Polaris Natural Resources has won a contract to shoot a 2D seismic survey of the Cabora Bassa area onshore Zimbabwe for client Invictus Energy.
Polaris Natural Resources has won a contract to shoot a 2D seismic survey of the Cabora Bassa area onshore Zimbabwe for client Invictus Energy.
Canada’s oldest seismic acquisition company intends to conduct, process, and interpret a minimum of 400 line km of 2D seismic data in order to refine the Mzarabani-1 drilling location and well path and identify additional prospectivity for the upcoming drilling campaign.
The Cabora Bassa Project encompasses the Mzarabani Prospect, a multi-TCF and liquids-rich conventional gas-condensate target, which is potentially the largest, undrilled seismically defined structure onshore Africa. The prospect is defined by a dataset acquired by Mobil in the early 1990s that includes seismic, gravity, aeromagnetic and geochemical data.
Polaris has appointed Barry Meikle as seismic project manager on the project. Meikle is based in Zimbabwe and has extensive experience in onshore seismic acquisition projects with Total and Interoil, and project management expertise with oilfield service companies in East Africa.
Polaris has conducted more than 1000 seismic projects since 1996 and introduced the first ‘low impact seismic crew’ into Africa in 2008. The company has conducted more than 15 projects in East Africa.
Polaris has pledged to implement an 85% local content policy on all of its operations regarding employment, supplies and consumables.
The campaign will involve the training and deployment of approx. 80 local field crew for the seismic acquisition programme.
