The Society of Exploration Geophysicists annual meeting allows attendees to learn about specific technical advances and gain insight into the broad indications of how the business is doing, and what the general trends are.

Geomodeling Technology Corp. has released AttributeStudio 7.1 seismic attribute interpretation software.

Timed to come during the Society of Exploration Geophysicists annual meeting, Statoil has signed to fund $1 million per year for five years in an energy partnership agreement with the University of Texas.

TGS and PGS have started a new 22,000-km (13,670-mi) multi-client 2D survey offshore Newfoundland in the Labrador Sea.

TGS has started a 1,000 km (621 mi) multi-client 2D survey in northeast Greenland in partnership with Fugro.

TGS soon will start to acquire 42,000 km (26,097 mi) of magnetic, gravity, and oil seep data offshore southeast Greenland.

Cairn Energy is preparing for its second exploration drilling campaign offshore Greenland following last year’s three wells.

Sagres Energy has won a nine-month extension from the Petroleum Corp. of Jamaica (PCJ) for the initial exploration period of three offshore blocks.

The reprocessing of 7,357 km (4,571 mi) of 2D marine seismic data acquired in the 1980s off southeast Greenland is done, according to Spectrum and Petroleum Geo-Services.