Seismic (public)

Shearwater GeoServices has announced the award of an ocean bottom seismic (OBS) 4D survey by Aker BP at the Ivar Aasen field in the Norwegian North Sea.

“This is a welcome return to the Ivar Aasen field for Aker BP with Qseabed,” said Irene Waage Basili, CEO of Shearwater GeoServices.

“Shearwater is established in all segments of high-end offshore seismic, executing our clients’ projects with the technologies of their choice, including market leading solutions for ocean bottom seismic.”

The survey will commence in Q2 2021 and will employ Shearwater’s multi-purpose vessels the SW Cook and SW Tasman, using proprietary technology.

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Sercel has significantly increased the market position of its 508XT land seismic acquisition system in India.

The system is currently being deployed by over 30 crews, representing a total of over 110,000 508XT channels countrywide and making it clearly the system of choice in India.

Sercel said that based on its cutting-edge and unique cross-technology (X-Tech®) architecture, the 508XT land seismic acquisition system enables automatic data re-routing and local storage for seamless and uninterrupted operations with a highly flexible and robust system that adapts to the toughest terrain and weather conditions and meets all 2D/3D land seismic project requirements.

Ashutosh Kumar, CEO, Asian Energy, said: “By choosing Sercel’s 508XT, we have ensured we are using the best technology to meet our final customers’ expectations. We ha

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The Norwegian surveyor said the survey provided the first 3D seismic for Brazil’s 17th Round, scheduled for October 2021 with fast-track anisotropic PSDM products for the additional acreage set to be available in July.

The Ramform Titan began towing the largest spread ever offshore Brazil in June 2020 and returned to Campos in December. The acquisition configuration, with 14 streamers each 10 km long, is “tailored to the challenges of the Campos area”.

The vessel and its “exceptional equipment spread” maximize subsurface illumination and minimize environmental impact, acquiring the targeted coverage faster.

PGS said Ramform Titan will continue in the area on the “next phase of this exciting Multiclient program, which will deliver multi-azimuth illumination (MAZ) of presalt targets.

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Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS has announced the award of a marine seismic 3D survey in South East Asia.

Shearwater did not give any details of the precise survey location, or the schedule, but said the two-month project would commence in the second quarter of 2021, covering approximately 1,500 sqkm.

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Multi-Client Resources (MCR), in collaboration with DUG, has commenced a very large 3D seismic reprocessing project over the hydrocarbon prolific Northern Carnarvon Basin, Northwest Shelf, Australia.

The Barrow-Exmouth “BEX” Multi-Client 3D Project incorporates 23 legacy 3D surveys, reprocessed using DUG’s advanced Broadband, least-squares anisotropic PreSDM and high frequency FWI imaging technology to produce one seamless 26,400 square kilometer 3D seismic dataset over the major gas producing fairways of the Barrow Sub-basin and Exmouth Plateau.

The BEX MC3D survey covers large tracts of high impact Petroleum Acreage Release areas, field development and production acreage.

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Aligned with the company’s longstanding commitment to act responsibly and minimize the impact of its activities on the environment, in every sector of its business, CGG has announced its pledge to become carbon neutral by 2050 in scopes 1 & 2 of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol.

CGG said that company-wide efforts are focused on continuing to improve the power usage efficiency of its data centers, offices and factories, along with increasing the share of sustainable energy in its energy supply mix, mainly through the energy purchased from utility providers.  

To reach this long-term target, CGG has also set itself an intermediary milestone to reduce by half its 2019 levels of scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions by 2030.

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Searcher has launched new data layers functionality on its on-demand seismic web platform, sAIsmic, from Searcher’s partnerships with MapStand and NVentures.

The new MapStand and NVentures layers functionality on sAIsmic with an info tab that allows users to view blocks, wells and field information, anywhere in the world, providing valuable location context for sAIsmic users.

“We are very excited to have launched this latest functionality on sAIsmic through the partnerships with MapStand and NVentures which highly complement the on-demand platform,” Alan Hopping, VP at Searcher stated.

“Continually developing, adding functionality and new data to the sAIsmic platform is Searcher’s primary focus to assist in advancing our clients exploration efforts.

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Searcher has announced a new onshore Peru Campaign, in collaboration with PeruPetro S.A. 2D & 3D Seismic Rectification and a Well Atlas including post-drill analysis to provide a renewed and enhanced dataset to support future bid rounds, regional evaluations and due diligence of existing commercial opportunities.

The Onshore Peru 2D & 3D Rectification consists of both 2D and 3D vintage seismic data which has been rectified with Searcher’s proprietary post-stack reprocessing method. The post-stack reprocessing rectifies navigation, metadata, amplitude, phase and time to create a contiguous database that can be easily loaded into any interpretation software.

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Shearwater GeoServices has announced the award of a 3D broadband marine seismic acquisition contract by ONGC in the Western Offshore India area. The project is scheduled to commence in Q1 2021.

The four-month campaign covers two areas totalling 2,800 sq. km in the Arabian Sea off the west coast of India. Shearwater plans to use the SW Duchess and SW Vespucci for the surveys.

“Shearwater has a strong, long-standing relationship with ONGC and adding this award to our 2021 backlog demonstrates our market leading position in Indian offshore geophysics, enabling us to maintain high activity in the region throughout 2020 and into 2021”, said Irene Waage Basili, the CEO of Shearwater GeoServices.

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Sercel has won a second major contract to supply land seismic equipment to a leading seismic acquisition contractor for a 3D mega-crew survey in Saudi Arabia.

It has also won a smaller contract to equip a 2D survey to be conducted by the same contractor. These two new contracts closely follow the recently announced award to Sercel of a similar large-scale contract to equip a separate Saudi 3D mega-crew survey.

The new 3D contract includes a Sercel 508XT seismic acquisition system of over 60,000 channels equipped with strings of SG-10 geophones, and a fleet of over 30 Nomad 65 Neo all-terrain vibrator trucks with a full VE464 advanced vibrator electronics package.

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