WesternGeco Kicks Off 3D Seismic Survey in Barents Sea

- WesternGeco Kicks Off 3D Seismic Survey in Barents Sea

Thursday, August 18, 2011
Schlumberger Ltd.

WesternGeco has begun acquisition of the Bjørnøya Phase I "Ice Bear" 3D multiclient survey in the highly prospective West Loppa area of the Barents Sea.

Following previous surveys in the area, the Ice Bear survey will extend the existing WesternGeco West Loppa datasets to the North and West.

"The study area is located on the rim of the Bjørnøya Basin, on the west flank of the Loppa High and includes a large downthrown terrace in the North together with other Jurassic faulted structures, all of which have potential," said Phil Davey, WesternGeco Europe & Africa GeoSolutions manager, "Other, separate, but still promising features are seen in the southwestern part of the survey area."

Building on previous 2D datasets, the Ice Bear survey will consist of approximately 2500 sq km of 3D seismic data, acquired using 10 X 7 km streamers. Advanced acquisition techniques coupled with demultiple processing using the WesternGeco 3D GSMP General Surface Multiple Prediction technology will provide high-quality 3D data.

Acquisition commenced on July 10, 2011, and the fast-track data will be available in November 2011 in time for nominations for the 22nd Norwegian Licensing Round. The final processed data will be available for licensing in March 2012 in advance of the applications for the 22nd Norwegian Offshore Licensing Round. Companies are invited to contact WesternGeco to discuss their interest in this program.

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Providence Starts 3D Seismic Acquisition Offshore Ireland

- Providence Starts 3D Seismic Acquisition Offshore Ireland

Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Providence Resources plc

Providence has, on behalf of itself and its partners, commenced operations for its 3D seismic acquisition project in Frontier Exploration License (FEL) 4/08 in the Porcupine Basin, off the west coast of Ireland. Using a vessel supplied by Polarcus Limited, the c. 200 km2 3D survey is expected to run for approximately 15 days. Providence operates FEL 4/08 (32%) on behalf of its partners, Chrysaor E&P Ireland Limited (60%) and Sosina Exploration Limited (8%).

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3D Training Simulator Delivered for Pazflor FPSO

- 3D Training Simulator Delivered for Pazflor FPSO

Thursday, June 30, 2011
VRcontext International

VRcontext International was recently awarded a milestone contract with TOTAL E&P Angola to deliver a 3D "Immersive Training Simulator" (ITS) for the Pazflor FPSO, to be anchored on one of TOTAL's largest offshore producing assets.

Walkinside allowed the TOTAL Training Room Instructors to create customized collaborative scenarios that were later used to develop improved communication skills of the trainees and to test their execution performance.

Walkinside ITS' Scenario Editor helped TOTAL E&P Angola simulate real-life workflow situations using different training mode options, with diverse immersive scenarios specifically designed for the planning, the scheduling and the execution of Standard Operating Procedures. The implementation of these scenarios can be timed and stored for subsequent operators' assessment, improvement tracking and playback for refresher courses or novice training, making learning more effective, fun and easy!

"The objective for the Field Operators was to associate the Tags of equipment, instruments such as pressure gauges, valves, safety valves on one hand and piping lay out and the main machines such as pumps on the other hand, with their location on site for various scenarios including HSE (Health, Safety Environmental) procedures, Black Start procedures and Routine operations," said Lionel Ramat from the Field Operations group of the Pazflor project for TOTAL E&P Angola.

He added: "Even though it is still early to quantify the return on investment, the ease of the takeover by the trainees and their feedback were very positive. Also the value of the ITS, as a contextual training environment, was confirmed by experienced operational personnel."

Thanks to the Walkinside ITS, TOTAL can now rely on faithful, photo-realistic 3D representations of its new producing assets for the training of all field personnel. The 3D Virtual Reality models can be automatically created from the existing 3D Engineering CAD drawings using the smart Walkinside converter capabilities. The 3D models are subsequently enhanced to include interactive items that can be manually operated during the training sessions, such as valves, pumps, fire-extinguishers, etc. Trainees are therefore able to use these live-action items in training scenarios.

This breakthrough technology helps accelerate both safe start-up operation and time to first oil of all new important assets, significantly improving Return on Investment for major capital projects.

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SeaBird Awarded 2D, 3D Shallow Water Contracts

SeaBird Awarded 2D, 3D Shallow Water Contracts

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

SeaBird Exploration plc

SeaBird updated on the following new contracts awarded in the 2D and 3D shallow water.
Hawk Explorer has been awarded a short survey in direct continuation from the current employment in West Africa where the vessel will be employed until end May/ early June 2011.

Northern Explorer is currently carrying out a survey in East Africa with expected completion mid May 2011, and has now been awarded a further contract in South Africa where she will be employed until mid to end July 2011.

Geo Mariner is mobilizing to South East Asia with arrival mid April, and has been awarded a 2D contract for one month survey with client option to extend for a further month together with an option for a further 3D survey. This will keep the vessel busy to mid June, and with the option to end of July.

These contracts have a combined value of approximately US $7-9 million and represent approximately 6 vessel-months utilization including mobilization time and including the option on Geo Mariner.

With these awards and the general improvement in the tender activity SeaBird believes that the 2D activity will increase going forward resulting in a much improved utilization for its 2D fleet compared to 2nd half of 2010. Rate levels are however still low but on profitable EBITDA levels.