Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS has secured two 4D monitoring tasks from Equinor AS for the Mariner subject within the UK North Sea and the Heidrun subject within the Norwegian Sea, Norway.
Below the contracts, Shearwater will deploy its Isometrix know-how for each surveys, making use of 4D seismic monitoring to detect reservoir dynamics over time, “for optimizing reservoir administration and enhancing manufacturing effectivity”, the Norway-based firm mentioned in a information launch Wednesday. The monetary particulars of the contracts weren’t disclosed.
The surveys are anticipated to take two months and shall be carried out by the SW Amundsen and an undershoot vessel, Shearwater mentioned.
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The corporate famous that this would be the fourth Isometrix deployment for Mariner, complementing earlier monitor surveys in 2020 and 2022, and the third for Heidrun, following surveys in 2018 and 2021.
“These tasks underscore our shared ambition for pioneering and repeating manufacturing monitoring options, and we look ahead to as soon as extra supporting Equinor in navigating in the direction of the environment friendly optimization of assets”, Shearwater CEO Irene Waage Basili mentioned. “Our dedication to offering top-tier seismic know-how and experience will present Equinor with the insights wanted to proceed delivering long-term, sustainable worth creation from the Mariner and Heidrun fields”.
In the meantime, Shearwater was additionally awarded a contract by Spirit Power Restricted for its Morecambe Web Zero (MNZ) challenge, advancing carbon seize and storage (CCS) capabilities in the UK (UK).
The six-week survey within the Morecambe Bay space is scheduled in the summertime and shall be Shearwater’s fifth CCS survey within the final two years, the corporate mentioned in a launch Tuesday.
Spirit Power was awarded a carbon storage license in September 2023 within the UK North Sea Transition Authority’s first ever carbon storage licensing spherical. The corporate goals to remodel the North and South Morecambe fuel fields into everlasting, protected, and safe carbon storage, supporting the UK’s Web Zero ambition to seize and retailer over 50 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per yr by 2035.
The survey will purchase and course of round 193 sq. miles (500 sq. kilometers) of high-resolution 3D seismic information over the Morecambe Bay fuel fields to supply an in depth definition of potential carbon storage websites. The survey fulfils a requirement of the lately awarded carbon storage license, and the information acquired will assist all subsequent fashions and mapping for CCS initiatives, Spirit Power mentioned in a separate assertion.
“We’re proud to assist Spirit Power on the Morecambe CCS hub”, Shearwater SVP of Technique and New Markets Tanya Herwanger mentioned. “By making use of our revolutionary information assortment and imaging know-how to assist operators acquire a greater understanding of their storage websites we assist deployment of CCS at scale. CCS has been recognized as a key mitigation measure for local weather change however deployment at scale stays the problem. We’re leveraging our experience and our marine seismic know-how to satisfy this problem so as to construct a extra sustainable future”.
“This achievement marks a pivotal level in our MNZ journey”, Spirit Power Transition Director and MNZ challenge lead Matt Browell-Hook mentioned. “We’re progressing very properly towards our carbon storage license commitments and using superior technical approaches to additional broaden our 40 yr operational data of our East Irish Sea belongings is one other essential step in the direction of our objective of at-scale, industrial carbon storage by 2030”.
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