Exploring the remaining potential of the Central North Sea

High-quality and well-positioned seismic data are key requirements of the decision-making process to recover the remaining and bypassed hydrocarbons in mature areas. A great deal of seismic exploration has taken place within the Central North Sea, using a variety of acquisition configurations including the latest broadband solutions. Through decades of exploration, most surveys in this mature basin have been reprocessed multiple times as techniques have evolved and, every so often, significant advances in technology warrant the application of these new approaches in a wholesale way. This is what CGG has recently achieved with new seismic acquisition and reprocessing of key multi-client surveys covering the entire Central Graben in the North Sea.