Offshore staff
OSLO, Norway — PGS has completed an 11,600-km 2D data reprocessing exercise offshore Uruguay.
The coverage, from the Pelotas to the Punta del Este basins, supports assessments for the country’s 2nd license round, due to be staged in November, with conjugate margin analogs to recent discoveries off Namibia and South Africa.
The reprocessed 2D volume covers the extension of Uruguay's shallow-water and deepwater provinces, with ties to 15,600 sq km of 3D GeoStreamer data.
PGS claims to have achieved improvements in data quality across the entire offshore area.
Increased resolution has revealed mini basins in the shallow-water areas, also confirming substantial leads in the deepwater. This should support improved understanding of the petroleum system through identifying distribution of the source rocks, seal and trap mechanisms of the reservoirs.
The company rejuvenated datasets from the 1970s through 2011, using a modern pre-processing flow and depth velocity model building, with imaging benefiting from hyperBeam tomography and Kirchhoff prestack depth migration.
07.05.2022
