Discover Geoscience has completed the Gulf of Papua Prospectivity Study for client Searcher Seismic.
Discover Geoscience has completed the Gulf of Papua Prospectivity Study for client Searcher Seismic.
The project consists of a tectono-stratigraphic framework, tectonostratigraphic elements, facies and EOD mapping, charge modelling plus play concepts and leads inventory.
The study is being packaged as an integrated multi-disciplinary report of the hydrocarbon prospectivity potential across the entire Gulf of Papua utilizing Searcher’s Gulf of Papua datasets.
The Searcher data library in Papua New Guinea includes 77,910 km of 2D seismic data (newly acquired and reprocessed), 1795 km2 of 3D seismic reprocessing, 60,690 km2 of airborne gravity, magnetic and gradiometry data and a geochemical study covering the entire Gulf of Papua.
The Gulf of Papua covers more than 187,000 km2 with only 27 wildcat exploration wells drilled to date in shallow water; much of the region remains underexplored.
Simon Crellin, sales director for Searcher, said: ‘Modern seismic data has enabled deeper imaging of distinctive tectonic packages and basement which has been utilized in the study, leading to the identification of several new plays within the Gulf of Papua. The study has revealed significant prospectivity in this frontier region. Leveraging high-quality seismic data, drop cores, dredge samples, seep data and geochemical analysis within this study has enabled us to build a comprehensive leads inventory for the Gulf of Papua.’
