Past Experience Profile

McGregor GeoScience has a wealth of experience in the acquisition and interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic for the purpose of geohazard identification.

McGregor has conducted 2D seismic surveys on the continental slope off Nova Scotia for pre-drilling, hazard evaluation and has also acquired deep-water, multichannel seismic along the Scotian and Newfoundland Slopes for the Geological Survey of Canada. McGregor Geoscience Limited has completed many seabed and subsurface surveys for the petroleum industry; off Eastern Canada, in the Beaufort Sea and internationally at several locations. Sample projects completed by McGregor GeoScience Limited include:

• Quality Control Monitor for 2D and 3D seismic acquisition offshore North America and Asia;

• Acquisition and processing of multibeam data on the Scotian Slope and Shelf;

• 3D seismic interpretation of Torbrook volume – Scotian Slope, 2001/02; EnCana Corp;

• 3D seismic interpretation of Newburn volume – Scotian Slope, 2002; Chevron Canada;

• 3D seismic interpretation of White Rose volume - for geohazards; Husky Oil;

• 3D seismic interpretation of Sweet Bay volume – for geohazards; Petro Canada

• 3D seismic interpretation of geohazards on the Hibernia 3D Seismic volume for Chevron;

• Scotian Slope wellsite surveys and interpretation:

• Acadia K-62 Site (866 metres depth)

• Shubenacadie H-11 (1475 metres depth)

• Tantallon M-41 (1516 metres depth)

• Scotian Slope, high-resolution seismic acquisition for Geological Survey of Canada;

• Compilation of shallow seismic data on Sable Island Bank for ExxonMobil;

• Four major site surveys on Grand Bank for the Jeanne d'Arc Basin Operating Group;

• Geohazard survey of a Hebron site for Chevron;

• Surveys of the West Bonne Bay and East Flying Foam sites for Amoco;

• Production Platform site surveys; Venture, North Triumph and Thebaud for the SOEP;

• Pipeline route survey; Thebaud to North Triumph; Sable Offshore Energy Inc.;

• Interpretation of Hibernia site survey seismic on Landmark workstation for HMDC.

• Data acquiaition, processing, interpretation and charting for numerous geohazard surveys in the Beaufort Sea – Amoco, Gulf, Esso

McGregor’s experience with the acquisition, processing and presentation of multibeam bathymetric data evolved through our collection of multibeam data and ground-truthing of the data for benthic habitat mapping, in concert with various members of the scallop fishing community in Nova Scotia. This project produced benthic classification and mapping of scallop beds for a more accurate and reliable method of fishing and resource management in scallop productive zones. This venture, commenced in 2000, resulted in the successful acquisition of 5,000 Sq. Km of multibeam bathymetry coverage on the upper Scotian Slope, and Scotian Shelf.