French geoscience company CGG is set to acquire a multi-client airborne gravity and magnetic survey over the onshore Congo Cuvette Basin.
The company entered an agreement with Congo’s Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo (SNPC) to conduct the survey on the underexplored onshore sedimentary basin.
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The project, claimed to be industry’s first-ever survey of its kind, will be largely funded by the oil and gas industry.
The survey data is scheduled for licencing in early next year and will help in assessing hydrocarbon prospectivity in the region, supporting future exploration initiatives.
CGG plans to use a modified aircraft equipped with its proprietary Full Spectrum Falcon airborne technology for the survey.
The aircraft will procure gravity gradient, gravity and magnetic data, which will be then evaluated by CGG’s experts based in Perth, Australia.
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By GlobalDataCGG Multi-Physics senior vice-president Greg Paleolog, Senior Vice President, Multi-Physics, CGG, said: “Our Congo Cuvette Basin multi-client survey will utilise the world’s best airborne geophysical technology in a truly frontier area.
“The Cuvette Basin could be considered one of the last provinces in Africa to potentially hold giant to supergiant oil and gas accumulations. It’s exciting that the SNPC and our prefunders recognise the value that large-scale acquisition of high-quality data can add to their exploration programmes.”
Particularly, the survey seeks to understand the sedimentary thickness of the Cuvette, as well as identify prospective structures.
Recently, CGG secured a three-year contract extension from the Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) to continue providing advanced land seismic imaging services at its Muscat’s dedicated processing centre (DPC).
