Archives for November 2020

PTTEP Malaysia

CGG awarded large offshore Malaysia seismic processing contract

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Subsurface Imaging, part of CGG’s Geoscience division, has been awarded two large-scale complex seismic reprocessing contracts by PTTEP.

CGG said that PTTEP was investing in the rejuvenation of pre-existing data sets from two regions offshore Malaysia by leveraging CGG’s recognized high-end imaging technology and long-standing processing experience in SE Asia.

Over the course of the next year, CGG, through its offices in Kuala Lumpur, will conduct merged reprocessing of surveys from many vintages, including towed-streamer and OBC seismic data from offshore Sabah and Sarawak. The…

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APPEA Conference

New APPEA Board Directors announced

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APPEA said it was delighted to announce the re-election of Kevin Gallagher as Chairman and Ian Davies as Vice Chairman following APPEA’s recent Annual General Meeting.

Mr Gallagher, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Santos, continues in his second term as APPEA’s Chairman along. Mr Davies, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Senex Energy, who also continues for a second term as APPEA’s Vice Chairman.  Mr Gallagher and Mr Davies were first elected to these positions…

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Elixir Energy Mongolia

Elixir Energy intersects gas saturated coals in new sub-basin

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ASX-listed Elixir Energy has intersected 27 metres of coal in the Yangar 1S strat-hole well during continuing exploration of its Mongolian acreage.

The Yangar 1S strat-hole well is currently being drilled in a new sub-basin located some 24 kilometres to the West North West of Nomgon-1. To date 27 metres of coal have been intersected. As of Saturday morning, the well was at 347 metres.

Gas bubbles

The company’s well site geologist has observed very active gas bubbling from…

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Shearwater Empress

Shearwater awarded Senegal 3D acquisition and processing contract by Total

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Shearwater GeoServices has announced the award for a large towed streamer 3D acquisition and Fast Track processing project by Total E&P Senegal (“Total”).

The exploration survey covers 5,000km² in the UDO Block Exploration area, offshore Senegal. The data acquisition will be carried out by the SW Empress using an ultra-wide tow Flexisource configuration together with Fast Track processing enabled by Shearwater’s proprietary Reveal software.

Back to back bonus

“We are pleased to be awarded this contract by Total in…

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Searcher GeoClerk

Searcher announces partnership with NVentures on the GeoClerk platform

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Geoscience data service provider Searcher has entered into a strategic partnership with upstream explorer NVentures for hosting and integrating the NVentures competitor intelligence database on its advanced geo-imagery search engine - GeoClerk.

The partnership will provide users of GeoClerk with the ability to add the NVentures database onto their GeoClerk subscription. Searcher said that in doing so, users will be able to search for geo-imagery through GeoClerk’s open-file database and the NVentures database with the platform intelligently identifying and classifying images into relevant categories.

Geological…

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Karratha Gas Plant

New technologies will lead the way in Gas decarbonisation

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Energy Networks Australia (ENA) has welcomed the focus in the latest Grattan Institute report on renewable gas to help decarbonise Australia’s energy sector.

ENA Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Dillon said networks were already delivering projects to support the greening of our gas networks, including injecting renewable gas into networks.

As highlighted in the recent Gas Vision 2050 report, transformational technologies such as hydrogen, biomethane, carbon capture and storage and renewable methane can all support Australia’s decarbonisation.

Flame green

Sercel has announced the sale and delivery of a WiNG wireless land nodal seismic acquisition system to Paragon Geophysical Services.

Sercel announced that Paragon had selected its latest nodal technology to conduct high-production seismic surveys across the USA and to provide their clients with “the most accurate seismic acquisition data. This is achieved through the key advantages of WiNG’s System-Certified Data delivery and the proven high performance of Sercel’s QuietSeis® broadband digital sensor.”

Super seismic

John H. Beury III,…

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SA launches $240 million hydrogen project backed by $37 million upgrade to Port Bonython jetty

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South Australia’s intention to create a green hydrogen export industry has taken a big step forward, with the launch today of a world-leading $240 million hydrogen project. This project would be the largest green ammonia plant in the world, being 60 times larger than Australia’s largest electrolyser at Tonsley in Adelaide.

To support the export potential of South Australia, the Marshall Liberal Government is allocating $37 million in the upcoming 2020/21 State Budget, to upgrade the Port Bonython jetty as part of the state’s ambitious plans to become an exporter of…

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GECF Meeting

More than a quarter of 2050 natural gas supply untapped: GECF

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Natural gas is a viable energy option that contributes efficiently to achieve a balance between the environment, social, and economic dimensions of the sustainable development. It reduces carbon intensity and pollution resulting from energy-related activities, supports access to modern energy, improves availability and reliability of supply, and provides competitive and affordable energy,” the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) Secretary General recently said at the 25th Oil & Gas of Turkmenistan Conference.

Taking part in the annual event via videoconference, HE Yury Sentyurin added that the “yet-to-find resources” would contribute to around…

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Searcher South Africa

Searcher announces seismic project offshore South Africa

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Searcher has announced a new multi-client 2D and 3D seismic rectification project Offshore South Africa, in collaboration with the Petroleum Agency of South Africa.

The South Africa seismic data covers the Outeniqua Basin and its sub-Basins; the Bredasdorp, Infanta, Pletmos, Gamtoos, Algoa and Southern Outeniqua Basins.

Searcher said it has applied its proprietary post-stack reprocessing method to rectify navigation, metadata, amplitude, phase and time creating a contiguous database that can be easily loaded into any interpretation software.

Neil Hodgson,…

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