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…
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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…
Ultra-long offsets signal a bright future for OBN
The OBN survey, named Amendment, was acquired in the Mississippi Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico, a proving ground for OBN technology Survey sesign and capture…
Countdown to CCS
Figure 3: Three seismic sections through TGS’s 3D data over the Acorn CCS site, the Northern Endurance CCS site and a 2D line from TGS’s CFI-NSR dataset over the Northern…
Revealing the Intra-Zechstein hydrocarbon prospectivity on the UK Mid North Sea high
A newly acquired 3D seismic survey, covering the entire Zechstein play fairway in the UK Mid North Sea High, reveals the hydrocarbon potential of the complex and highly variable Intra-Zechstein…
Gippsland Basin, Australia: new data reveals further hydrocarbon potential in a mature basin
Map showing location and coverage of new Gippsland 3D survey. © CGG.To help the industry identify new and previously overlooked prospects in Australia’s Gippsland Basin, CGG acquired a new basin-scale…
Buscador: The ‘Searcher-Engine for Oil’ in Mexico’s hottest hotspot
Location of Searcher’s seismic datasets offshore Mexico with geological basins outlined and the location of major recent Talos and ENI discoveries. Offshore Mexico: extraordinary hydrocarbon play systems identified Improvements in…
Orphan Basin, Canada: from regional prospect screening to reliable reservoir attributes estimation
Figure 2: (a) Location of the Long Range, Tablelands and North Tablelands 3D surveys; (b) Locator map looking north across the surveys. The amplitude extraction on the seafloor demonstratesthe modern…
Why exploration offshore Somalia could reveal an oily surprise
Seismic line through Tertiary fold belt showing large high amplitude fold and thrust structures. © TGS. Seismic attribute display of the same line: (Far – Near) * Far. The black…