Viridien

Viridien (formerly CGG) is an advanced technology, digital and Earth data company.

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The company provides data, products, services and solutions in Earth science, data science, sensing and monitoring.

CGG rebranded and changed its corporate name to Viridien in June 2024.

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CGG announced the first multi-client ocean bottom node 3D survey in the Gulf of Mexico–Herschel field in the Mississippi Canyon.
Dec. 1, 2021

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The map illustrates the total coverage of phases 1 and 2 of Viridien’s Gulf of Mexico Carbon Storage Screening Study.
Viridien has completed Phase 2 of the GeoVerse Carbon Storage Screening Study of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM).
Aug. 28, 2024
Image courtesy of Viridien Earth Data; Block and operator data sourced from Wood Mackenzie Lens Upstream © 2024
The map displays the location of Viridien’s new Laconia 3D OBN survey.
Viridien has started the Laconia 3D ocean-bottom node (OBN) multi-client seismic program in the US Gulf of Mexico.
Aug. 27, 2024
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The system is designed to protect FPSOs and other offshore facilities against a range of marine risks.
June 17, 2024
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The GPR300 was designed to excel in shallow-water depths down to 300 m.
Viridien (formerly CGG) has sold and delivered a GPR300 ocean-bottom node (OBN) for about $20 million.
June 12, 2024
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CGG (rebranding soon as Viridien) has started two new multiclient 3D imaging programs offshore Côte d’Ivoire.
May 16, 2024
Courtesy CGG's "Technologies & Solutions Providing unique perspectives on our planet" presentation
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After shareholder approval at CGG's annual general meeting on May 15, it has changed its corporate company name to Viridien.
May 16, 2024
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An example geological map was generated in 2021 from a study to help find the sweet spots for CO2 storage sites.
CGG and Baker Hughes have signed a memorandum of understanding to investigate collaborative solutions for carbon capture and storage (CCS).
May 8, 2024
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PIKSEL is Sercel's high-resolution 3D marine seismic technology.
CGG geoscience expert identifies multiple uses for offshore seismic and surveying services
April 12, 2024
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Overview of basins covered by the Southeast Asia Carbon Storage Study and snapshot of storage play segmentation
CGG has issued its Southeast Asia Carbon Storage Study, an addition to its expanding Geoverse carbon storage portfolio that includes studies for the North Sea and the US Gulf ...
Feb. 20, 2024
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CGG's research suggests there could be vast geothermal resources along the magmatically active ocean floor-spreading centers and adjacent flooded rift systems in all the world...
Feb. 13, 2024

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OMEGA Merge OBN dataset
A consortium of TGS, Axxis Multi-client and Viridien have completed final imaging of the OMEGA Merge dataset in the Norwegian North Sea.
July 15, 2025
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Laconia III map of seismic coverage.
This latest phase in the large-scale Laconia ocean-bottom node (OBN) survey program spans about 150 Outer Continental Shelf blocks in the Gulf of Mexico.
June 26, 2025
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Viridien offshore logistics
Viridien (formerly CGG) has announced a sale of its Sercel Marlin offshore logistics management technology to ONGC, with the aims of enhancing operational efficiency and safety...
May 8, 2025
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Sercel's new TPS marine seismic source
Sercel is deploying its Tuned Pulse Source for an unnamed geophysical contractor in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM).
Dec. 20, 2024
Courtesy Viridien and TGS
Viridien and TGS Complete Sleipner Ocean Bottom Node Survey
Viridien and TGS have delivered final processed data from their multi-client Sleipner Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) project in the Norwegian North Sea.
Dec. 13, 2024
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Post-Selat Melaka 2D image
Viridien has completed seismic imaging for the Selat Melaka multi-client 2D seismic project over the offshore area of the Langkasuka Basin in Malaysia.
Dec. 11, 2024
Courtesy Geoscience Australia
Bonaparte Basin map
Viridien and SLB have concluded acquisition of a new 3D multiclient seismic survey in the Bonaparte Basin offshore Australia’s northwest coast.
Oct. 24, 2024
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Viridien multispectral processing
Viridien says that it will help Oman identify, map and rank mineralization prospectivity potential across seven concessions.
Sept. 19, 2024

