CGGVERITAS HAS BEGUN a new 1,500-sq km, 3D seismic acquisition survey over block 2714A off Namibia for Chariot Oil & Gas. The program was agreed by Chariot’s subsidiary Enigma Oil & Gas Exploration a new farm-in partner Petrobras, which is paying half the costs of the survey.

FIRST AUSTRALIAN RESOURCES (FAR) has completed the Data Acquisition phase of the CSEM Data Acquisition and Geophysical Evaluation Program over part of its License Area comprising Sangomar Offshore, Rufisque Offshore and Sangomar deep Offshore Blocks in Senegal, West Africa; where a number of drilling prospects have already been identified by FAR and its partner Petrosen.

Total E&P Angola has awarded CGGVeritas a contract for the inversion of 4D seismic data covering the Dalia, Rosa, Girassol, and Jasmine fields offshore Angola.

SPECTRUM’S EGYPTIAN JOINT venture, Spectrum-Geopex has completed the first phase of a significant computer systems upgrade at its seismic data processing centre in Nasr City, Cairo that will quadruple its seismic processing capacity.