Searcher, a UK-based data and service provider, announced Wednesday that it had entered into a partnership with Ministry of Energy and Minerals of Oman.
The agreement will see Searcher acquire several new seismic surveys and reprocess legacy seismic data both offshore and onshore in Oman.
“We are delighted to announce our strategic partnership with the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in Oman. Our priority is to focus on the exciting offshore basins where we see significant prospectivity. Together with MEM we will reprocess legacy data and acquire new seismic to reveal new insights into the hydrocarbon system and bring new investors to this oil rich region,” Dr Neil Hodgson, VP Geoscience at Searcher said in a statement.
The firm said that reprocessing of offshore legacy data in the Sea of Oman has already begun.
“DUG Technology have achieved extraordinary uplift by applying a modern broadband processing sequence with diligent multiple removal technologies,” the company said.
“These insights are revealing an exciting oil prospectivity with unexplored yet significant resource potential. Searcher envisage that the whole 2D and 3D dataset will be reprocessed in this cooperation with MEM, in addition to acquisition of new 2D and 3D seismic in 2022/23.”
Additionally, the firm said that the Oman 2D and 3D rectification project has already been completed, which consisted of 32,000 km of 2D plus an additional 2,500 square km of 3D legacy data which was rectified using Searcher’s post-stack reprocessing method.
