CGG acquiring multiclient survey in UK West Shetland basin

CGG of Paris started acquisition of a high-density, rich-azimuth, towed-streamer multiclient survey in the UK West Shetland basin covering 3,600 sq km. The Oceanic Vega and the Geo Caribbean are being deployed.

The survey, designed in collaboration with international oil majors, focuses on high-resolution seismic data in an area northwest of the Shetland Isles over the northern part of the Rona Ridge, CGG said.

The acquisition involves multiple targets from shallow Tertiary and Cretaceous plays to complex fractured Devono-Carboniferous reservoirs.

CGG will process the data using deblending technology and full-waveform inversion velocity modeling. Preliminary data is to be available in early 2019 with final data to be available in mid-2019.