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UK Continental Shelf: an evolution in 3D seismic imaging of the Central North Sea

Matthew Dack, formerly CGG, and Gregor Duval, CGG

July 18, 2021

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…

Discovery Energy Use an AI-based Digital Twin to Execute their Latest Drilling and Development Strategy

Hugo Garcia, Senior Geoscientist; Geoteric

June 21, 2021

Operators are turning towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) to better understand geological systems, improve safety, and maximise investment and return in oil and gas exploration. In the fight to understand geological…

Offshore Colombia: discovering new value in legacy data using modern workflows

Kyle Reuber, Antara Goswami, Darren Judd and Shihong Chi; ION

June 19, 2021

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

Jeroen Hoogeveen, Geoex MCG; Kristen Berli, Seismic Partner; Lars Ivar Leivestad, Geoex MCG and Tor Åkermoen, Geoex MCG

June 19, 2021

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

Cyrille Reiser and Eric Mueller; PGS

June 18, 2021

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

Duncan Bate and Mike Perz; TGS

June 18, 2021

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

Will Bradbury, Alex Kurobasa and Bent Kjølhamar; TGS

May 18, 2021

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

Paul Bellingham, Will Reid, Emily Kay and Neil Hurst; ION Geophysical

May 18, 2021

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

Jarrad Grahame, Keat Huat Teng and Iain Burnie; CGG

March 18, 2021

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…

Shaping the Future of Seismic Interpretation: View and Do

Bill Shea, Stephane Perrier and Joe Zuech, Sharp Reflections

December 11, 2020

PreStack Pro, Sharp Reflection’s unified approach to pre-stack data analysis, combines data processing, visualisation and interpretation in a single platform to greatly improve workflow efficiency and the accuracy of subsequent…

Buscador: The ‘Searcher-Engine for Oil’ in Mexico’s hottest hotspot

Karyna Rodriguez and Neil Hodgson, Geoscience Team; Searcher

December 6, 2020

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

Scott Opdyke, Cyrille Reiser, Tiago Alcantara and Elena Polyaeva; PGS

December 5, 2020

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…

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