Exploration

CGG 2D Survey Offshore Gabon Completed

Submitted by Editorial staff on 10th April 2019

10th April 2019

Acquisition of CGG’s 9,800 km long-offset broadband 2D multi-client seismic survey in the highly prospective Gabon South Basin has been completed.

Siccar Point Energy spuds Blackrock Exploration Well

Submitted by Editorial staff on 19th March 2019

19th March 2019

Siccar Point Energy has commenced its 2019 drilling campaign with the spudding of an exploration well at the Blackrock prospect.

Sercel optimises Vibroseis productivity

Submitted by Editorial staff on 19th March 2019

19th March 2019

CGG announces the launch by Sercel of the world’s first Vibrator Auto-Guidance solution, designed to increase vibroseis productivity by up to 10%.

ExxonMobil Makes Natural Gas Discovery Offshore Cyprus

Submitted by Editorial staff on 28th February 2019

28th February 2019

ExxonMobil today said it has made a natural gas discovery offshore Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean at the Glaucus-1 well.

'Phantom' volcanoes discovery signals new hope for North Sea oil and gas exploration

Submitted by Editorial staff on 19th February 2019

19th February 2019

Geologists at the University of Aberdeen have discovered a huge swathe of the North Sea left unexplored for oil and gas because of so-called 'phantom' volcanoes they have proven don't exist.

DEA awarded new licence in the Onshore Nile Delta

Submitted by Editorial staff on 12th February 2019

12th February 2019

German upstream company is back to exploration in Egypt. DEA is planning to drill 5 to 7 exploration wells in Block 10 during the first exploration phase of 3 years.

CNOOC Limited Announced a New Discovery in UK North Sea

Submitted by Editorial staff on 29th January 2019

29th January 2019

New CGG Survey Supports Gabon’s 12th Offshore Licensing Round

Submitted by Editorial staff on 22nd January 2019

22nd January 2019

Building on the success of its 25,000 km2 3D BroadSeis™ survey, which led to the recent Boudji-1 and Ivela-1 oil discoveries, CGG is extending its Gabon multi-client data footprint with a 9,800-km long-offset 2D seismic survey in an unexplored deepwater area of the South Basin.

Drilling to start soon at Colter well (Wessex Basin UK)

Submitted by Editorial staff on 15th January 2019

15th January 2019

Andalas Energy and Power shine as the best leverage play for investors.

CGG Continues to Expand Anadarko Basin Library with New SCOOP/STACK Survey

Submitted by Editorial staff on 15th January 2019

15th January 2019

CGG has commenced acquisition of a new high-density 3D survey in the Anadarko Basin. With the tightest acquisition parameters of any survey in CGG’s Oklahoma data library, the 306-square-mile Chickasha Extension builds on and enhances CGG’s extensive existing coverage totaling more than 1,200 square miles over the SCOOP/STACK play.