UK oil independent Borders & Southern has reported that the PGS vessel Ramform Challenger has begun the company’s 3D seismic programme, some 140km south of the Falkland Islands.
Covering an area of more than 1,000sq km, the survey is being carried out on Falklands quadrant 61, adjacent to the company’s earlier 2007/2008 3D survey. The aim is to evaluate various fault/dip closed structures similar to the Darwin discovery, tracking the high quality shallow marine sands that comprise the Darwin reservoir.