OMV Starts Austrian Seismic Campaign
Austria's OMV said January 29 it has started the largest seismic campaign in the company’s history, in its quest to explore for new indigenous gas supplies.
It will explore the geological subsurface at depths of 4,000 to 6,000 meters and will provide information on the layers of the earth that potentially contain gas. In the winter months of 2018 a total of around 600 km2 will be measured on part of Lower Austria's so-called Weinviertel region, stretching from the north-east of Vienna via the majority of the Marchfeld through to north-east of Schönkirchen.
Following the successful preparatory work, the actual survey has already started with up to four fleets, each with three impulse generator vehicles. Once the seismic survey is complete, the data will be processed and a three-dimensional image of the subsurface produced. This image will be evaluated and supports the OMV geologists to discover possible accumulations of natural gas.
At present OMV produces around 10% of Austria’s 8bn m3/yr natural gas consumption.