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UK to Account for 29% of Europe Working Gas Capacity Additions Through 2026
The UK is expected to lead the Europe’s planned and announced working gas capacity additions in underground gas storage sites, contributing approximately 29% of the total Europe capacity additions by 2026.

Shearwater GeoServices Awarded Large Petrobras Deepwater OBN survey.
Shearwater GeoServices has announced an award for a large deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) survey over the Petrobras-operated Grand Iara Project, involving the Berbigão, Sururu, and Shared Reservoir of Atapu, in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil.

CGG Licenses New GeoVerse™ Carbon Storage Multi-Client Study to TotalEnergies
CGG Earth Data is continuing to expand its new GeoVerse Carbon Storage database and screening studies.

Searcher Rectifies Sudan 2D as 3D Seismic Campaign Advances
Searcher has announced the Sudan 2D Rectified Seismic Dataset, in cooperation with the Sudan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum.

Shearwater Seals new Survey Award in Bonaparte Basin
Shearwater GeoServices and WesternGeco have signed a global agreement for seismic acquisition services and announced a new survey award in Australia.

Australia Licensing 2022, PGS declares, ‘We’ve Got You Covered in the Browse Basin’
PGS data has targeted key blocks for the 2022 Australian license round, which have now been officially released by the Government of Australia.

Schlumberger Teams up with Cognite to Optimise Reservoir and Wells Performance
Schlumberger and Cognite have announced a strategic partnership to integrate Schlumberger’s Enterprise Data Solution for subsurface with Cognite Data Fusion®, Cognite’s open industrial DataOps platform.

Sercel Completes Acquisition of ION’s Software Business
CGG has announced that Sercel, its Sensing & Monitoring division, has completed the acquisition of ION Geophysical Corporation’s (“ION”) software business.

Carpentaria Continues to Kick Goals for Empire in the Beetaloo
Empire Energy has announced that the Carpentaria-2H well in the Beetaloo Basin has continued to deliver strong flow rates with the added bonus of low CO₂ composition.
