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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…

Seismic ocean bottom node acquisition without ROV

Jillian D. Young-Lorenz, Allton

June 27, 2024

Guided by industry demand for improved efficiency and reduced costs for the acquisition of sparse node grid seismic and 2D transects, Allton was led to research and develop an innovative…

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…

A new and unique multi-client core scanning and thin section digital catalog from pre-salt reservoirs offshore Brazil

James Shreeve and Lucas Rocha Frascaroli, Geotek and Félix Gonçalves, Solintec

April 8, 2024

The Pre-Salt reservoirs in Brazil are home to some of the world’s largest oil and gas reserves and one of the most exciting exploration frontiers. However, until now the exceptional…

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…

Rejuvenating legacy seismic for screening carbon storage sites in the Gulf of Mexico

Neville Brookes, Ravi Kumar, Gregor Duval and Simon Otto - CGG

March 11, 2024

A major challenge in the US Gulf of Mexico is transforming disparate public datasets into a quality-controlled database. CGG has successfully created and used a database for its Storage Play…

The Big Buzz of Buzzard II

Neil Hodgson, Lauren Found and Karyna Rodriguez – Searcher

January 15, 2024

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

Roberto Juncken, Bruna Lyra, Mariano Gatti, Abraham Rodriguez, CGG, and Natasha Stanton, Andres Gordon, University of Rio De Janeiro State

January 8, 2024

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…

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