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Exploration of the Papuan Plateau: How revolutionary geophysical technology reveals new seismic insights

Lauren Found, Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Helen Debenham, Searcher

September 16, 2024

Searcher’s Papuan Plateau 2D seismic. Holding out for a hero: How evolving geophysical technology revolutionised a Frontier Basin A lot can change in twenty years. In 2004, the Nintendo DS…

Unlocking Gulf energy: The impact of advanced seismic technologies on exploration

Andrey Bogachev, TGS

September 9, 2024

Finding treasures beneath the waves: The role of advanced seismic technologies in the Gulf of Mexico The Gulf Of Mexico (GOM) has long been a cornerstone of America’s energy landscape,…

With ‘real-time’ reservoir management now within reach, energy companies are seeing they simply have no choice but to adapt to the growing technology landscape

Abdulqadir Cader, Harry Whittaker and Ciaran Collins, Geoteric

September 3, 2024

Basemap: Location of the UKCS 3D Seismic Merge – Central North Sea (polygon) with an associated High Definition Frequency Decomposition RGB colour blend along time slice 1960 ms. Why the…

T&T deep water bid round: A gateway to energy opportunities

Jeniffer Masi, Geoex MCG, Donna-Marie Lezama, Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries, Trinidad and Tobago

August 26, 2024

Trinidad and Tobago: A vital 2024 deepwater frontier The Caribbean Atlantic Margin Deep Imaging seismic survey (CAMDI) spans 16,348 km with long offsets (12 km) and a deep record length…

Orpheus in the Mialara Sub-Basin

Karyna Rodrigues, Lauren Found and Neil Hodgson, Searcher

July 8, 2024

Searcher’s Philippines 2D seismic. East of Eden: The Mialara basin, the Philippines’ last low-risk frontier for exploration greatness Arguably the first subterranean explorer to return from the untrodden lands below…

New plays in Southern Santos Basin revealed by large-scale, high quality 3D multi-client seismic

Milos Cvetkovic and Francisco Colina, TGS

July 1, 2024

Figure 2: Map showing extent of Santos 3D Sul project in relationship with other TGS 2D and 3D programs. Leveraging integrated workflows and fast track data for prospect evaluation during…

Norwegian North Sea: Identifying details of Lower Cretaceous sand fairways on the Måløy Slope

Irina Pene, Silje Rogne, Jaswinder Mann-Kalil and Marit Stokke Bauck, Viridien

June 26, 2024

Left: Map showing location of Viridien’s Northern Viking Graben (NVG) datasets. Single-azimuth reimaging was performed on the NVG data in the area outlined by the yellow polygon. The seismic section,…

New GeoStreamer X multi-azimuth seismic dataset in the Norwegian Sea unlocks new prospectivity

Marcin Przywara, Stefan Möller and Jens Beenfeldt, PGS

June 10, 2024

The GeoStreamer X 2022 survey is shown in orange, highlighting the location of the line displayed. The survey area for the GeoStreamer X 2023 survey and the 2024 programs is…

The Danish Energy Island

Martin Bak Hansen, Louise Sandberg Sørensen and Jens Solberg-Larsen, Energinet, Ana Maia and Henrique Duarte, GeoSurveys and Bruno Stuyts and Esben Dalgaard, SolidGround

May 27, 2024

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

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez, Lauren Found, Searcher

May 13, 2024

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

Nick Lee, Bill Powell, Tilman Kluver and Cyrille Reiser, PGS

May 8, 2024

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…

Why the conjugate margin in Uruguay and Southern Brazil may have even more to offer than the Orange Basin in Namibia

Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher, and Pablo Rodriguez and Bruno Conti, ANCAP

March 18, 2024

Gondwanan break-up-basins and their multiple source rocks The advantage of Namibia’s conjugate margin in Uruguay and Southern Brazil is likely to be the sand and clay deposited by the Rio…

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