The Australian Department of Resources, Energy, and Tourism has released an amendment to the 2009 Acreage Release areas S09-2 and S09-3.

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.

Polarcus has contracted Veripos a master services contract for high-precision positioning services and equipment. Polarcus says the contract covers all four of its vessels.

Spectrum has agreed to reprocess 12,240 line km (7,606 mi) of 2D seismic data from the Trinidad and Tobago Deep Atlantic Area survey east of the islands.

The deepwater Gulf of Mexico remains a promising g exploration venue, according to Carl Scharpf, Gulf Coast Exploration & New Ventures manager for Apache Corp.

First Australian Resources says its exploration program offshore Guinea Bissau, northwest Africa, is under way.

Paradigm and Petrosys have agreed to develop connectors to integrate Paradigm's Epos repository data with Petrosys' mapping solutions.

Bengal Energy says it is progressing exploration and drilling of its prospects offshore India.

Enigma Oil & Gas Exploration has won approval from Namibia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy to continue its exploration program on three offshore blocks.

Gazprom Group Co. has signed a multi-year software license agreement with Paradigm.

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.

The Petroleum Geo-Services’ Ramform Challenger has left Conakry to shoot a 3D seismic program for Hyperdynamics Corp.

Seismic exploration offshore Alaska in the Chukchi Sea can proceed following a federal judge’s ruling that it does not fall under the offshore drilling ban.

Oil Search is stepping up its exploration activity in the Gulf of Papua, recently completing the first stage of an offshore 3D seismic survey.

ION Geophysical Corp. has contracted to outfit China’s BGP Inc.’s new 12-streamer 3D seismic vessel the Prospector with a DigiSTREAMER acquisition system.