French geoscience technology company CGG, in association with Petronas, has started the 8,000 km Selat Melaka 2D multi-client seismic program over the Langkasuka Basin offshore Malaysia.
Located in the Malacca Strait, the project has received industry funding and will deliver early products in December 2023 and final results in August 2024.
CGG’s Kuala Lumpur subsurface imaging centre will apply its proprietary full-waveform inversion (FWI) and Q-tomography imaging technologies to provide the industry with a better regional understanding of the petroleum systems in this underexplored basin, with a focus on the prospective pre-tertiary target.
“Initiatives such as this multi-client seismic survey are expected to attract exploration interests to support the country’s production growth strategy,” Mohamed Firouz Asnan, SVP of Malaysia Petroleum Management at Petronas, said.
“We are pleased to announce our new multi-client project offshore Malaysia, which will further assist frontier exploration in the West Peninsular area. [We] are confident that we can deliver the highest-quality data in an area lacking data coverage and help reduce uncertainties ahead of Malaysia’s 2024 Bid Round,” Dechun Lin, EVP of Earth Data at CGG, added.
