Shearwater has won a contract for a deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey offshore Angola from ExxonMobil.
Shearwater has won a contract for a deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey offshore Angola from ExxonMobil. The two-month project is scheduled to commence in the third quarter.
The project will be delivered using Shearwater’s OBN platform, with the vessel SW Tasman deploying the Pearl node system, with SW Gallien deployed as source vessel.
‘Being selected by ExxonMobil to perform this OBN survey in Angola is a real testament to Shearwater’s OBN platform,’ says Irene Waage Basili, CEO of Shearwater. ‘With this award, Shearwater continues to deploy the industry’s leading geophysical toolbox to support West Africa’s energy sector.’
Meanwhile, Shearwater has won a contract for a deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey in Ghana’s Jubilee and TEN fields, operated by Tullow and its partners.
It will be the first deepwater OBN project offshore Ghana, following Shearwater’s successful recent deployment of the SW Tasman vessel and Pearl node OBN platform in Côte d’Ivoire and Angola. The two-month survey is scheduled to begin in the last quarter of 2025.
SW Tasman and the Pearl node platform have been continuously deployed offshore West Africa since late 2024, first executing the inaugural OBN survey offshore Côte d’Ivoire before mobilising to consecutive surveys offshore Angola.
This first OBN survey is expected to further enhance reservoir imaging, helping to unlock deeper insights to inform field development and production strategies, said Shearwater. It follows a streamer survey executed by Shearwater over the Jubilee and TEN fields in early 2025.
