French geophysics specialist CGGVeritas has announced two Middle East contracts in Oman and Saudi Arabia.
In Oman, the company’s Ardiseis joint venture with TAQA, has been awarded a three-year firm contract with an option for a further one-year extension for the high-channel-count, high-productivity 3D land seismic operations it is currently conducting in Oman on behalf of PDO. This contract award marks over 20 years of continuous land seismic presence by CGGVeritas in Oman.
A step-change in the resolution of the seismic imaging is expected at all subsurface target levels, through implementation of a high-density acquisition configuration deploying the Sercel Nomad 90 vibrator, the highest-force vibrator available in the industry, and the CGGVeritas proprietary high-end broadband vibroseis technique, EmphaSeis.
These two new technologies will enable improved penetration of the seismic signal, resulting in a high-density dataset containing frequencies down to 1.5Hz.
In Saudi Arabia, CGGVeritas has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Saudi Aramco for collaborative research and development of geophysical acquisition, processing, analysis and interpretation technologies.
The MOU creates a framework for Saudi Aramco and CGGVeritas to identify opportunities for research, development and testing of advanced technologies, including: automation in the seismic value chain for oil and gas exploration and field development, permanent reservoir monitoring systems, non-seismic geophysics and inversion of seismic/non-seismic data.
