New survey supports Gabon’s latest offshore licensing round

Geoscience company CGG is extending its Gabon multiclient data footprint with a 9,800-km offset 2D seismic survey in an unexplored deepwater area of the South basin.

CGG said it is building on the recent success of its 25,000-sq-km 3D BroadSeis survey, which led to the Boudji-1 and Ivela-1 oil discoveries.

A subset of the data over the offered license blocks will be available in advance of Gabon’s 12th offshore licensing round planned for June.

The new 2D data will help define the full extent of existing and new plays in the region, CGG said. “It will also aid in understanding the thickness variations in the sediment overburden for source rock and maturity analysis,” it said.