Northern North Sea: a dual-azimuth solution
Figure 1: Overview map.The Northern North Sea is very active for oil and gas exploration with several commercial discoveries made over recent years. CGG’s Northern Viking Graben (NVG) multi-client survey…
Exploration Opportunities
From agua caliente (‘hot water’) to aceite caliente! (‘hot oil!’)
Please note: due to online file size limits we have had to scale down the resolution of this foldout. You can find the higher resolution version on pp42-46 of GEO ExPro…
Improving 3D images
A deep, structurally complex carbonate reservoir offshore Philippines has been imaged with great clarity and resolution, despite the severely rugose water bottom and stratigraphically complex overburden. This has been accomplished…
Barents Sea: new TopSeis images illuminate near-field opportunities
Map showing location of CGG/TGS Greater Castberg TopSeis survey (5,168 km²) acquired in the Barents Sea in 2019, and the main structural elements. Greater Castberg Survey – A catalyst for…
AI seismic interpretation for a better, more sustainable tomorrow
Figure 2: Base map showing the location of the Southern North Sea study area used throughout this project. A catalyst of change for net-zero How can state-of-the-art AI tools be…
The Greater Orphan Basin: unraveling Newfoundland’s emerging energy plays
Figure 1: Major tectonic and structural elements of the Grand Banks. The pull-apart geometry of the Orphan Basin is well outlined by the breakup (Cretaceous) unconformity as well as the…
Can sparse OBN equal savings and data quality?
Geology The study area is in ultradeep waters (2 km) of the Santos Basin and the geology is comprised of a 2–4 kilometer-thick sequence of mostly clastic sedimentary rocks overlaying…
What does it mean when bottom simulators are black swans?
Map showing location of Searcher Seismic’s coverage of newly acquired and reprocessed datasets in the Gulf of Papua (GOP). The foldout line is located within the GOP. Bottom simulating…
UK Continental Shelf: an evolution in 3D seismic imaging of the Central North Sea
Exploring the deeper potential of the Central North Sea With recent successes, such as the Glengorm and Isabella discoveries, the Central North Sea is proving that the deeper potential may…
Offshore Colombia: discovering new value in legacy data using modern workflows
Figure 2a: Basemap showing ION’s Colombia Caribe Reprocessing project, highlighting the 18 vintage surveys in offshore Colombia, PanamaSPAN and AntillesSPAN of the western Caribbean. Figure 1: Regional tectonic framework…
True hybrid 3D
Figure 1: Map showing the location of the Quad 35 survey in the Norwegian North Sea and long arbitrary line through the main discoveries inside the Quad 35 survey…
GeoStreamer X delivers near-field multi-azimuth dataset for accurate lead characterisation, South Viking Graben, Norway
Figure 1: The GeoStreamer X Viking Graben location (left) and acquisition conu001F gurations (right). Two new azimuths were acquired in 2019 in addition to the 2011 survey; the new azimuths…