Offshore staff
OSLO, Norway – TGS has resumed work on a geochemical coring project offshore Nigeria, in partnership with local joint venture partner TGS-PetroData.
This is part of an anomaly-targeting program focused on previous analysis of multi-beam and backscatter data. Coring, which started last week, is due to be completed in late November.
The project covers an offshore area of around 82,000 sq km (31,660 sq mi) and will incorporate 17 seabed heat flow measurements and 253 seabed cores, the locations based on multi-beam and backscatter anomalies.
TGS will also apply its recently reprocessed NGRE19 2D seismic to the data. Following geochemical analyses, final reports should be available to the industry in 1Q 2021.
CEO Kristian Johansen said the survey “will further de-risk the offshore region and speed up exploration decision-making in an area which is likely to see a growing level of licensing activity in the near future.
“With the progress of the Petroleum Industry Bill, the opportunities to further explore offshore Nigeria have never been more appealing.”
10/21/2020