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CGG has signed an agreement with Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries to re-image vintage 3D seismic data over blocks 25a, 25b, 26 and 27.
Jan. 24, 2024
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CGG and C-Questra have signed a commercial cooperation agreement covering carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS).
Jan. 9, 2024
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Holnsøy seascape in June 2023: HNET consortium members gather around a geophone station that is part of the HNAR onshore array monitoring the subsurface microseismic activity in the future CO2 storage area.
CGG has joined Phase 3 of the HNET Horda Platform Region project to monitor background seismicity at the Northern Lights CO2 storage project in the Norwegian North Sea.
Oct. 25, 2023
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CGG says its growing client base in a number of high-tech sectors, such as life sciences, will benefit from the new UK hub’s specialist computing capabilities through outcome-driven solutions.
CGG has opened its new UK High-Performance Computing hub in southeast England, with an initial capacity of 100 petaflops.
Oct. 19, 2023
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Snapshot of GeoVerse Carbon Storage Gulf of Mexico database coverage and single-factor screening map sample for one of the plays covered in the study area
CGG has completed the eastern phase of its GeoVerse carbon storage study over the Texas and Louisiana coasts.
Oct. 3, 2023
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CGG has started work on a new multiclient 3D PSDM reimaging project for the Tano Basin, in association with Direction Générale des Hydrocarbures and state oil company Petroci ...
Sept. 27, 2023
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CGG kickstarts a new 3D reimaging project in the highly prospective Foz do Amazonas Basin, covering several blocks included in the permanent offer, to be completed by year-end 2023.
CGG has started work on its new Foz do Amazonas 3D seismic reimaging project, designed to support Brazil’s Permanent Offer initiative in the Equatorial Margin.
Jan. 9, 2023
Courtesy Carbon Transition
Offshore Norway, the Utsira OBN multiclient library is located to the west of the Utsira High in the Norwegian North Sea and covers an area of about 2,000 sq km of highly prospective acreage with high-definition 3D seismic OBN data, according to Carbon Transition.
CGG has an agreement with Carbon Transition subsidiary Axxis Multi Client to reprocess the Utsira ocean-bottom node (OBN) seismic survey in the Norwegian North Sea.
Dec. 14, 2022
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Schematic figure depicting seasonal ‘green’ hydrogen energy storage. ‘Green’ hydrogen produced by excess renewable energy (e.g. wind and solar sources) can be stored in subsurface geological reservoirs for use at times of greater energy demand.
'Industry-leading' project will undertake research into the subsurface storage of hydrogen in depleted gas fields.
Sept. 16, 2022
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Cgg Windfarm
CGG says that it has been designated as a “special technical partner” in a research project led by Bangor University in North Wales.
Sept. 14, 2022
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Cgg Geo Wells Brazil
CGG has released a new GeoWells Brazil database, providing re-interpretation and digitalization of legacy geological and engineering data from 197 wells offshore Brazil.
July 12, 2022
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CGG will perform 3D seismic imaging for the first OBN survey ever in the Nile Delta offshore Egypt for bp and partner Pharaonic Petroleum Co.
July 5, 2022
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Computer graphic of the type of tidal stream turbines on the seabed for which CGG will design and test new environmental monitoring technology in partnership with the Selkie project.
CGG has partnered with the Selkie project, a new €5.2m cross-border initiative off Wales and Ireland.
March 24, 2022
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Vessel pollution in the Red Sea captured by the ESA Sentinel-1 satellite (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2021]).
CGG has introduced SeaScope, a pollution monitoring solution for offshore environments.
Aug. 1, 2021