and low noise.
The survey will include the prospective Greater Castberg area, covering existing and newly awarded licences as well as open acreage with several play models in multiple geological layers. Fast-track PSDM data will be available in December 2019 and final data in Q4 2020.
Further Reading on CCG and TGS Activity in Oil & Gas
Some recommended articles relating to seismic data acquisition from CGG and TGS.
Depth Reprocessing Rejuvenates Exploration in the Gippsland Basin
Peter Baillie, Paul Carter, Jarrad Grahame, Joe Zhou and Nigel Mudge, CGG
CGG’s ReGeneration project overcomes the seismic imaging challenges of the Gippsland Basin, revealing new hydrocarbon exploration potential for the region of south-east Australia.
This article appeared in Vol. 16, No. 1 – 2019
The MSGBC Basin
Ben Sayers and Richard Cooke; TGS
TGS basin modelling provides new insights into the MSGBC Basin to help analogue-chasing the next SNE.
This article appeared in Vol. 15, No. 5 – 2018
