Business news for the week of 3 January 2011 News section front Past news briefs Seismic crew survey reports

 TGS Signs Cooperation Agreement with DMNG in Arctic Region

4 January 2011—TGS has signed a three-year sales, marketing and 2D seismic cooperation agreement with Dalmornefte Geophysica Yuzhno- Sakhalinsk (DMNG) in the Arctic region, east and west of the Bering Strait.  The cooperation agreement includes industry-funded 2D operations performed in Russian waters during late 2010, which will serve as a foundation for additional work in 2011 and 2012.

 

New high-quality 2D multiclient survey

3 January 2011—BOS has signed an agreement with authorities from Senegal, Gambia, AGC, Guinea Bissau, and Guinea Conakry to acquire, process, and promote a new 2D long offset multiclient data set for the purpose of promoting better understanding of the MSGBC Basin.

This new 2011 multiclient consists of a high-quality regional program of 15,000 2D km lines from Senegal all the way to Guinea Conakry and has been designed in conjunction with G & G input from Exploration Geosciences Limited.

The BOS NWAAM 2D survey will provide a new geophysical data base, unconstrained by National Boundaries thus providing exploration companies with a first chance to gain a unique regional overview of one of Africa's last relatively unexplored shelf areas.

The NWAAM survey will encourage current licensees to re-evaluate existing interests in a regional context, as well as discover new exploration leads.

 

North Sea 3D acquisition award

28 December 2010—Bergen Oilfield Services AS (BOS) has signed a contract with LOTOS Exploration and Production Norge AS, acting as operator on behalf of the License Group in PL 503, of a 1563 km2 acquisition program of 3D seismic data in the area of PL 503 in the southern part of the North Sea.

The survey will be acquired during the summer of 2011 by one of the BOS 3D vessels available in the North Sea this summer.