TGS starts Indonesia surveys

Offshore staff

ASKER, Norway --TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. ASA has begun acquisition of geoscientific surveys over Indonesia's frontier basis. The survey will cover about 1 million km² (386,102 mi²) in 16 sedimentary basins, according to TGS.

The studies are scheduled to include the following:

33,000 km (20,505 mi) new 2D seismic data

419,000 km² (161,777 mi²) of Multibeam SeaSeep, gravity, and magnetic data

1,500 sediment cores

4,500 geochemical analyses

250 heat flow probes.

"This exciting new program will generate a huge amount of new data and ideas on Indonesian geology," said R. Pryono, director of Directorate General of Oil and Gas (MIGAS), a subdivision of the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. "I am confident that as a result we will be able to rewrite the geology of Indonesia."

01/02/2007