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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Exploration Opportunities

Offshore Mauritania and Senegal

Nicolas Hand, Azzurra Cillari, Ian Edwards and David Jackson. Dolphin Geophysical Multi-Client New Ventures.
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

Nicolas Hand and David Jackson, Dolphin Geophysical Multi-Client New Ventures
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

Lauren Penn, Paolo Esestime and Karyna Rodriguez, Spectrum
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

Phillip Hargreaves, Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Ashleigh Hewitt (Spectrum)
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

Nicolas Hand and David Jackson, Dolphin Geophysical Multi-Client New Ventures
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

Dirk Cuthbertson
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

Gregor Duval and Matthew Dack, CGG
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

Mike Saunders and Dan Negri (Spectrum); Christopher Ross (Cross Quantitative Interpretation); Scott Bowman (Petrodynamics)
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

Bent Kjølhamar, Christopher Sæbø Serck , Camilla Broch Pedersen, Reidun Myklebust, TGS
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…

Imaging the next hydrocarbon province

Mari Schjeldsøe Berg and Øystein Lie (PGS ), Spyridon Bellas and Antonis Angelopoulos, Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (YPEKA)
Map of Greece showing the new data coverage and the exploration blocks extending along the western and southern offshore area. Schematic map showing the external geotectonic zones onshore and offshore…

Angola, Kwanza Basin: Sub-salt plays of the ultra-deep water

Gregor Duval, Jaswinder Mann and Lauren Houston, CGG
Exploring further and deeper Acquisition of marine seismic data using CGG’s broadband solution BroadSeis™, has greatly improved the imaging and interpretation of subsurface oil and gas reservoirs. Pre-salt reservoir targets…