Searcher Seismic has completed the regional multiclient airborne gravity, gravity-gradiometry and magnetics survey covering the transition zone of the Gulf of Papua, the company said on Feb. 13.
CGG and TGS announced on Feb. 11 the Greater Castberg TopSeis survey in the Barents Sea.
There will be no seismic exploration this winter on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the Interior Department said on Feb. 8, after the company seeking permission to conduct the tests ran out of time to get the required permit.
Recent advances in supercomputing and full waveform inversion technology are poised to transform resource estimates offshore.
British chemical manufacturer Ineos has called on the U.K. government to change its ‘unworkable’ rules on gas fracking which it says could force the closure of the industry.
Iraq has signed a contract with China’s CNOOC to conduct a seismic survey for two oil exploration blocks, the oil ministry said on Jan. 31.
System enables data conditioning and direct access to curve data.
Polarcus Ltd. said Jan. 24 that an award has been received for a 3-D marine seismic acquisition project offshore Mexico.
Judge Richard Gergel of the U.S. District Court in South Carolina issued the decision in response to a motion filed by a range of conservation and business groups and coastal cities opposed to the administration’s efforts to expand U.S. offshore drilling.
Guyana’s government will challenge in court a parliamentary no-confidence vote that toppled President David Granger’s ruling coalition amid a dispute over developing the country’s nascent oil industry, the country’s attorney general said on Jan. 3.
