Technical Content

A case study of the acquisition and background to the integrated multi-client geoscience project over the Gabon South basin.The deepwater area of the Gabon South basin is one of the last underexplored areas of the West Africa Atlantic Margin. CGG is acquiring and imaging ...

Successful development of known fields requires high-quality seismic data in order to accurately delineate the reservoir through processes such as seismic inversion and reservoir characterization studies. In the new oil price regime this has become even more important as oil companies try to keep ...

Commonly fitted by an ellipse, AVOAz is actually better approximated using limaçons. The article begins by reviewing the properties of the original limaçon, then explains how they can apply to AVOAz and finally illustrates how limaçons can help with the interpretation of anisotropy on ...

An overview of the general oil exploration landscape in Norway with a description of the Horda survey, concentrating on the acquisition, but including references to the complete integrated geoscience package that will eventually be delivered

The May edition of Oilfield Technology is freely and widely distributed at the EAGE conference. CGG paid to appear on the cover and also got to contribute an article on a topic of our choice. This was designed to reflect our current advertising and ...

There are a number of geophysical challenges when attempting to image the sub-surface in the Central North Sea. These consist of shallow anomalies, heavy multiple contamination and sharp velocity contrasts. With a combination of broadband data and CGG’s latest processing and imaging techniques, these ...

The main area of hydrocarbon exploration in the Northern North Sea has been within pre- and syn-rift Jurassic sandstones. This is with the exception of chalk reservoirs in the Ekofisk field and Palaeogene sand reservoirs of the Frigg field. Now, with ignited interest in ...

Gaussian Beam depth migration (GBM) overcomes the single-wavefront limitation of the most implementations of Kirchhoff migration, and constitutes a cost-effective alternative to full-wavefield imaging methods such as reverse time migration. Common-offset beam migration was originally derived to exploit symmetries available in marine towed-streamer acquisition ...

We present a case study over the South Utsira High. This survey was the first commercial BroadSource with BroadSeis 3D survey, and was acquired over the Johan Sverdrup field. A small pilot survey was initially acquired over the Avaldsnes discovery and later extended to ...