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The 3D seismic acquisition survey, carried out by LUKOIL Overseas, LUKOIL’s subsidiary, is underway on East Rapsodia and Trident blocks in the Romanian Sector of the Black Sea. Seismic operations are being carried out by geophysical services provider CGGVeritas, after it won the respective tender, and will be completed in November 2012. The planned scope of the survey will be up to 2,000 square kilometers. Therefore for the first time in its history LUKOIL has begun upstream operations in a European Union member country. Read more...

Rosneft has begun exploration work at the East Prinovozemelsky 1 and 2 license blocks in the Kara Sea. Geological surveying has been started one year ahead of the license schedule. Work will run through October 2012. RN Shelf Far East, a Rosneft subsidiary, will carry out the work. 3D seismic on an area of 3,000 square kilometres will be carried out at the East Prinovozemelsky 1 block. Three vessels will survey the area: Western Trident, capable of carrying up to 12 seismic cables, will carry out seismic, with support from 2 Russian vessels – Neftegaz 61 (bathymetric survey of the seabed) and Kapitan Kosolapov. The contractor is Dalmorneftegeophysica, a leader in the Russian marine seismic industry. Advanced technologies from WesternGeco, a global leader in marine seismic, will be used in the surveys. Read more...

CGGVeritas announced the signature of a framework agreement with JSC SEVMORNEFTEGEOFIZIKA (SMNG) to form a strategic alliance. Together, CGGVeritas and SMNG intend to jointly address the growing Russian and CIS high-end seismic vessels market and coordinate their complementary capacities worldwide. Read more...

Companies

BGP - www.bgp.com.cn

CGG - www.cgg.com

Dolphin Geophysical - www.dolphingeo.com

EGS Group - www.egssurvey.com

EMGS - www.emgs.com

FairfieldNodal

FUGRO - www.fugro.com

Gardline - www.gardlinemarinesciences.com

GC RIEBER - www.gcrieber.com

Global Geophysical Services - www.globalgeophysical.com

ION Geophysical - www.iongeo.com

iSurvey - www.isurvey-group.com

MagSeis - www.magseis.no

MultiClient Geophysical - www.mcgeophysical.no

MMT - www.mmt.se

Nordic Maritime - www.nordic.com.sg

Norfield - www.norfield.no

PGS - www.pgs.com

Polarcus - www.polarcus.com

ReflectGeo - www.reflectgeo.com

RXT - www.rxt.com

SeaBird Exploration - www.sbexp.com

Searcher Seismic - www.searcherseismic.com

Spectrum ASA - www.spectrumasa.com

TGS-NOPEC - www.tgsnopec.com

UTEC - www.utecsurvey.com

WesternGeco - www.westerngeco.com

WGP Group - www.wgpgroup.co.uk

Technology

EMGS and MultiClient Geophysical announced a unique, integrated study of 2D seismic and 3D EM. They have interpreted prospective areas based on the dense 2x4 km MC2D grid from MCG’ modern dataset. The interpretation of the seismic has been used to build a background model for the 3D anisotropic inversion of the available 3D EM data in the area. Read more...

Seabird: oil companies are now "massively interested" in frontier areas to drill for new oil and gas resources. Seabird Exploration says oil companies are now back in the proprietary 2D seismic market and the company says it is seeing increasing dayrates too. Recently the company has been developing an equivalent to wide azimuth technology in the 3D market, called ultra-long offset 2D using a 20 kilometre (12.4 mile) long cable for continuous data recording. These market trends have been identified by Seabird Exploration during a presentation to the Pareto Securities conference in Norway. Read more...

Equipment

Sercel’s complete portfolio of latest-generation marine seismic systems has been deployed on yet another high-end seismic vessel. Specifically designed to perform the full range of seismic functionalities from data acquisition through positioning to control, the systems portfolio is now being successfully deployed on the Oceanic Champion, a recently upgraded vessel in the CGGVeritas fleet.
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Schlumberger announced the launch of IsoMetrix marine isometric seismic technology and the IsoMetrix family of marine seismic products. This breakthrough technology outputs isometrically sampled point-receiver data in both crossline and inline directions-capturing the returning wavefield in three dimensions and providing the most accurate images of the subsurface ever recorded. The IsoMetrix system uses calibrated, multisensor MEMS technology that forms part of the new WesternGeco Nessie-6 point-receiver seismic streamer. The sensors measure acoustic pressure as well as vertical and crossline acceleration throughout the frequency range, and these measurements are provided as customer deliverables.
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ION Geophysical Corporation announced the launch of Calypso™, its next generation redeployable seabed acquisition system. Leveraging ION's industry-leading VectorSeis® digital sensors to deliver the same unrivaled broadband imaging, Calypso is designed to operate at twice the depth and to deliver twice the operational efficiency of its predecessor system, VectorSeis Ocean (VSO).
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PGS launched the full ghost-free GeoStreamer GSTM solution. GeoStreamer GS also removes all "source ghost" effects with a new source technology, GeoSourceTM. Unique PGS wavefield separation processing technology creates cascading opportunities to revolutionize seismic data processing, imaging and analysis, from the very first stage of data processing onwards.
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