Barents Sea

TGS Hotspots

  • Contains nearly two-thirds of all undiscovered resources on the NCS
  • Renewed interest in frontier exploration following recent oil and gas discoveries in the Goliat area – including Countach, Lupa and Zagato
  • Production startup on the Johan Castberg field and development of the Wisting field will trigger more exploration activity around the hubs
  • Continued drilling success in the in the Johan Castberg and Goliat areas shows that the Barents Sea is a hot area for oil and gas exploration
  • Identification of a new source rock in the west translates into new exploration opportunities in an underexplored basin
  • More and better data allows for identification of new plays and de-risking of volcanic facies and influence on petroleum systems
  • TGS has the best data coverage in the Barents Sea with more than 82,000 km² 3D data, including 10,000 km² GeoStreamer 3D data.
  • Combined with extensive 2D coverage and 2DCube the time- and/or depth-processed data offers seamless interpretation across the Barents Sea
  • High-resolution P-Cable 2D and 3D data, electromagnetic data, seep sampling studies and Facies Map Browser

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