InterOil has selected CGG to carry out a land seismic and an airborne gravity survey in order to evaluate the hydrocarbon potential of its acreage in Papua New Guinea.
The airborne group of CGG will undertake a large FALCON Airborne Gravity Gradiometer (AGG) survey to acquire 11,000 line km of high-resolution data with fixed-wing aircraft and 25,700 line km using rotary-wing aircraft.
The 2D conventional land seismic award includes a 465km survey in InterOil’s southern PPL474 and 476 permits.
It may also include further coverage totalling over 200km to the north over the Triceratops and Raptor discoveries.
CGG said it will install 2,100 Sercel UNITE cable-free channels and autonomous seismic source technology in the two-part survey, which is scheduled to commence in January and end in August 2015.
The land seismic data will be processed at CGG’s imaging centre in Bangkok.
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By GlobalDataCGG CEO Jean-Georges Malcor said: "CGG was a natural choice for these surveys given the long-term partnership we have developed with InterOil in the Asia-Pacific region over the last seven years.
"The awards also recognise both our ability to supply a fully integrated exploration solution and our capability to tightly integrate the interpretation using both the airborne geophysics and the land seismic data into a "Basin in a Box" multi-physics solution which will be highly beneficial to InterOil."
CGG offers geological, geophysical and reservoir capabilities to its customers primarily from the worldwide oil and gas industry.
Image: CGG CEO Jean-Georges Malcor. Photo: Courtesy of CGG.
