North Sea & Europe Geology & Geophysics News

Envoi Ltd. is seeking a drilling partner for First Australian Resources’ deepwater exploration license offshore Senegal.

Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has won a $1-million contract to provide marine EM services for EnQuest.

Ireland has unveiled a new corroboration exercise involving research institutes in Ireland and Newfoundland-Labrador and private enterprise that aims to further interest in frontier offshore exploration.

TGS has started work on a 1,650-sq km (637-sq mi) high density multi-client 3D seismic survey in the outer Moray Firth off northeast Scotland.

Polarcus has received a letter of intent from OMV (Norge) for a 3D seismic acquisition project in the Norwegian Barents Sea.

Electromagnetic Geoservices has won a $150-million, multi-year contract to supply one of its purpose-built 3D electromagnetic survey vessels on a continuing basis to an operating company.

Petrobras has contracted PGS to install a permanent seismic monitoring system in the Jubarte field in the North Campos basin, offshore Brazil’s Espirito Santo province.

TGS is preparing another season of long-offset data acquisition offshore northwest Europe in collaboration with Fugro.

Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping plc (OHM) has won a $1 million-plus controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) survey contract for the North Sea from Bridge Energy UK.

BP Norge has contracted WGP and Thalassa Energy Services respectively to operate and procure/supply the seismic source equipment for the Valhall Life of Field Seismic (LoFS) project in the North Sea.

The BOS Arctic seismic vessel is scheduled to acquire 3D data for Euroil in Cameroon.

Stingray Geophysical and Ikon Science will develop new time-lapse technology and services together.

The WGP Group has won a third extension to its Chirag Azeri Reservoir Seismic Project (CARSP) Life of Field Seismic (LoFS) survey in the Azeri sector of the Caspian Sea.

A 3D seismic campaign offshore western Sicily using Petroleum GeoServices Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.’s Atlantic Explorer is complete according to Northern Petroleum Plc. The survey covered 1,520 sq km (587 sq mi) of four thrust belt licenses – G.R17.NP, G.R20.NP, G.R21.NP, and G.R22.NP – and was funded by Shell Italia E&P SpA under a farm-in agreement. The acquisition purpose is to get a better quality, more complete definition of drilling prospects on structures identified by earlier 2D surveys.

Cairn Energy and partner Santos have completed a 200-sq km (77-sq mi) 3D seismic survey over the Magnam discovery in the Bay of Bengal offshore Bangladesh.

Schllumberger has opened its expanded WesternGeco Oslo Technology Center in Norway.

Surestream Petroleum has contracted WGP Group for a feasibility study for a planned 2D seismic survey in Burundi’s section of Lake Tanganyika.

Chevron North Sea has contracted SeaBird Exploration Ltd to acquire a large-scale, ocean bottom node seismic survey West of Shetland in a water depth of 1,200 m (3,937 ft).

AuDAX Resources Ltd. says the interpretation of 3D seismic data from the Sicily Channel is compete and ahead of schedule.

Deep Casing Tools has completed the first offshore run of its new Turborunner reaming system in Petro-Canada’s Saxon field in the central North Sea. The tool was unveiled this week at the company’s booth at OTC.

Ocean Rig's Leiv Eiriksson drilling semi has successfully navigated the Bosphorus Strait on its way to an exploration program in the Turkish Black Sea.

TGS has started a 2,600-sq km (1,004-sq mi) 3D pre-stack depth migration (PSDM) project over the Hoop Fault Complex in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea.

PA Resources says it expects to complete a 3D seismic survey on its Zarat license offshore Tunisia in mid-June.

Statoil has signed a six-year, worldwide agreement to use ffA's Advanced Volume Interpretation software for 3D seismic analysis.