A common geoscientific misconception is that land-based shear-wave (S-wave) seismic data accounts for only a small percentage of the total amount of compressional-wave (P-wave) data acquired in ...

Drilling for oil is an expensive gamble: With project costs rising every year, an oil company can stand to lose an incredible amount of money exploring or developing a property that fails to yield ...

An electromagnetic (EM) technique for marine hydrocarbon prospecting, first used commercially in November 2002, has gained wide industry acceptance. The technique identifies resistive reservoirs by ...

There can surely be no industrial sector responsible for such continuous advances as marine geoscience technology, and yet be so vulnerable to market forces beyond its control, namely the low price of ...

Norwegian marine seismic survey services firm SeaBird Exploration, part of SED Energy Holdings, has secured a contract extension for its Fulmar Explorer seismic survey vessel.SeaBird Exploration has ...