Angola: Total-Sonangol award 4D seismic contract

April 16, 2012
Total Exploration & Production Angola and Angola’s Sonangol let a contract to CGGVeritas for 4D seismic processing and imaging and biennial monitor services offshore Angola.

Total Exploration & Production Angola and Angola’s Sonangol let a contract to CGGVeritas for 4D seismic processing and imaging and biennial monitor services offshore Angola.

Expected to be processed during the contract’s 5-year duration are more than 6,000 sq km of seismic data from five of Total’s deep offshore group of fields (Girassol/Jasmim, Rosa, Dalia/Camelia, Pazflor, and CLOV) on Block 17, operated by Total in partnership with Statoil, BP, and Esso.

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Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.

Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.