OYO Geospace announces US $14.7 million order for 14,200 channels of its GSR wireless data acquisition equipment 12 January 2012—OYO Geospace announced it received a US $14.7 million order from TGC Industries (TGC) to purchase 14,200 additional single-channel GSR wireless data acquisition units and related equipment. Upon delivery of this equipment, TGC will own more than 32,000 single-channel GSR wireless units. OYO Geospace expects to deliver this equipment in January 2012.
RXT is awarded an ocean bottom cable project by Statoil 12 January 2012—Reservoir Exploration Technology has received a contract for an ocean-bottom seismic (OBC) survey for the Kvitebjørn Field in Norway. The main objective is to improve structural interpretation and achieve better illumination of fault planes to improve fault interpretation. The survey duration is estimated to be a minimum of 70 days, and the estimated contract value is US $14 million, depending on final survey design. The survey is scheduled to commence in mid 2012.
New multiclient seismic survey offshore Namibia
Funding available for environmental technology demonstrations 12 January 2012—The Department of Defense (DoD), through the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), supports the demonstration of technologies that address priority DoD environmental requirements. The goal of ESTCP is to promote the transfer of innovative environmental technologies through demonstrations that collect the data needed for regulatory and DoD end-user acceptance. Projects conduct formal demonstrations at DoD facilities and sites in operational settings to document and validate improved performance and cost savings. ESTCP is seeking proposals for innovative environmental technology demonstrations as candidates for funding beginning in early 2013. This solicitation requests preproposals via calls for proposals to federal organizations and via a broad agency announcement (BAA) for private sector organizations. Preproposals are due by 15 March 2012. Detailed instructions for DoD, Non-DoD Federal, and BAA proposers are available on the ESTCP Web site: http://www.serdp-estcp.org/Funding-Opportunities/ESTCP-Solicitations.
VSG announces the release of Avizo Fire 7 18 January 2012—Visualization Sciences Group (VSG) announces the release of version 7 of Avizo Fire, the 3D visualization and analysis software fordigital rock physics and Core Analysis. This release brings enhanced tools and improved workflows for analyzing, modeling, and characterizing rock samples, from pore-scale to core-scale. It also introduces XLab Hydro, a software tool for absolute permeability calculation. Version 7 of Avizo Fire introducesseveral automated workflows to help users perform complex analysis processes. Automatic threshold calculation and display of value histograms in help users view the relevant information. Image-based data import wizards, based on reusable templates, make it easier to create scripts for automated workflows. Tools have been reorganized, renamed and simplified. Significant performance enhancements have been achieved, especially for the segmentation of complex data sets, and some of the most time-consuming image processing tasks such as filtering have been implemented using GPU computing. Avizo Fire 7 also introduces a new module named XLab Hydro, which delivers a solution to compute absolute permeability from image-based data. XLab Hydro can both perform a full simulation of a permeability experiment, and calculate the intrinsic permeability tensor of a rock sample. The numerical simulation allows accurate computation of absolute permeability even on small samples at micro/nanoscopic scale, without complex physical experiments. Furthermore XLab Hydro is a direct image-to-simulation tool, which avoids full 3D mesh reconstruction and the use of external solvers.
TGS announces plans to commence 3D multiclient survey offshore Angola 18 January 2012—TGS has reached final agreement with Sonangol E.P. to commence acquisition of a 3D multiclient survey covering nearly 12,500 km2offshore Angola. The survey will initially commence over blocks 36 and 37 in late January, then continue over block 35 with acquisition scheduled to be completed in late 2012. The high-potential presalt hydrocarbon play off the coast of Angola lies between 2000 and 5000 m below sea level. Angola is already Africa's second largest oil producer and the conjugate margin presalt basins, which are believed to be similar to hydrocarbon rich basins offshore Brazil, open a new frontier in petroleum exploration. TGS has chartered vessel capacity for this project. TGS will process the 3D seismic data in both time and depth using its subsalt capability developed in similar basins. Preliminary products will be available to participating companies in late 2012 with a final processed product expected by late 2013.
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