TDI-Brooks has started preparations for a new offshore exploration survey campaign in Liberia, following the arrival of its research vessel R/V GYRE in Monrovia.
The company, working in collaboration with GeoPartners Ltd and the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL), has secured a contract for a multi-client survey offshore Liberia. The programme will include multibeam echo sounder (MBES) acquisition and seabed seep sampling, providing new data to support exploration understanding across the country’s continental shelf, slope and basin floor.
Survey activities are expected to begin later this month in southern Liberian waters and continue for approximately six weeks. The campaign is designed to provide a stronger, data-driven foundation for evaluating offshore prospectivity and reducing exploration risk in an underexplored part of the West African margin.
Seabed geochemical seep studies can play an important role in frontier exploration by identifying evidence of active hydrocarbon systems. Combined with bathymetric and seabed mapping from MBES data, such surveys can help build a more complete picture of the offshore petroleum system and guide future exploration decisions.
For Liberia, the work comes at a time of renewed interest in frontier and emerging offshore basins along the Atlantic margins. Improved geophysical and geochemical datasets can help national oil companies, governments and industry partners better understand basin potential before committing to more costly exploration stages.
After completing operations offshore Liberia, the R/V GYRE is scheduled to support CSA Ocean Sciences on the African Atlantic Gas Pipeline project, also known as the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline, on behalf of ONHYM and NNPC.
