Mexico Licensing Round

Mexico has begun the process of launching its first international bidding round – see http://www.cnh.gob.mx. This marks a historic opening of the petroleum exploration and production industry in Mexico to private investment since the country’s oil sector was nationalized in the 1930s.

Following an Initial Round Zero stage, which saw Pemex receive an allocation of 83% of discovered 2P reserves and 21% of known prospective resources, a second Round One stage gets underway in November 2014, with data-room access beginning in mid-January 2015 for those companies which satisfy the pre-qualification criteria associated with each of the designated bidding areas.

Round One involves a total of 169 blocks – 109 “Exploration” + 60 “Exploitation” blocks – with the addition of 10 contract areas which Pemex intends to bring into the Round One framework in order to seek farm-in partners.

See a preview of the blocks being offered in Mexico’s first international licensing round in our Interactive Licensing Round Map.

Lynx Interactive Bid Round Map

Mexico Round 1 blocks – Lynx Interactive Bid Round Map

This map will be updated as we learn more about Round One details. Please note that while care was taken in the preparation of the map, it is not authoritative and is included here for general reference purposes only.  Please refer to the CNH website as a definitive point of reference.

To help companies evaluating an entry into Mexico, Lynx is offering a Mexico GIS Dataset as an ArcGIS Desktop project, which provides a number of important G&G layers to set the framework for closer analysis of each of the open block areas.  The slideshow below gives a preview of some of the layers included in the project.

Lynx is also available to help companies with the task of with data integration and analogue-to-digital reconstruction (seismic and well log vectorization) work as might be encountered during this bid round.

Please contact us for further details

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Introducing iSeisview – the Lynx Web Seismic Viewer

iSeisview is a new web-enabled seismic viewer app developed by Lynx. The application works with industry-standard SEG-Y and enables interactive viewing of 2D and 3D seismic trace data via a standard web browser. iSeisview provides a secure and fast way of streaming seismic, and has been developed to facilitate improved end-user access to real-time trace data for the following scenarios:

  • Corporate intranets and shared portals
  • Web maps and enterprise GIS applications
  • Virtual Data Rooms for Farm-outs and Licensing Rounds
  • Presenting newly acquired seismic spec data

iSeisview builds on Lynx’s comprehensive experience of working with seismic data, and provides new ways of integrating your company seismic data with your web mapping applications.

The Lynx Web Seismic Viewer supports all common desktop browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP), plus the Safari and Google Chrome browsers on Apple iPad.

See the Lynx Web Seismic Viewer in action in these two demo websites:

Users can interactively zoom and pan seismic lines, choose from a range of familiar display styles and scales, and change the trace display amplitude using touch-friendly buttons in the seismic viewer toolbar.

iSeisview requires no end-user configuration and no browser plugins. The browser client uses native HTML5 and Javascript/AJAX for seamless display of seismic data. A user just clicks on a link to launch the seismic viewer.

Seismic Data Security

Distributed users need access to centrally stored seismic data. Transmitting seismic data via slow or unreliable network connections for ‘thick-client’ display is not always desirable or practical. By utilising iSeisview, your SEG-Y data is securely stored as standard SEG-Y files on your firewalled web server. The digital seismic trace data are never exposed directly to the browser client: the browser receives auto-generated cacheable image tiles which are reassembled in the browser to display the requested seismic line. Server-side configuration allows the administrator to restrict the permitted display scales and zoom levels if required.

iSeisview Server Configuration

System Requirements [updated Sept 2023]:

  • Microsoft Windows Server
  • Apache Tomcat 8 (or newer)
  • Java JRE 8 (Java or OpenJDK)
  • Optional database – Oracle Spatial 11g R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (or newer), PostgreSQL 9 (or newer)

iSeisview Components:

  • Server – Windows console-mode (32bit) executable generates image tiles from SEG-Y files
  • Server – Java servlet – manage incoming requests for seismic line metadata and image tiles, manage server-side image tile cache
  • HTML5 – client browser – Javascript/CSS seismic viewer – requests seismic line shot/trace/time metadata and image tiles, re-assemble the image tiles for display

Data Prerequisites:

  • Seismic 2D data files in SEG-Y format
  • Seismic metadata (line-name, shotpoint range, time range, SEGY file path etc) in a database table or CSV file
  • Optional seismic locations in KML or database spatial format for line intersection display

The ‘out of the box’ configuration provides basemaps from Bing or OpenStreetMap, and a searchable and sortable list of your seismic lines. Alternatively, use a custom configuration to add direct links to seismic lines from an existing web map by using links like this:

http://data.lynxinfo.co.uk/apps/iseisview/SWApproachesSeismic?request=getSeisview&lineId=20690

Each line has a unique Line ID number, as listed in your seismic metadata table. You can use this Line ID to generate URLs dynamically for your existing web map.

