Norwegian offshore seismic company PGS and its joint venture (JV) consortium partners TGS and oilfield services company SLB have agreed to expand multi-client 3D coverage in the Sarawak province offshore Malaysia.
Under the agreement, the consortium partners will reprocess legacy datasets with Petronas Malaysia Petroleum Management’s approval, to merge with newly acquired phases.
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PGS stated the reprocessing addendum strengthens a multi-year contract awarded in 2020 by Petronas to acquire and process up to 105,000km² of multi-client 3D data over a period of five years in the Sarawak basin.
The Sarawak acquisition programme’s second phase is currently under way in blocks ND-3 and SK-3B. It is due to be merged with around 6,700km² of reprocessed data.
PGS Sales & Services executive vice-president Nathan Oliver said: “The Sarawak basins comprise a proven petroleum system with many producing fields already present in the Central Luconia province.
“Through the addition of high-quality reprocessing of legacy data on a multi-client basis, PGS and partners will be able to [identify] high-grade areas and merge with newly acquired GeoStreamer data to improve regional understanding of the petroleum systems and leads mapping in frontier blocks. This will ultimately lead to accelerated projects and renewed phases of acquisition.”
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By GlobalDataLast month, TGS, PGS and SLB secured pre-funding for a multi-client 3D seismic survey planned for North Luconia Province in the Sarawak Basin. The 6,885km² survey acquisition is scheduled to start in June 2023 and conclude in August 2023.
