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Article: TGS Announces New 3D Project in Central and Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
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- January 5, 2009
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HOUSTON -- TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (TGS) announced today that it is acquiring a new Multi-Client 3D survey in the DeSoto Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico. Named "Hernando", the new survey covers a 300 OCS block (6,900 sq. km) area.
The MV BOS Arctic has already acquired approximately 25% of the project and is scheduled to complete the acquisition in May of 2009. The project deliverables will include Pre-Stack Time Migration as well as Anisotropic Kirchhoff and Wave Equation Pre-Stack Depth Migrations. Gravity data is also being collected along with the seismic data.
"The Hernando survey will provide 3D data over a geological trend that was ...