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Exploring the Middle East’s energy landscape in an exclusive chat with CGG’s Ramez Refaat

A major challenge in the US Gulf of Mexico is transforming disparate public datasets into a quality-controlled database. CGG has successfully created and used the database for its Storage Play Quality Index (SPQI) carbon storage screening methodology and applied its latest imaging technologies to ...

This article discusses how machine learning and artificial intelligence methods can screen a large corpus of unstructured documents, locating and analysing core and thin section images for the purposes of porosity quantification, assignment of core and thin section scale sedimentary facies and the detection ...

An increasing number of discoveries with high CO2 content offshore Brazil highlight a new exploration risk for the pre-salt play. New seismic data is fundamental to understanding deep geological features to address this risk. CGG’s Nebula-C data set provides images down to 20 km ...

For subsurface commercial ventures or environmental projects that rely on maps of faulted horizons, accurate maps are fundamental. Fault topology provides an ideal tool for analysis of connectivity of fault systems. The data required to undertake the analysis is straightforward to extract from fault ...

Ocean Bottom Node acquisition is known to improve seismic velocity model building and imaging, especially for deep and complex targets. Due to cost considerations, OBN surveys are typically only acquired around the production field, using a relatively dense receiver grid. At the exploration phase ...

Offshore Cameroon is a proven petroleum province with commercial production from the Douala Kribi-Campo Basin (DKC) and the prolific Rio del Rey Basin (RDR). The recent joint cooperation agreement between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea will lead to the development of the Yoyo and Yolanda ...

We evaluate how two-dimensional (2D) seismic and controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) imaging, both vintage and modern, might help improve geological understanding of, and exploration for, SMS deposits along part of the Mohns Ridge segment of the ultraslow-spreading Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Mohns Ridge has been ...

The Atlantis Field has gone through more than two decades of continuous seismic imaging efforts, during which time many innovative technologies were incubated, the most recent one being the successful application of full-waveform inversion (FWI) in salt environments. This technique led to a significant ...