PGS has acquired 2D MultiClient data in Western and Southern offshore Greece for
the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (
www.ypeka.gr) and
the first fast-track datasets are now available. Seismic data including marine
gravity and magnetic data can be obtained by contacting the PGS MultiClient team
at
[email protected].
The area has been
overlooked until recently, but given the excitement and promise of other
Mediterranean plays, the offshore area that is the subject of the upcoming
licensing round shows great potential. The objectives of the acquisition program
are to improve understanding of regional structure and depositional basins and
identify petroleum systems in advance of the license round in Greece, scheduled
for mid-2014. The program comprised 12,500 km of new data acquisition using
GeoStreamer GS™, a unique acquisition technology that removes both receiver and
source ghosts. Data available also includes 6,000 line km vintage data
re-processing that will be combined into a regional interpretation.
In
addition to some long offset and long record length lines that extend out onto
the abyssal plain, the main focus of the PGS MultiClient acquisition programme
is on three areas. The northern area is a grid of lines in the Ionian Sea over
the Pre-Apulian zone. This zone is an extension of the Southern Adriatic
carbonate platform with Late Cretaceous – Eocene carbonates overlain by a thick
Oligocene shale seal and Mio-Pliocene clastics on top. These are analogous to
the productive fractured carbonate reservoirs of the central Adriatic to the
north offshore Italy and Albania. To the south, there is a loose grid of lines
around the Katakolon discovery. This area is in the Ionian zone that is
analogous to the oilfields onshore Albania. Drilling throughout this zone
stopped at or before the Triassic evaporates and these are overlain by thick
Mesozoic carbonates and Tertiary clastics. Imaging here will focus on the Eocene
to Cretaceous analogues for Katakolon and the Triassic evaporates that hold
potential with halite, gypsum, and anhydrite interbedded with dolomites and thin
organic rich shales. South of Crete the grid of lines will among others reveal
the Neogene accretionary wedge that forms the Mediterranean ridge and the
extent, thickness and continuity of the Messinian evaporate coverage.
The processing is ongoing and is estimated to complete December
2013/January 2014. Fast-track PSTM lines representing each of the different
areas are now available in our data rooms for viewing.
PGS’s MultiClient data library in the in
the Mediterranean also includes data from Cyprus, Lebanon, and Sicily. Total
MultiClient data for this area includes over 40,000 line km of 2D MultiClient
data and over 10,500 sq km of 3D MultiClient data.
For more information
about the PGS MultiClient library in the Mediterranean region, please contact us
at:
[email protected]. To contact the PGS MultiClient
team about other regions our data covers around the world, please contact:
[email protected] or visit our website
at
MultiClient
Library.