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Norway's TGS-NOPEC launches 2D data program offshore West Papua

Norwegian seismic surveyor TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co ASA has launched a 2D seismic acquisition program offshore West Papua province in Indonesia.

TGS said the program will add 2,240 km of new 2D data designed to help evaluate the petroleum potential south of the Salawati Basin, considered to be one of the largest oil basins in eastern Indonesia with total cumulative oil production exceeding 300 million bbl.

TGS said data acquisition is expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2010.

TGS general manager for Asia Pacific, Rod Starr, said TGS expects the program to be the first of a series of 2D projects this year, conditional on further industry support.

Upon the completion of the program, the TGS Indonesia library will exceed 100,000 km of 2D seismic; 400,000 km of multi-beam bathymetric data and 1,200 core samples covering over 1 million sq km of Indonesia’s deep-water basins.

TGS said the program has industry pre-funding and that it supports the Indonesian government's objective to attract exploration and reverse declining production levels.

What’s your view of this development? Is there something happening in the Salawati Basin or is the Indonesian government just gathering information in the mere hope of finding something?

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Eric Watkins joined Oil & Gas Journal in 2001 as Middle East Correspondent and now serves as its Oil Diplomacy Editor, drawing out the industry’s political implications. His column Watching the World appears weekly in Oil & Gas Journal, while his news articles appear daily on Oil & Gas Journal Online. Eric’s work is based on his experience as a correspondent in the Middle East, Europe, and Central Asia. He lived in Saudi Arabia, 1981-88; Yemen, 1989-94; the UK, 1988-89 and 1994-2000; and Cyprus, 2000-04. Additional assignments have taken him to Africa, the Arabian Gulf, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

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