Exploration Opportunities

The Danish Energy Island

Bridging the gap between seismic acquisition and geotechnical parameterisation How a Portuguese and Danish consortium took on the challenge to map and characterise the shallow and deep subsurface for the…

Namibia’s Orange Basin and the holey slope mystery

On any 2D dip line, we can see several almost triangular notches, divots or holes in the seabed, some 1.5 km in width and 250 m deep. Upslope, the divot…

Supporting the search for large scale carbon storage sites

The role of the seismic industry in delivering successful CCS scale-up The seismic industry has, for a long time, been involved in helping to support the development and successful operation…

The Big Buzz of Buzzard II

Four 3D seismic surveys comprising the “Big Buzz” dataset. Buzzard II: the sequel How about looking for another Buzzard field, next to the one that was found over 20 years…

Santos Basin, Brazil: Understanding the CO₂ exploration risk with ultra-deep seismic

Location of pre-salt blocks in the Santos Basin, the Nebula-C polygon and exploration well results. Santos Basin: New seismic data helps de-risk CO₂ contamination for pre-salt exploration CGG’s latest imaging technology…

Quad 35 Hybrid MC3Ds: Innovative multi-parameter FWI for near field exploration

Figure 2: Gjøa Well Templates Show up on Timeslice 460 ms. Figure 3: Map of Geological Structures Around Quad 35. Utilising all hybrid acquired waveforms in a revolutionary MP-FWI processing…

Geneva: Why 3D seismic is essential for effective geothermal exploration

This timeslice below shows the top of the Cretaceous carbonate succession in the Geneva area. Observe the erosional channels, karst features and sinkholes, plus the major fault zones dissecting the…

Cameroon: Douala Kribi-Campo Basin – Seize the opportunity!

Location map showing CGG’s 3D seismic coverage in the DKC basin, well locations and hydrocarbon fields in the DKC and RDR basins. A close-up of a canyon – a seismic…

A big beast makes a big point

3D that’s fast, cheap and good! And all three together in the Hottest basin on Earth  So far this year, approximately 18,000 square km of new 3D was acquired in…