Seismic Survey Challenges offshore South Africa

Summary Offshore South Africa, Outeniqua basin is well known for being exposed to harsh weather and sea state conditions. Moreover, on the top of these challenging conditions, this area faces the second strongest oceanic current namely the Agulhas current. It is in this new frontier area that, following the Brulpadda-1AX discovery, Total E&P has started an ambitious 3D seismic survey exploration program in its 11B&12B operated block. This seismic survey program which started in 2019 and has just been completed in April 2020. Thanks to a suitable survey design, efficient survey preparation and proper definition of the operations criteria, nearly 3000sqkm of 3D seismic data have been acquired.