A consortium led by CGG has been selected by the European Space Agency’s Space Solutions initiative to undertake a study aimed at developing new environmental monitoring technology and services to help combat the global marine litter crisis.
CGG will collaborate with Mott MacDonald, a global engineering, management and development consultancy, and Brunel University London to develop innovative new environmental monitoring solutions based on CGG’s analysis and processing of Earth...
Shearwater has been awarded a 3D seismic survey by a major operator in Vietnam. The two-and-a-half-month project will commence in April 2021 and will be conducted by the SW Vespucci.
“This award contributes to an already strong portfolio of projects in the Asia Pacific region announced in recent weeks as market conditions improve”, said Irene Waage Basili, CEO of Shearwater GeoServices.
The marine geophysical services company has established experience in Vietnam and has...
PGS has been awarded a high-fidelity 3D exploration program by a supermajor offshore Egypt.
The survey will be acquired using an Extended Long Offset (ELO) configuration with Ramform Tethys towing a wide multi-sensor GeoStreamer spread with an additional source vessel located several kilometers ahead.
CGG said that this would enable efficient recording of offsets up to 16km, which is critical for imaging deeper complex exploration targets. The source vessel will be towing a specially...
CGG has been awarded three major seismic imaging projects by BP, two in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and one offshore Trinidad & Tobago.
These projects will start in Q1/Q2 this year and complete with cloud delivery of the data no later than Q4 of 2021.
CGG said that, “utilizing CGG Cloud supercomputing, imaging specialists at CGG’s Houston subsurface imaging center will employ compute-intensive data-driven proprietary algorithms, such as time-lag full-waveform inversion and...
Lukoil has abandoned takeover plans for Australia’s FAR Limited and thus exited its ambitions to participate in the Woodside-operated Sangomar project offshore Senegal.
The Russian company had offered FAR 2.2c per share in February after it had failed to become a participant in the RSSD project via the acquisition of Cairn Energy’s stake in the discovery -- which was scuppered by Woodside’s entry into the development.
FAR had sounded a note of caution over Lukoil’s proposal,...
Buru Energy is all set for a significant exploration program in the Canning Basin targeting 97 million barrels of oil which will entail exploration wells at Kurrajong and Rafael and ongoing development of the Ungani Oilfield.
The company announced that the contract for seismic as well as a three well drilling program is expected to be awarded within weeks.
Mineral Resources has been awarded two highly prospective gas exploration permits in the Perth and Northern Carnarvon Basins.
The award is a boost to MRL’s strategy to secure its own natural gas supply to provide energy security for current and future MRL mining operations at lower-cost and with lower emissions to replace diesel use across the business.
MRL said it has committed to achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2050 and is presently developing the roadmap to achieve this target to...
Sercel and Kappa Offshore Solutions have announced the release of PIKSEL, a compact marine seismic solution specially designed for acquiring seismic data for high-resolution 3D imaging of targeted offshore areas.
PIKSEP, capitalizing on Sercel’s Sentinel® streamer technology, recognized for its robustness and accurate measurement capabilities, and Kappa Offshore Solutions’ expertise in equipment integration and hydrodynamic modeling, can acquire high- and ultra-high-precision...
Searcher has launched a mining edition of GeoClerk.
The company described GeoClerk as “an advanced geo-imagery search engine that intelligently extracts imagery and surrounding data from all types of unstructured documents, and then utilizes machine learning to classify them into geologically relevant categories.”
“The intuitive, web-based interface enables simple and complex querying to provide images in categories such as maps, core photos, imagery, cross-sections and tables,...
Blue Energy and Origin sign new long term gas supply deal
Blue Energy Limited has announced that it has executed a non-binding Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Origin Energy Limited for the supply of up 300 PJ of gas at Wallumbilla over 10 years from Blue Energy’s Northern Bowen Basin ATP814 coal seam gas tenure.
This is the second such HOA executed by Blue Energy which facilitates North Bowen Basin gas to be delivered into the main East Coast domestic market to the south from...