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Global Update

CGGVeritas to do 3D seismic off Guinea for Hyperdynamics
Hyperdynamics Corp. says it has contracted CGGVeritas to conduct a 3D seismic acquisition and processing project covering about 4,000 sq km (1,544 sq mi) offshore Guinea.
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TGS starts 3D seismic acquisition off Sierra Leone
TGS says it has started acquisition of new multi-client 3D seismic data offshore Sierra Leone and will add 1,038 sq km (401 sq mi) of data.
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Study highlights Dragon gas potential offshore Ireland
Providence Resources says the Dragon discovery in the St George's Channel basin off southeast Ireland may contain more gas than previously thought.
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SEG 2011 Highlights

Sercel launches SeaRay 428 OBC system
Sercel launched its next-generation SeaRay seabed seismic acquisition system at the SEG Annual Meeting in San Antonio.
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Landmark details new features in R5000.8 release of its DecisionSpace Desktop
Landmark Software and Services used the 2011 Society of Exploration Geophysicists annual meeting in San Antonio to demonstrate the new functions available within the new R5000.8 release of the DecisionSpace Desktop Workspace.
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Play-to-Prospect Risk plug-in released by Schlumberger
Schlumberger released its Play-to-Prospect Risk plug-in for Petrel at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting.
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Seismic Activity

CGGVeritas completes deepwater North Sea 3D seismic survey
CGGVeritas reports completion of a 3D BroadSeis seismic survey for Chevron Norge AS.
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TGS expanding eastern Indonesia 2D data bank
TGS has started a 2D multi-client seismic survey offshore eastern Indonesia, just north of the Sunrise-Troubadour gas fields and west of the Abadi gas field.
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BP resumes reservoir monitoring program on Valhall offshore Norway
WGP Exploration has started operations on BP's latest Life of Field Seismic (LoFS) survey over the Valhall field in the Norwegian North Sea.
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Seismic Vessels

Oceanic Sirius to join CGGVeritas seismic survey operations
Eidesvik has taken delivery from Ulstein of the seismic vessel Oceanic Sirius for CGGVeritas.
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Survey vessel extends stay in Barents Sea
Dolphin Geophysical and TGS have entered into an agreement for the M/V Polar Duke to acquire 1,500 sq km (579 sq mi) of 3D seismic in the Norwegian Barents Sea.
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BGP launches new seismic vessel
BGP has launched its new 3D, 12-streamer seismic vessel BGP Prospector at Sekwang Heavy Industry in Korea.
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Equipment & Technology

Bolt, WesternGeco combine to develop marine seismic air gun
Bolt Technology Corp. and WesternGeco have begun a joint effort to develop the E-Source air gun as an environmentally sensitive energy source for marine seismic surveys.
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ffA releases two new computer programs for geoscientists
According to ffA, it has released SVI Pro and SEA 3D Pro 2011.1 software, including a new Petrel link, SaltApp, and extended Geoprobe link.
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Seitel licenses EarthStudy 360 from Paradigm
Seitel Inc. has commercially licensed Paradigm's EarthStudy 360 technology.
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FW: Table salt found to boost data storage density

 

 

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2011 tech industry graveyard | Western Digital's new drives expand laptop storage to 1TB

 

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Table salt found to boost data storage density
The National University of Singapore and the Data Storage Institute have come up with a way to use NaCl (salt) to increase bit storage density on hard drive platters to 3.3 Tbit/in. or more than five times what a Seagate 4TB hard drive has today. Read More


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Western Digital's new drives expand laptop storage to 1TB
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IBM to sell global data migration engine, NAS/iSCSI SAN
IBM plans to roll out software on its midrange and high-end clustered storage arrays that allows policy-based migration, backups and data deletion. The company also will announce that its V7000 series array can perform both file- and block-based data transfers. Read More

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