New life for the extended Orange Basin
The Orange Basin – An underexplored oil giant? The Orange Basin offshore Namibia and South Africa The Orange Basin is part of the volcanic-rifted passive margin south of the Walvis…
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Exploration opportunities in the Gambia and Senegal
Credit: TGS, GeoPartners. Connecting the shelf to the deepwater A flurry of hydrocarbon exploration activity continues in The Gambia and Senegal, and it is fuelled by drilling successes. The Gambia,…
Energy opportunity: Offshore Jamaica
Figure 1: Generalised map showing the Walton Morant Licence area, the identified prospectivity, well locations and seismic coverage. Geoseismic cross-section A–A’ is shown in Figure 7. Figure 2: A prominent…
Offshore Oman: stunning hydrocarbon geology from a closing ocean
Location map showingposition of composite line. Searcher. Offshore Oman Unexplored and tantalisingly prospective. The Eastern Oman Mountains are widely known as an ophiolite range of rugged and dramatic beauty,…
Seismic imaging-led sedimentology insight reveals extraordinary new potential in the Gulf of Papua
Figure 2: Location map and information. Foldout seismic line is located within PPL579. © Searcher. Stunning unexplored turbidite play revealed offshore Papua New Guinea Exceptional imaging from modern multi-client PSDM…
Unifying offshore Brazil: from the Abimael propagator to the Abrolhos Islands
Figure 1A: Regional map with red line cross-section location. 3D processing integrates regional seismic, offshore Brazil The new Picanha 3D dataset provides the ideal foundation for an exploration and production…
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…
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…
A Straightforward Workflow for Monitoring CO2 Storage
Estimating and appreciating the distribution of injected CO2 allows better understanding of the reservoir and identifies potential gas migration. Using PaleoScan™ provides a fast method from seismic conditioning to carbon…
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…