Fugro has been awarded a contract by BG International Ltd. Sucursal Honduras to conduct an integrated multibeam echosounder (MBES) survey and seabed coring campaign over its offshore acreage (block) in the Honduran Caribbean, a news release said.
As part of BG’s exploration license commitments, the campaign will map the seafloor to interpret, identify, sample and analyze potential hydrocarbon seeps. Fugro’s 65-m survey vessel, MV Fugro Brasilis, commenced the two-month mapping and interpretation portion in July 2015, the release said.
The MBES and seabed coring program will cover an area of the Patuca Basin in excess of 10,000 sq km in the northern part of the block. Features of interest will be identified and evaluated during the MBES survey to generate a final set of locations to target for precision geochemical sampling. The coring phase will follow to collect approximately 200 seabed cores and 15 heat flow measurements.
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