CGG announced that its equipment business, Sercel, has delivered four of its new-generation 508XT land acquisition systems to two seismic companies recently awarded survey work in India by ONGC and Oil India, as part of a new national seismic program commissioned by the Indian government. The two Indian clients purchasing the 508XT are Advent, a new seismic company, and Alphageo, a long-standing player. Both companies will use the systems to conduct two surveys each in India.
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Seabird sets sail for South America
SeaBird Exploration has announced that it will provide one of its vessels for a 2D seismic project in South America. In a short statement, the marine seismic surveyor said it had signed an agreement to despatch the vessel for a 2D seismic survey which is expected to commence in late December, 2016 and will have a duration of approximately 45 days. The company said it would deploy the Northern Explorer for the project, but did not release further details.
PESA WA evening talks close for 2016 on a successful note
The last of the technical evenings talks was given by Anthony Gartrell, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, on November 24 at the Mantra Hotel. Anthony has over 20 years of experience as a petroleum geologist working for WMC, CSIRO and Shell Brunei and Australia offices before he became an independent consultant geologist in 2013. Anthony shared with the WA Branch members his views on “controls on sequence stratigraphic architecture using examples from NW Borneo and the NW Shelf”. It was a great turn up with 70 people attending the talk.
CGG delivers record survey offshore Morocco
CGG has announced what the company described as “near real-time imaging results” for a 4,200 sq km BroadSeis 3D marine seismic survey acquired offshore Morocco. CGG said it had delivered the “very-fast-track (VFT) RTM PSDM volume to the client only four days after the last shot”. The Paris-headquartered geoscience company said the result was a “technical feat (that) crowned an excellent operational performance by the crew of the CGG Geo Caspian who worked in a safe, collaborative and effective partnership with the client to complete the program ahead of schedule.
Senex announces Cooper Basin drilling program
The current drilling program will comprise a multi-well oil campaign including exploration, appraisal and development opportunities, and a high impact unconventional gas exploration well. The first two wells of the campaign are located on the producing Worrior and Spitfire fields. Worrior-11 (ex PEL 93: Senex 70% and operator, Cooper Energy 30%) is a development well targeting oil accumulations in the lower Birkhead and Hutton horizons. The well is due to be spudded in mid-December.
CGG delivers data sets for Gabon South Basin
CGG has released the final processed depth volumes (Kirchhoff and RTM PreSDM) from the company’s recent 3D BroadSeis™ multi-client survey in the highly prospective Gabon South Basin. As technical consultant to the Gabonese Republic’s Ministry of Petroleum and Hydrocarbons, CGG acquired the broadband seismic survey of over 25,000 km2 to support Gabon’s 11th Licensing Round. The seismic survey is part of an integrated geoscience program that will also include reviewed, resolved and interpreted well and geological data, in order to provide a petroleum systems evaluation supported by regional interpretations and reports.
Substantial reserves awaiting development – DW
MOST E&P companies have seen reserve replacement ratios declining as a consequence of a drop off in exploration and appraisal activity, energy intelligence group, Douglas-Westwood, said in a report.
The country that has bucked the trend is Myanmar, which has shaken off political and economic trade embargoes as a result of reform that saw the lifting of international sanctions in 2012. Shell, Eni and Chevron and a number of independents, notably Reliance Industries and Oil India, have been attracted to the country’s gas prospects, specifically in the Rakhine basin.
Woodside, after the discovery of the Thalin-1 well in February, has committed to an exploration program with four to seven drilling campaigns.
Senex completes pilot development in Western Surat Gas Project
SENEX Energy has announced completion of the first pilot development in the Western Surat Gas Project on budget and ahead of schedule. The Glenora pilot marks the commencement of the development of Senex’s Western Surat Gas Project, which involves the extraction of gas from coal seams across approximately 915 km2 of acreage located adjacent to gas fields and infrastructure operated by Australian majors Santos and Origin Energy. Senex is 100% owner and operator of the project and has signed a flexible 20-year gas sales agreement with key LNG counterparty Santos GLNG.
PESA students explore the Core
[caption id="attachment_51183" align="alignnone" width="350"] SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES[/caption] PESA WA organised the first student core workshop on the 21st of October 2016 at the DMP Core library, with the aim of providing the opportunity to PESA student members to view, learn, discuss and familiarise themselves with sequence stratigraphy and core logging, writes Marlene Woligroski. This event was planned and coordinated by students from Curtin University (Victoria Seesaha and Jordan McGlew) and University of Western Australia (Matus Kovac and David Hu), through the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Curtin Student Chapter and the PESA UWA Student Chapter.
ONGC innovation wins major international award
INDIA’s Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has surfaced as the star oil and gas performer at the Bentley Be Inspired Awards Ceremony in London, scooping the Innovation in Offshore award for enterprising software and performance modelling that enabled the production and exploration company to extend the lifecycle of its critically ageing assets.