Geophysical Exploration Technology (Getech), Leeds, England, has signed initial agreements to reprocess and map gravity data for the northern and central Asian regions of the former Soviet Union.
Getech, a division of the University of Leeds Industrial Services Ltd., agreed to the program with the Russian Academy of Sciences and Geodetic Services of Russia. The project is to be funded by the Russian oil industry.
Getech said the gravity data, previously classified as secret, are to be released "in a controlled way" to encourage and enhance exploration by western oil companies.
Getech believes regions to be covered by the study are potentially the world's richest oil provinces outside Saudi Arabia.
Ncagp will get under way early in 1993 and require 3 years to complete due to the size of the study region and the task of digitizing tens of millions of point data. Getech is increasing the size of the computer center in Moscow, where most of the digitizing will take place.
The link between the University of Leeds and Russia began in 1990 with an oil industry funded project to reprocess gravity data for Europe as far east as the Ural Mountains.
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