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Blue Energy Drill rig

Blue skies brighten after Queensland North Bowen Basin gas-supply agreement

06/12/2020 by Dale Granger

Blue Energy shares surged over 57% after announcing a 10-year Queensland gas supply deal with Energy Australia.

The agreement is for annual deliveries of 10PJ and on the ASX BLU stock climbed to 8.8 cents on news of the deal, before settling at 8.2 cents at close on Friday.

Blue’s Managing Director, John Phillips, said: “This is the first such agreement that will allow North Bowen Basin gas to be delivered into the main East Coast domestic market to the south from...

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Katalyst data analytics

Katalyst Data Management releases Subsurface Data Search Engine for Oil and Gas Industry

06/12/2020 by Dale Granger

Katalyst Data Management has launched a new subsurface data search engine, powered by Elasticsearch, in the latest release of their iGlass data management solution.

The new release, named iGlass Portal ES, gives oil and gas companies the ability to use freestyle text searches on their seismic and well data volumes. This release marks the first time that Elasticsearch technology has been applied to an E&P subsurface data management solution.

Simple text search

Similar to search...

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CGG Processing Centre Oman

CGG wins three-year contract extension for Dedicated Processing Centre in Oman

01/12/2020 by Dale Granger

CGG has been awarded a three-year contract extension by Petroleum Development Oman to continue providing advanced land seismic imaging services at its dedicated processing centre in Muscat. The new contract will run from 1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024.

PDO operates a concession in Oman that covers almost one third of the country’s land surface area. This makes the DPC a critical proving ground for deploying new technology and workflows that can meet the highly variable imaging...

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PGS Ramform Hyperion

PGS launches ‘Scheme of Arrangement’ to implement financing transaction

01/12/2020 by Dale Granger

PGS has launched a scheme of arrangement in England via the issuance of a practice statement letter to the lenders under its ~$350 million revolving credit facility  and ~$522 million term loan B facility.

PGS said it was proposing the scheme in order to implement the financing transaction announced on October 21, 2020 as contemplated in the Lock-Up Agreement dated October 21, 2020. 

“As of the date of this announcement, lenders representing 95.4% by value of debt and 99.5% by...

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Shearwater Empress

Shearwater wins Petrobras OBN 4D baseline survey

01/12/2020 by Dale Granger

Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a large Ocean Bottom Node 4D Baseline survey over the Jubarte Field in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil.

Shearwater said it had positioned itself as a leading player in the deepwater OBN market, building on its established leading positions in the hybrid and shallow water ocean bottom seismic markets.

Shearwater CEO Irene Waage Basili said: “We welcome this contract awarded by Petrobras and look forward to supporting their continued...

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PTTEP Malaysia

CGG awarded large offshore Malaysia seismic processing contract

24/11/2020 by Dale Granger

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...

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Elixir Energy Mongolia

Elixir Energy intersects gas saturated coals in new sub-basin

24/11/2020 by Dale Granger

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 coals...

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Shearwater Empress

Shearwater awarded Senegal 3D acquisition and processing contract by Total

17/11/2020 by Dale Granger

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...

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Searcher GeoClerk

Searcher announces partnership with NVentures on the GeoClerk platform

17/11/2020 by Dale Granger

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...

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Sercel sells a WiNG land nodal acquisition system to Paragon Geophysical Services

17/11/2020 by Dale Granger

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®...

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