{"id":2432,"date":"2015-02-10T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T10:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilnewskenya.com\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2015-09-07T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:38:38","slug":"dolphin-geo-wins-3d-seismic-contract-offshore-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/dolphin-geo-wins-3d-seismic-contract-offshore-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin Geo wins 3D seismic contract offshore Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dolphin has announced it been awarded a 3D seismic contract including fast track data processing by an undisclosed major oil company for a 3-4 months project offshore Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Following the contract signing a Dolphin high-capacity 3D vessel will commence operation during second quarter of 2015 according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>The contract comes weeks after the same company reported it had been awarded a 3D seismic contract in West Africa for an undisclosed independent oil company.<\/p>\n<p>The contract awarded in November 2014 is for a survey with a duration of approximately 40 days and which will be performed during this quarter of 2015 by a Dolphin high-capacity 3D vessel.<\/p>\n<p>Also ongoing is the acquisition and processing of a 7,000 sq.km. SHarp Broadband 3D survey offshore Senegal following a seismic contract by Kosmos Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Dolphin is using its high-capacity 3D vessel, Polar Duchess which commenced operations in September last year and was set take approximately four months to complete. Dolphin&#8217;s OpenCPS software will be utilised both onboard the vessel to produce a PostSTM Fast-Track dataset and then for the final PSTM volume at Dolphin&#8217;s UK Processing Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolphin has announced it been awarded a 3D seismic contract including fast track data processing by an undisclosed major oil company for a 3-4 months project offshore Africa. Following the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/dolphin-geo-wins-3d-seismic-contract-offshore-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[2773,614,2778,2779,2780,2283,2720],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-dolphin-geo","tag-dolphin-geophysical","tag-kosmos-energy","tag-opencps-software","tag-polar-duchess","tag-senegal","tag-west-africa","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dolphin-geophysical.jpg?fit=700%2C313&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-De","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":829,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/dolphin-secures-3d-seismic-contract-in-east-africa\/","url_meta":{"origin":2432,"position":0},"title":"Dolphin secures 3D seismic contract in East Africa","author":"Samuel Kamau Mbote","date":"March 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"[twitter-follow screen_name='oilnewskenya'] Dolphin has announced it has been awarded a 3D seismic contract with a non-disclosed major Oil Company in East Africa. 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