Seismic surveying

Sercel Delivers Five 508XT Acquisition Sysems to ONGC in India

Submitted by Editorial on Tue, 2019-05-28 08:40

28th May 2019

Sercel announced today the successful delivery of five of its state-of-the-art 508XT seismic acquisition systems to India’s national oil company, ONGC.

CGG 2D Survey Offshore Gabon Completed

Submitted by Editorial on Wed, 2019-04-10 09:15

10th April 2019

Acquisition of CGG’s 9,800 km long-offset broadband 2D multi-client seismic survey in the highly prospective Gabon South Basin has been completed.

Sercel Extends Boundaries of Well Exploration with SigmaWave, its First DAS Seismic Solution

Submitted by Editorial on Wed, 2019-03-20 09:26

20th March 2019

CGG announced today that Sercel has launched its first distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) seismic solution: SigmaWave.

Sercel optimises Vibroseis productivity

Submitted by Editorial on Tue, 2019-03-19 09:27

19th March 2019

CGG announces the launch by Sercel of the world’s first Vibrator Auto-Guidance solution, designed to increase vibroseis productivity by up to 10%.

'Phantom' volcanoes discovery signals new hope for North Sea oil and gas exploration

Submitted by Editorial on Tue, 2019-02-19 11:15

19th February 2019

Geologists at the University of Aberdeen have discovered a huge swathe of the North Sea left unexplored for oil and gas because of so-called 'phantom' volcanoes they have proven don't exist.

New CGG Survey Supports Gabon’s 12th Offshore Licensing Round

Submitted by Editorial on Tue, 2019-01-22 09:10

22nd January 2019

Building on the success of its 25,000 km2 3D BroadSeis™ survey, which led to the recent Boudji-1 and Ivela-1 oil discoveries, CGG is extending its Gabon multi-client data footprint with a 9,800-km long-offset 2D seismic survey in an unexplored deepwater area of the South Basin.

CGG Continues to Expand Anadarko Basin Library with New SCOOP/STACK Survey

Submitted by Editorial on Tue, 2019-01-15 10:27

15th January 2019

CGG has commenced acquisition of a new high-density 3D survey in the Anadarko Basin. With the tightest acquisition parameters of any survey in CGG’s Oklahoma data library, the 306-square-mile Chickasha Extension builds on and enhances CGG’s extensive existing coverage totaling more than 1,200 square miles over the SCOOP/STACK play.

Sercel sells a 100,000 channel 508XT land seismic acquisition system to BGP

Submitted by Editorial on Thu, 2018-12-13 09:11

13th December 2018

Sercel has been awarded a contract by BGP to supply land seismic equipment for a large onshore 3D seismic survey in the Middle East.

Fresh exploration potential in offshore Argentina highlighted in new study

Submitted by Editorial on Thu, 2018-11-15 09:02

15th November 2018

Explorers interested in Argentina’s upcoming offshore bid round will benefit from a new geological study which constrains the timing and structural context for Triassic to Early Cretaceous basin development prior to and during continental rifting of the South Atlantic Ocean.

Fast-Track PSTM Data from CGG’s Mozambique Multi-Client Survey Now Available

Submitted by Editorial on Thu, 2018-11-08 08:43

08th November 2018

CGG announced during Africa Oil Week that the fast-track 3D seismic data from its recent Mozambique multi-client survey in the outer Zambezi Delta Basin is now available for license. Interested international oil companies with an Africa focus can view the high-end data set in CGG data rooms in anticipation of the country’s 2019 licensing round.