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With the market for Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) continuing to grow along with deepwater field expenditure (Douglas-Westwood forecasts global deep water CAPEX of US$225 billion between 2011...

Extensive thick sequences of basalt dominate the northwest flank of the Faroe Shetland Basin. Recent reprocessing of this long offset data dramatically improves the interpretability of the sub-basalt...

When a company is considering a new frontier area for exploration, a number of crucial questions require a rapid answer. The foremost of these is whether or not there is an active petroleum system....

"We have just completed one of the most demanding seismic acquisition programmes we have ever undertaken˝, says Jørn Christiansen, principal advisor to TGS.

In 2006, TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company acquired 3600km of multi-client 2D seismic in the Russian Chukchi Sea in cooperation with Geophysical Solutions Integrator. The Chukchi Sea has an average water...

The new assessment carried out by USGS indicates that northeastern Greenland may be a very important future petroleum province. If the mean estimate of 31 BBOE were discovered and proven, this huge...

There was little industry interest in 2002 and 2003 when TGS launched the idea of aquiring a new generation of regional, long offset, long recording 2D data covering the entire North Sea Basin. The...

It is no secret that it is becoming more and more of a challenge to meet the expected production increases in the Gulf of Mexico. With its incredible potential, the much touted deep gas shelf play...

In 2005 the Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum in cooperation with Nunaoil A/S and TGS-NOPEC acquired more than 3,200 km of new 2D seismic data offshore West Greenland in the Disko-Nuussuaq Region. The...

T GS always had, and still has, a very different philosophy from most seismic companies, with a distinct business model," Hank explains. "In effect, TGS is primarily a marketing organisation, close...