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Banda Arc: broadband 2D seismic unlocks frontier area

Jarrad Grahame and Pedro Martinez Duran, CGG

April 17, 2020

BandaSeis 2D seismic line locations by phase, and corresponding offshore areas. New broadband imaging reveals prospectivity insights New high quality seismic datasets and a regional prospectivity study bring greater…

Mexico: Maximus survey – opportunities in deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Jeroen Hoogeveen and Jennifer Masy; MultiClient Geophysical AS (MCG)

April 17, 2020

Figure 3: Location map of the Maximus survey. The importance of depth imaging Depth modelling using several algorithms has significantly improved salt imaging in the deepwater Bay of Campeche. The…

North Gabon: lightning strikes connect the Gulf of Mexico subsalt trend to North Gabon

Karyna Rodriguez, Neil Hodgson, Howard Nicholls and Paolo Esestime, TGS

December 12, 2019

Figure 1: Final Velocity model (TVDSS). Detached salt bodies and well-defined salt flanks resulting from several iterations of manually picked salt bodies provided to constrain the tomographic updates. The tanzanites,…

Côte d’Ivoire: regional understanding to unlock hydrocarbon potential

William Powell and Avril Burrell, PGS: Ibrahima Diaby and Marcelle Gauly, Petroci

December 10, 2019

Map showing location of seismic line. Extending Oil and Gas Exploration Potential to Western Côte d’Ivoire Regional seismic data allows petroleum plays to be interpreted in full for the first…

2019 bid round treasures exposed by ocean currents

Karyna Rodriguez and Neil Hodgson, TGS

December 10, 2019

Location of the Angoche Basin and Spectrum 2D seismic lines. Drifting towards 2019 bid round treasures Mixed/hybrid deepwater turbiditic-contouritic depositional systems are only just beginning to be understood, but show…

Deepwater Santos Basin: extending the pre-salt play outboard

Cian O'Reilly, James Keay, Jianli Song, Griselda Martinez, Seung Yoo Taejong Kim, Eric Newman and Pedro Zalan; TGS

December 10, 2019

Huge potential in undrilled Southern Santos Basin The prospectivity of the deepwater outboard Santos Basin is revealed by new 3D seismic. With a daily oil production in the region of…

Diving deeper to reveal hydrocarbon potential in the Barents Sea

Sören Naumann and Rune Sakariassen; PGS

December 6, 2019

A novel solution tailored for the Barents Sea An unusual acquisition configuration resolves the challenges of the Barents Sea through an innovative combination of streamer setup and advanced imaging technologies. The…

Atlantic offshore Morocco: new data, new insights

Steve Lawrence; SRC for Geoex

December 6, 2019

Regional geology of Morocco is key to new understanding Seismic data provide new clues to crustal architecture and deformation history A late Cretaceous ‘Atlantis’ The 2018 Morocco Atlantic Margin Well…

Santos vision: innovative seismic data processing in a super giant oil basin

Hermann Lebit, Sriram Arasanipalai, Jeff Tilton and Pascal Ollagnon; PGS

December 5, 2019

Figure 1: Structural map of the top of salt encompassing the 34,000 km2 of the Santos Vision program and including the outline of the next phase extension. The survey covers…

What lies beneath: unraveling the potential of the East Palawan Basin, Philippines

Andrew Weller, Searcher Seismic Pty Ltd, and Krista Davies, Discover Geoscience Pty Ltd

December 5, 2019

Map showing the location of the East Palawan data (white), acquired in conjunction with the DOE, TGS and Seabird, overlying the free-air gravity anomaly (relative highs in whites/reds, lows in…

Australia: depth reprocessing rejuvenates Gippsland Basin

Peter Baillie, Paul Carter, Jarrad Grahame, Joe Zhou and Nigel Mudge, CGG

December 4, 2019

Changing perceptions ReGeneration project overcomes the imaging challenges of the Gippsland Basin. Over the last ten years CGG has gained extensive experience in the processing and reprocessing of legacy datasets…

The chase for oil in offshore Somalia

Karyna Rodriguez, Neil Hodgson and David Eastwell, Spectrum Geo; Abdulkadir Abiikar Hussein, Mopmr, Federal Government of Somalia

December 3, 2019

Figure 1: Spectrum 2D datasets offshore Somalia. The illusive oil-prone region of offshore Somalia Offshore Somalia remains one of the last truly frontier passive margins in the world. Only two…

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