You can add many different seismic datasets to iSeisview; each distinct dataset can be published as a separate service. Each service has independent request and server-side tile cache management.

Licensing and Deployment Options

  • iSeisview Deployment License – take advantage of full integration with your existing web mapping applications. Deploy to your own server or a cloud-based server. Use the Javascript API to create a customised seismic viewer, or modify the CSS style of the existing viewer.
  • iSeisview Hosting – for short-term websites (eg farm-outs and other virtual data rooms), Lynx will host your seismic data, and provide a secure website for display of your seismic data using iSeisview. We will work with you to provide the level of customisation you require for your website – from a corporate logo and additional map layers with linked information to user authentication and activity logging.

Contact us for more information about these licensing options, or for a more in-depth discussion about either the technical implementation of the Lynx Web Seismic Viewer, or the ways in which you can use it to improve access to your seismic data within your organisation.

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Lynx Information Systems will be exhibiting at The 13th HGS/PESGB Conference on African E&P in September

Lynx Information Systems will be exhibiting at the upcoming 13th HGS/PESGB Conference on African E&P between the 9th & 10th September at The Westin Houston, Memorial City, 945 Gessner Road, Houston, Texas.

Lynx has contributed to this event ever since its inauguration, with talks, exhibits and through sponsorship.

Please do stop by our booth and talk to us about all the latest developments in our geophysical, GIS and software services. We have also updated all our North, West and East African GIS Exploration Advisers, which are GIS-enabled regional reports using industry standard ESRI ArcGIS software. Lynx works with established geological consultants with experience of specific regions, to build a coherent synthesis, valuable to the exploration geologist and new ventures entrant.

The Lynx team will be more than happy to run through a live demonstration of all our latest products and services.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Croatia Onshore and Offshore Licensing Rounds 2014

The Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency has launched its first onshore and offshore licensing rounds.

The 1st Onshore License Round comprises 6 exploration blocks of approximately 15000 sq km in the Slavonia region covering the counties of Virovitica-Podravina, Požega-Slavonia, Brod-Posavina, Osijek-Baranja and Vukovar. Closing date for tender submissions is 18th February 2015.

The 1st Offshore License Round comprises 29 exploration blocks in the Adriatic Sea covering approximately 36823 sq km. Closing date for tender submissions is 3rd November 2014.

Croatia Onshore and Offshore Licensing Rounds 2014

View the offered blocks and download shapefiles of the blocks on our Interactive Bid Rounds Map.

Croatia has extensive legacy seismic data coverage over the offshore and onshore areas in these licensing rounds. If you possess seismic hardcopy data, please talk to us about getting your seismic data vectorised.

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76th EAGE Conference & Exhibition Amsterdam, 16-19th June 2014

Lynx Information Systems will be exhibiting at the upcoming 76th EAGE Conference & Exhibition in Amsterdam on the 16-19th June.

Please do stop by our booth, 3146 and talk to us about all the latest developments in our geophysical, GIS and software services. We have also updated all our GIS Exploration Advisers, which are GIS-enabled regional reports using industry standard ESRI ArcGIS software. Lynx works with established geological consultants with experience of specific regions, to build a coherent synthesis, valuable to the exploration geologist and new ventures entrant.

The Lynx team will be more than happy to run through a live demonstration of all our latest products and services.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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HGS International Dinner – Exploration for Cretaceous Deep-water Reservoirs in the Circum-Caribbean Region: Historical Review and Expectations for the Future

