Gravity and Magnetics for Oil & Gas and Mining
A wealth of gravity and magnetics data
Over the past 45 years, Viridien has focused on building a best-in-class, privately owned and brokered, global library of non-exclusive, multi-client airborne, land and marine potential field data, maps and interpretations that cover key basins and frontier areas with the highest quality products. Our gravity and magnetics data provide a cost-effective tool to:
- Provide a better understanding of frontier and mature basin structure and tectonics
- Reduce the overall risk associated with exploration and development across the oil & gas, mining, and environmental sectors
- Deliver additional geological data necessary to bring more efficiency to your mineral exploration work programs
- Mitigate geothermal exploration risk and pinpoint the best carbon storage sites with screening maps and fully inventoried and interpreted datasets
Viridien's non-exclusive data coverage polygons represent 700+ surveys from around the world
17.5M line kilometres of airborne data | 2.0M line kilometres marine gravity & magnetics data | 1.8M stations of land and helicopter gravity data |
Data for the oil and gas sector
Gravity and magnetic data provides value over the entire life cycle of an exploration program. From new venture analysis to pre-seismic planning, through prospect development, all the way to the end of the exploration cycle where they can be used to generate in-field referencing (IFR) models for measurement while drilling (MWD) surveys.
Data for the mining sector
Viridien has within its data library a significant number of datasets targeted at the mining and minerals sector. Many of the same benefits that potential fields data bring to the oil and gas sector apply equally to the mining sector. These surveys are higher resolution, more data dense and often include the addition of airborne radiometric data.
Expansive gravity and magnetics data
- 16,000,000 line-kilometers of aeromagnetic data
- 1,800,000 land and helicopter gravity stations
- 1,800,000 line-kilometers of marine gravity data
- 1,400,000 line-kilometers of marine magnetic data
- 638,000 line-kilometers of airborne gravity and airborne gravity gradiometry data
- 2,000,000 line-kilometers of radiometric data
- 116,000 line-kilometers of electromagnetic data
Gravity and magnetics applications
- Tectonics and structural/fault mapping
- Depth-to-basement measurement
- Salt diapirs and volcanics identification and delineation
- Sediment thickness and fairways determination
- Intra-sedimentary anomalies mapping
- Independent geological constraints for seismic interpretation
Featured: Southeast Arizona Project
Learn more about Viridien's Southeast Arizona Project. Offering the most comprehensive multi-client geological datasets in Arizona for mining, the Southeast Arizona Project leverages our experience and expertise across data science, satellite imaging, multi-physics, geology, seismic and mineral systems.
Spotlight: Airborne radiometrics
Airborne gamma-ray spectrometric datasets provide additional support to frontier and mature basin mapping to locate potential mineral deposits with higher concentrations of radioelements. Utilizing aeromagnetic data in addition to radiometric data can assist in delineating structures such as faults, folds, and intrusions, and in automating the detection of porphyry and favorable areas of ore deposits. Radiometric data is also widely used in geologic mapping, soil surveying, lithologic studies, and geothermal exploration.