CGG Wins Ivoirian Survey Contract

French geosciences firm CGG announced October 26 it has secured a contract to acquire a multi-client program of gravity, gravity gradiometry, and magnetic data in Côte d’Ivoire from the country’s regulator DGH and state oil company Petroci.

In partnership with local firm Harvex Geosolutions, CGG will “acquire approximately 28,000 line-km of data over onshore and shallow offshore licenses, subject to industry pre-funding commitments.” Although contract value was not disclosed, CGG’s statement said it “includes an option to acquire a further 26,000 line-km over the deepwater offshore licences.”

For this program which is to last five months, the French firm will deploy its new Falcon Full Spectrum technology, the industry’s most sensitive airborne gravity platform. At the end of the program, data collected will be interpreted along existing exploration data.

It is CGG’s first major contract in West Africa this year. In October 2016, it secured a contract to carry out 3D seismic surveys over an area of 40,000 km² in the Zambezi Delta offshore Mozambique. Two months later in December it secured 3D seismic contracts from Gabon and Morocco.

Olivier de Souza