Ikon Science sponsors AAPG Imperial Barrel Award
Geoscience technology company Ikon Science has sponsored the 2012 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) "Imperial Barrel Award", where students are asked to look at data from somewhere in the world.
17 May 2012

Reservoir Group core open day in Guildford, May 24th
Kirk Geophysics, one of the companies in the Reservoir Group, is hosting an open day on May 24th at its Core Centre in Guildford, near London.
17 May 2012

Spectraseis gets 28x faster processing on NVIDIA GPUs
Spectraseis of Houston reports that it can do elastic wave-equation imaging 28 times faster using NVIDIA graphical processing units, compared to using conventional microchips.
17 May 2012

CGGVeritas 20,000 Sercel channel, 1,500 sq mile survey in Pennsylvania
CGGVeritas reports that it is doing a 1,500 square mile 3D seismic survey in Pennsylvania, USA, using 20,000 Sercel UNITE channels. The project is for a number of different clients (multi-client).
17 May 2012

EMGS revenues up 159 per cent
Electromagnetic survey company EMGS reports that its revenues for the first quarter of 2012 were $55.6m, an increase of 159 per cent from the first quarter of 2011.
17 May 2012

3D seismic + gravity survey offshore Greenland
Gravity gradiometry company ARKeX has announced a multi-client full tensor gravity gradiometry (FTG) survey offshore Greenland.
25 Apr 2012

WesternGeco launches "ObliQ" broadband seismic acquisition technique
Seismic company WesternGeco has launched the "ObliQ" offshore broadband acquisition and imaging technique, to enhance low frequency content of seismic data. .
25 Apr 2012

Dolphin Group purchases Open Geophysical Inc
Seismic company Dolphin Group ASA of Bergen reports that its subsidiary company Dolphin Geophysical Inc has purchased the entire stock of Open Geophysical Inc (OGI), a seismic processing software company based in Houston.
25 Apr 2012

Spectrum starts Brazilian Equatorial Margins program
Seismic survey company Spectrum has started a 15,000km 2D survey in Foz do Amazonas, in the Brazilian Equatorial Margins.
25 Apr 2012

Spectrum survey offshore Namibia
Seismic survey company Spectrum has started a multi-client survey in the Luderitz basin, offshore Namibia.
14 Apr 2012

Elsevier's Geofacets adds 18,000 geological maps
Geofacets, the tool for searching for geo-documents based around maps provided by publisher Elsevier, has added a further 18,000 geological maps, provided by the Society of Sedimentary Geology of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
14 Apr 2012

Schlumberger launches Houston geoengineering laboratory
Schlumberger has inaugurated a new geo-engineering laboratory in Houston.
14 Apr 2012