Horda Platform: Exploring the Cretaceous
Map showing the location of the new CGG multi- client survey. The annotated seismic line runs from south to north-east across the area. Cretaceous reservoirs in the Northern North Sea…
Exploration Opportunities
Quantitative interpretation reveals prospectivity of the Kwanza shelf, offshore Angola
Location of the new PGS multisensor GeoStreamer survey over the Kwanza Shelf, Offshore Angola (orange polygon). The 2021 licence round blocks are shown in yellow. Kwanza shelf potential petroleum systems…
Offshore Mauritania and Senegal
Location of main foldout line. Slope/Channel Complexes Offshore North West Africa Newly acquired and reprocessed seismic reveals potential masked by complex geometries. In 2011 TGS and Dolphin Geophysical acquired a…
3D Seismic and SHarp Broadband 2D – UtStord and South Viking Graben
3D seismic and SHarp Broadband 2D from the UtStord and South Viking Graben areas of the UK-Norwegian North Sea show improved imaging throughout the entire geological section. In 2013 Dolphin…
Foz do Amazonas Basin: latest exploration enhances prospectivity
Exciting opportunities and new play concepts The underexplored Foz do Amazonas Basin has huge potential, revealed through integrating seismic and CSEM data. The Foz do Amazonas Basin, the most northerly of…
Driven to success on the seismic superhighway
3D seismic risk reduction for license round Phillip Hargreaves On Australia’s North West Shelf, acreage in shallow water multi-TCF neighborhoods is highly prized and competitively sought. To assess the value…
Offshore Senegal: Sud Profond 3D illustrates potential
Figure 1: An intra-Jurassic TWT surface over the 3D survey area with incised feeder valleys and karstified carbonate terrain. Downdip, there is an amplitude extraction highlighting the Late Cretaceous slope…
Global plate tectonic modelling
Constrained By Data Well and seismic data can be very sparse in frontier regions; however Getech’s extensive global gravity and magnetic database, the largest commercially available dataset of its kind,…
Exploring the Mid North Sea high
Hunting the carboniferous play New regional broadband 3D seismic data reveals more information about the geology of this poorly understood region. CGG recently undertook the acquisition of a large 3D…
Sergipe Basin, Brazil: DHIs from calibrated AVO stacks
Map showing the Sergipe Basin, the location of the Barra discovery well and seismic lines discussed in this article. (Source: Spectrum). AVO signatures help identify hydrocarbons In the relatively mature…
Hoop Basin: Drilling success and playground for new exploration methods
The Hoop Basin The integration of several data sets will be essential for hydrocarbon exploration in the Hoop Fault Complex area of the Barents Sea. The Hoop Fault Complex has…
Guinea-Bissau: New insights into the geology and deepwater exploration potential
Improved imaging and new insights A detailed reconnaissance study of Polarcus’s 3D multi-client data has revealed a complex shelf to basin sediment transport system feeding into classic deepwater West African…