Arctic Oil & Gas Directory: CGGVeritas awarded Angola 4-D processing program

As reported on the Your Industry News website April 17, CGGVeritas said that, after negotiations with Total Exploration & Production Angola and Sonangol, it has been awarded a five-year contract for the 4-D seismic processing and imaging of annual and biennial monitor surveys planned to take place offshore Angola.

Over 6,000 km2 of seismic data from five of Total’s deep offshore group of fields in Block 17, which is operated by Total in partnership with Statoil, BP and Esso, are expected to be processed over the contract’s duration. The large program, including fast-track, base and monitor processing, will be shared between the CGGVeritas processing center in Luanda, which has served the Angolan E&P industry since 1999, and the CGGVeritas dedicated processing center for Total in Pau, France, which has been operating since 2002.

CGGVeritas has already gained considerable experience with this type of project, having successfully delivered 4-D processing and reservoir characterization services to Total in Angola Block 17 over the last decade. The Luanda center, with support and training from the dedicated processing center in Pau, will draw on this expertise to apply a robust, optimized 4-D processing and imaging workflow for each field so as to deliver high-end quality with a significantly reduced turnaround time. This will provide Total Angola’s reservoir management teams with the information required and sufficient time for evaluating results to meet field development requirements.