North Sea & Europe Geology & Geophysics News

Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has won a $3-million contract extension from a major oil company for a program in Asia.

A resource evaluation offshore Republic of Guinea by Netherland Sewell and Associates for Hyperdynamics Corp. gives a “best estimate” for all assessed prospects and leads of 2.3 Bbbl recoverable unrisked prospective oil resources.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has extended the deadline for comments on the proposed new geo-data reporting provisions until Oct. 4, 2010.

Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has won industry funding for a project to further the use of 3D electromagnetic data in exploration and production.

Polarcus has taken delivery of its third purpose-built 3D seismic vessel, the Polarcus Asima .

Tullow Oil expects to complete a new 3D seismic survey in its E quadrant acreage offshore the Netherlands next month.

Fugro has taken delivery on the seismic survey vessel M/V Geo Coral from Bergen Yards.

Emerson Process Management has added seismic visualization to the Roxar RMS program to improve decision-making and quality control.

San Leon Energy and partner Lundin Petroleum have completed a 300-sq km (116-sq mi) 3D seismic acquisition program over Slyne basin exploration license F4/06, offshore western Ireland.

Spectrum has re-processed 10,600 line km (6,586 mi) of new 2D seismic data taken off the Andaman Islands offshore eastern India.

CGGVeritas has launched what it says is the largest, most powerful X-Bow design seismic vessel.

Core handling specialist Kirk Petrophysics has won a storage contract to support BP’s drilling campaign in deepwater block 31 off Angola.

CGGVeritas has its new seismic vessel Oceanic Vega in hand now. The vessel is co-owned with Eidesvik . CGGVeritas says initially it will have 16 Sercel solid Sentinel streamers onboard, and that it has the capacity to tow up to 20 streamers. It features Nautilus acoustic positioning and streamer steering in an Ulstein SX120 design, ice-class vessel.

The prize of enlightening the reservoir using large-scale, high-fidelity, fiber-optics to provide timely, predictive information on reservoir performance is within our grasp. Fiber-optics revolutionized the telecommunications industry, enabled the World Wide Web, and can do the same for the instrumented oil field.

Halliburton has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the University of Aberdeen.

PetroMarker has contracted to acquire electromagnetic data for exploration company Concedo on the Norwegian continental shelf.

Polarcus says the second 3D seismic acquisition project for Gassnova has received budgetary approval.

PA Resources (PAR) has completed its first 2D seismic campaign in western Greenland’s offshore block 8, 10 days ahead of schedule.

Dana Petroleum expects to participate in a record 20 exploration and appraisal wells this year.

TGS has started a new multi-client 3D survey in partnership with PGS over the East Shetland basin, west of the UK’s maritime border with Norway.

Providence Resources has completed processing of 3D seismic acquired last summer over the Spanish Point gas/condensate discovery in Ireland’s offshore Porcupine basin.

TGS says a five-year charter for its 2D vessel M/V Northern Genesis has been terminated early.

TGS and PGS have started a new multi-client 3D survey in the Norwegian North Sea.

PEMEX has signed a multi-year contract with Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) for deepwater 3D electromagnetic surveys in the Mexican sector of the Gulf of Mexico.