Geological, Geophysical News
| Malaysia >> 8/30/2016 - Bell Geospace, the world leader in Gravity Gradiometry, together with Onyx Engineering, has been awarded a contract by multinational exploration business, Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS). |
| Ghana >> 8/2/2016 - Fugro has completed a 33-month period of metocean data acquisition for Hess Ghana Exploration Limited, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Hess Corporation and leading independent energy company th... |
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Kenya >> 6/20/2016 - CGG GeoConsulting’s NPA Satellite Mapping group has launched the multi-client EARS BasinMap for exploration de-risking across the vast region of East Africa, from regional-to-prospect or play scale. T... |
| Norway >> 3/22/2016 - Polarcus Limited (Polarcus) is pleased to announce the purchase of a complete marine seismic in-sea acquisition system from Dolphin Geophysical AS (the "Streamer Package"), for a price of USD 11.5 mil... |
| Russia >> 3/10/2016 - Following full refurbishment and re-equipment, the Gazprom Neft Drilling Support Centre (part of the company’s Joint Scientific and Research Centre and responsible for round-the-clock monitoring of th... |
| Seychelles >> 3/1/2016 - JOGMEC has been conducting geological and geophysical surveys including seismic surveys with PetroSeychelles since August 30, 2013 under the Exploration License granted by the Government of Seychelle... |
| Sri Lanka >> 2/24/2016 - Marking a historic milestone in the oil and gas exploration in Sri Lanka, Hon. Chandima Weerakkody, Minister of Petroleum Resources Development, on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka signed a Joint... |
| Norway >> 1/19/2016 - Searcher Seismic is pleased to announce Phase 2 of the Silver-Eye Broadband 3D survey in the Barents Sea, Norway. Following the successful acquisition of Phase 1; comprising 2,663 square kilometres, S... |
| France >> 1/13/2016 - CGG announced on 5 November 2015 the implementation of a new step of its Transformation Plan, aiming at transforming CGG from a seismic acquisition company into an integrated geosciences group. To fun... |
| Netherlands/Holland >> 1/8/2016 - Fugro has entered into a sale and lease back agreement regarding its geotechnical vessels Fugro Scout and Fugro Voyager. The agreement has been established with ICON Investments for an initial lease t... |
| France >> 1/5/2016 - CGG GeoConsulting announced that Robertson has made a number of major upgrades to its Tellus™ and Frogi global exploration databases. ... |
| Djibouti >> 1/4/2016 - Oyster Oil and Gas Ltd. (Oyster) had commenced an airborne survey in the Republic of Djibouti. The survey is being conducted by Bridgeporth Holdings Ltd, a UK based specialist geophysical contractor. ... |
| United Kingdom >> 12/16/2015 - The UK processing and multi-client operations of Dolphin Geophysical Ltd continue to operate as normal, despite the Norwegian entities of Dolphin Group ASA together with its subsidiary Dolphin Geophys... |
| United States >> 12/4/2015 - Due to an amendment to IAS 38 Intangible assets, the amortization method for the seismic multi-client libraries will have to change with effect from 1 January 2016. After an extensive process involvin... |
| Australia >> 12/2/2015 - Polarcus recently completed its first commercial project offshore Australia utilizing the revolutionary XArray(TM) in a five source configuration known as Penta source. With XArray(TM) Penta source we... |
| United States >> 10/23/2015 - TGS's Geological Products division purchased all the outstanding shares of Digital Petrodata LLC. Digital Petrodata, established in 2005, is a small GIS technology company based in Denver that provide... |
| Malaysia >> 10/21/2015 - Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has signed a contract extension worth approximately USD 7 million with an oil company in Malaysia. ... |
| Mexico >> 10/6/2015 - Fugro (Mexico) in conjunction with long-time associates, Diavaz, has been awarded an extension of the ongoing offshore geophysical and geotechnical campaign by the Mexican national oil company, PEMEX.... |
| Ghana >> 10/5/2015 - Erin Energy Corporation (Erin Energy) announced that the resource volume assessment of the three previously discovered fields (Tano North, Tano West, and Tano South) has been completed in the Expanded... |
| Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) >> 9/18/2015 - TGS and the African Petroleum Producers' Association (APPA) have signed a Letter of Intent to harmonize the stratigraphic nomenclature of the sedimentary basins of 13 countries in Africa. The results ... |
