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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…

Kirkuk. A Silent Giant Oilfield

Munim Al-Rawi, Ph.D., Carta Design Ltd.
The giant Kirkuk field, discovered in 1927, has had a very chequered history and requires imaginative reservoir engineering methods to return it to optimum productivity. The Kirkuk oilfield is partly…

Around the world in 59 Stages

Richard Tyson and Amanda Galsworthy, Getech
Reducing exploration risk through modeling Building Tool-Sets for Global Exploration: Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology and Source Rocks Source rocks are a pre-requisite of any petroleum system. Whilst the deposition of a potential…

Beaufort West: new insight into a Frontier Basin

Ann E. Walker and Brian W. Horn, ION Geophysical
Location of foldout line BW1-2800 within the ION Geophysical BeaufortSPAN™ seismic program: Canada Basin, south western Arctic Ocean. The Alpine, Kuparuk River, and Prudhoe Bay fields are located within the…

Côte d’Ivoire: completing the jigsaw

Matthew Tyrrell, PGS & Dr. Ibrahima Diaby, Petroci
Base map of central offshore Côte d’Ivoire showing the PGS multiclient seismic data library, together with the location of the four wells discussed in the text. Awaken your structural geologist!…

Towed streamer EM for success

Ingvild Ryggen Carstens
Close-up of Johan Castberg area. Example comparison between the measured resistivity at wells in the Johan Castberg and Caurus areas and the resistivity recovered via anisotropic inversion. See the big…

Caspian Sea: Frontier exploration in the middle Caspian basin

Jaswinder Mann and Gregor Duval, CGG
CGG’s study area covers the offshore Middle Caspian Basin within Russia and Kazakhstan. A regional 2D seismic grid has been used to assess the area’s petroleum geology. This CGG multi-client dataset…

South West Barents Sea

Olav A. Blaich and Gustav A. Ersdal, Fugro Multi Client Services
Survey area superimposed on the main structural elements and license situation of the western Barents Sea. Geoseismic representation of an inline within the South West Barents Sea fast track – post stack…

Brazil is back in the game

David Contreas Diaz, Polarcus
New lights on Santos   The prolific pre-salt province in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil is experiencing a renewed hydrocarbons boom. With recent regulatory changes, the ANP has managed to attract some…

SHETLAND ROCKS! Improved sub-basalt structural imaging

Bent Baumbach, project development, TGS - Bedford, UK
Left: Location of the Faroe Shetland Basin (FSB) dataset. Right: FSB dataset line location map. West of Shetland: improved sub–basalt imaging Newly reprocessed long offset seismic data from the Faroe…