Seismic

Shearwater awarded carbon storage seismic survey contract in Australia

05/08/2026 Posted by Rachel

On 29 July, Shearwater Geoservices AS (“Shearwater”) announced they have been awarded a 3D seismic survey contract to support appraisal of the carbon storage potential in the Bonaparte Basin, Northern Australia.

The project is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2026 and will be executed by the SW Bly, with an expected duration of 50 days. The collected geophysical data will be used to high grade and define future injection well locations and serve as a baseline survey for possible future 4D seismic monitoring.

The survey is Shearwater’s second carbon capture and storage-related survey in the Bonaparte Basin following a similar campaign in 2024, reinforcing the company’s presence in the regional CCS market.

Seismic Data helps Unravel the History of the Euphrates River

12/07/2026 Posted by Rachel

The ancestral evolution of the Euphrates River system—a 3,000-kilometre fluvial network central to the development of early human civilization—has been the subject of geological debate. Competing paradigms have long clashed over its Late Neogene trajectory, variously positioning its terminal sink within endorheic Anatolian palaeo-lakes, the Mediterranean Sea, or across the arid expanses of the Arabian platform.

In the study published in June in Nature Geoscience, the authors, led by Dr Andrew Madof, leverage an extensive multi-disciplinary dataset to resolve this question.

PESA Exploration Activities Summary February 2026

07/03/2026 Posted by Rachel

An offshore exploration drilling program by ConocoPhillips / 3D Energi & Korea National Oil Corporation (VIC/P79) using the Transocean Equinox rig that began late 2025 has carried into early 2026.

Essington-1 (Nov 2025) discovered 58.5m of gas-condensate net pay in the Waarre A and 31.5m in the Waarre C.

Charlemont-1 was spudded on 10 December 2025. Gas shows were intersected in the Waarre A and Waarre C sands.

The Transocean Equinox rig was then utilised by Amplitude Energy to Drill Elanora-1 (Offshore Otway Basin, VIC/L24). No gas was present in the primary target interval (Waarre A reservoir).

A subsequent sidetrack tested the nearby Isabella prospect and encountered a gross 10.7m of gas bearing Waarre C.