PGS to survey Gulf of Oman blocks
  by: OilOnline
  Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS) announced that it, in cooperation with the government of the Sultanate of Oman, announced that it will run a seismic survey of the Gulf of Oman, Blocks 18A, 18B and 41 License Round, 2003. This is part of an Exclusive Seismic Survey and Reprocessing agreement between PGS Geophysical AS and the Ministry of Oil and Gas Oman to assist with the license applications for Blocks 18A, 18B and 41. This license round will open on January 15 and close on July 15. It will comprise of 3 blocks, 18A, 18B and 41, situated in the Gulf of Oman. In total the blocks cover an area of 45,240 sq km's. The block sizes are 7 920 sq km's, 13,520 sq km's and 23,800 sq km's respectively.

The 3 blocks have been selected after interpretation of the new GO2002 2D survey acquired by PGS Geophysical AS. The GO20002 survey comprises of 5839 line-km's with additionally 2738 line-km's of reprocessed data, both available from water depths of 50-3,000 meters. All seismic data will be made available in two data packages.

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