These furrows highlight that the North Sea experienced strong ocean currents over 1 million years ago before becoming encased in ice. Although these seismic scans create an incredible opportunity ...

Gulf of Suez Petroleum Co. (GUPCO) confirmed reserves with the East Crystal-1 exploratory well in an integrated concession ...

These include ocean-bottom seismic cable (OBC) systems, for example, where the large-scale multiplexing capability and passive nature of fibre-optic sensing systems can be fully exploited.

Offshore oil and gas exploration uses deafening seismic surveys that generate the loudest human sounds in the ocean, short of those made by explosives. Seismic testing involves blasting the seafloor ...

Geophysical company Seabird Exploration and offshore driller Energy Drilling have agreed to an all-share merger as they seek ...

Image Credit: Courtesy of Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) The self-surfacing ocean bottom seismograph captures seismic activity at the seafloor. Once measurements ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C.— A status conference on seismic litigation revealed today the industry will not pursue efforts to employ seismic blasting to search the Atlantic Ocean for offshore petroleum deposits ...

They also discovered a new fault system at the bottom of the ocean. The technology could eventually help them map fault lines in areas where scientists know very little about seismic activity on ...