Geology & Geophysics
Article
April 2021
A machine learning workflow can quickly, and accurately, predict mineralogy, porosity and saturation in multiple wells to better understand productive layers in unconventional oil reservoirs.
Article
March 2021
A first-of-its-kind innovation in wellbore surveying—a true solid-state GWD system—is achieving optimized reservoir placement and wellbore collision risk mitigation in several regions globally.
News
February 01, 2021
Stratagraph, a pioneer in providing geological services to the global oil and gas industry for the past six decades, has named Ashby Pettigrew as its new company president.
News
December 01, 2020
CGG announced that Sercel has won a second major contract to supply land seismic equipment to a leading seismic acquisition contractor for a 3D mega-crew survey in Saudi Arabia.
Article
December 2020
A survey-while-drilling service performs definitive dynamic analysis as the BHA rotates, providing significant rig-time savings compared to conventional static MWD surveys. The ability to see continuous real-time borehole conditions optimizes drilling, reduces risks and eliminates survey-related NPT.
Article
December 2020
A new triangulation method, using MWD survey data, provides operators a viable ranging and homing option for well control contingency planning.
News
geoLOGIC acquires SubsurfaceIO, provider of cloud-based, data-agnostic mapping & analytics solutions
December 01, 2020
geoLOGIC announced the acquisition of SubsurfaceIO (SSIO), a digital technology provider of oil & gas cloud-based mapping & analytics solutions that connect and integrate public & proprietary data, enabling data access and workflows for users across different disciplines, domains, and teams.
Article
December 2020
Large-scale data accumulation is becoming more common in shale development. However, the industry struggles with a data dilemma. On the one hand, operators know that they have to gather data to learn and improve. On the other hand, the learning and analysis require so much manpower that often the collected data are left unexplored.
Article
December 2020
Unique geomechanical modeling technique mitigates geological and drilling-related risk in basins with layered evaporite sequences, which are not amenable to traditional structural analysis methods.
News
December 01, 2020
The new ROC in Abu Dhabi is the latest addition to Fugro’s global network of ROCs, which now consists of eight centers operating across all four regions.
News
November 30, 2020
PDO operates a concession in Oman that covers almost one third of the country’s land surface area. This makes the DPC a critical proving ground for deploying new technology and workflows that can meet the highly variable imaging requirements of PDO’s exploration and production activities.
News
November 26, 2020
The award underscores the important role seismic surveying plays in enabling ADNOC to identify and explore new hydrocarbon resources as highlighted by the recent major discoveries of recoverable unconventional oil resources and conventional oil reserves.
News
November 26, 2020
Covering two highly prospective areas of the UK Continental Shelf, the OBN Cornerstone 2020 survey project represented a total of 813,000 man-hours with zero Lost Time Incidents.
News
November 18, 2020
TGS will mobilize the COSL vessel HYSY720 to commence acquisition of the Espirito Santo 3D survey by year-end.
News
October 01, 2020
TruLink service provides high-definition wellbore architecture surveys to enhance end-to-end well construction operations.
News
October 22, 2020
Welltec has been awarded a crucial role in a project funded by the US Department of Energy and led by the University of Oklahoma, to illustrate that near-field Enhanced Geothermal Systems can be successfully deployed.
News
October 15, 2020
The Walker Ridge program covers approximately 300 OCS blocks including two priority areas of significant industry interest. Advanced proprietary imaging technologies will be applied to this program to unlock the full potential of existing seismic data and provide significant uplift in subsurface imaging.
News
October 13, 2020
Given the current industry context, these awards reflect the continued high priority that clients have on digitalizing and thus enhancing the value of their legacy data.
News
September 25, 2020
CGG announced completion of the first phase of its multi-year program to deliver the largest OBN multi-client survey ever acquired in the UK Central North Sea and immediate commencement of the second acquisition phase.
Article
September 2020
Integrating imaging methods reveals sub-seismic features in the reservoir section and leads to a more accurate structural model of the subsurface.
News
September 22, 2020
The industry-first basin-wide survey represents Phase II in CGG’s Gippsland ReGeneration reprocessing and acquisition project. Blocks V20-3 and V20-4 in the newly released Australian acreage are covered by the project.
