Equatorial Guinea Launches Major Offshore Seismic Reprocessing Project to Unlock Deepwater Potential
Geoex MCG, in partnership with the Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Mining Development, Perceptum, and DUG, have launched a major reprocessing initiative to revitalize legacy offshore Equatorial Guinea regional seismic datasets. The project brings new geological clarity to one of West Africa’s least explored offshore regions, enabling operators to confidently assess opportunities across the central deepwater domain, an area historically lacking modern imaging.
Equatorial Guinea has a long and successful history of oil and gas exploration, with multiple key accumulations discovered across the basin. Yet despite decades of activity, the deeper structural framework and full extent of its petroleum systems remain underexplored, particularly in the central offshore domain. With full support from the ministry, this project provides explorers with a modern, basin-wide perspective that links producing margin wells to underexplored frontier areas. Pre-funding is now open to interested companies.
The data is being reprocessed by DUG using cutting-edge imaging technologies including workflows enhanced with full waveform inversion and advanced anisotropic model building, simultaneous reprocessing with the Rio Muni dataset for imaging consistency, and integration of up to 36 producing and frontier wells to anchor the velocity model and improve interpretive confidence. The resulting dataset will offer significantly improved imaging of Miocene and Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene plays, fracture zones, deep structural trends, and potential migration pathways.
Producing fields ring the offshore perimeter, but the central offshore remains largely untouched. This project ties wells to frontier areas, illuminating structures and trends previously masked by legacy data. With industry interest rising in deepwater oceanic source rock plays, offshore Equatorial Guinea offers a compelling opportunity, and the new regional imaging provides the structural and depositional context necessary to evaluate this emerging frontier.
Source: energy-pedia.com