Lynx Information Systems Inc will have a ‘vendor corner’ presence at the forthcoming Houston Geological Society International Dinner event on Monday, 9th June at the Hilton Houston Westchase on Westheimer Rd. The focus of the event will be a talk by Bob Erich and Francis Inniss of PanAtlantic Exploration entitled ‘Exploration for Cretaceous Deep-water Reservoirs in the Circum-Caribbean Region: Historical Review and Expectations for the Future‘. Of topical interest, Lynx will be showcasing details of a recently initiated project to build a national seismic repository on behalf of the Government of Belize, which aims to make accessible some 10,000 Kms of both legacy and modern 2D seismic data for a country with a newly invigorated exploration sector. The ‘Belize Seismic Repository‘ – which will make use of Lynx’ expertise to vectorize and reprocess hardcopy seismic records, alongside data management practices established & proven by Lynx in its 20-year running of the UK Onshore Geophysical Library – is scheduled to go ‘live’ via a dedicated map-based portal by the end of August 2014. Also of note to explorers with interests in South America, is news of another project being instigated by Lynx to create an Exploration Fabric of South America (EFSA) GIS resource, which follows in the path of the successful Exploration Fabric of Africa (EFA) project which sought to update the distinguished mapping work of the late Ed Purdy.

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AAPG Datapages – Launch of Data Exploration Objects website

The AAPG Datapages Data Exploration Objects (DEO) website (deo.datapages.com) was launched at the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition in Houston, Texas in April 2014. DEO provides interactive map-based access to articles published by the AAPG and its partner organisations, and allows subscribers to download georectified map images from figures in these articles. The full digital archive of AAPG journals and articles stretches back to 1922, and the DEO website currently provides access to figures and articles back to 1989, with ongoing plans to extend the depth and breadth of available data.

Lynx is proud to be a technology partner in this project, working with Datapages to catalog the AAPG journal digital archive and build the website providing map-based access to a growing archive of reference materials.

Feel free to explore the DEO website, and request a test drive for a temporary subscription.

The DEO website was built by Lynx using our Lynx Resource Portal (LRP) framework, utilising ESRI’s ArcGIS for Server platform. The LRP can be implemented as a web portal for data-rooms, farmouts and national archives, or as part of your company intranet to provide online visual access to geophysical and geological data including maps, wells and 2D and 3D seismic data.

If you are interested in implementing the LRP with in your organisation, contact us, and we will be happy to discuss your requirements.

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UK 28th Seaward Licensing Round

The 28th Seaward Licensing Round was launched by the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) on 24th January 2014. Details of the regulatory issues, and offshore acreage available can be found here.

These PDF maps from DECC show the seaward acreage on offer:

  1. Northern North Sea
  2. Central North Sea
  3. Southern North Sea
  4. Irish Sea and Morecambe Bay
  5. West of Hebrides
  6. South West Approaches
  7. English Channel

The deadline for licence applications is 2pm on 25th April 2014.

Lynx has over 25,000km of 2D seismic data in the South West Approaches, offered for sale in partnership with DECC and the Office of Public Sector Information. Explore the seismic data using our new interactive web seismic viewer by clicking this link:

http://data.lynxinfo.co.uk/apps/iseisview/SWApproachesSeismic

If you would like any more information about either the SW Approaches seismic data package, or the web seismic viewer, please contact us.

 

 

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Algeria – ALNAFT Announces 4th Bid Round

On the 22nd of January 2014, the Agence Nationale pour la Valorisation des Ressources en Hydrocarbures (ALNAFT) announced a new bid round with 31 blocks open for bidding. All of the blocks are onshore totalling over 462000 square kilometers.

Algeria_4th_round

The schedule for the bid round is as follows: first a general presentation will be made on March 3rd 2014, followed by a data room session from March 17th to 22nd 2014, then clarification meetings from the 24th of March to the 29th of May 2014. On the 30th of June 2014 ALNAFT will transmit the final contractions, submission of contracts and bids starts August 6th at 10am and close on the 5th of September 2014 at 9:00 am local time. Please contact ALNAFT for more information about the schedule.

To download the block boundaries on offer as an ESRI shapefile, please use our interactive Bid Rounds map.

Lynx Information Systems sells a major, in-depth “GIS Exploration Adviser and Hydrocarbon Potential Report” for Algeria. This in-depth ArcGIS-enabled report and database (with supplementary onshore 2D seismic data) covers all the major producing and frontier basins, and has informed many IOCs in their new ventures exploration. For more information contact lynx@lynxinfo.co.uk, or view the Algeria page on our website

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Egypt – EGAS & EGPC Announce Bid Round starting December 30th, 2013

Just before the end of the year, the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation announced a new bid round with 20 blocks open for bidding. EGAS released 2 onshore and 5 offshore blocks in the Nile Delta region. While EGPC released 15 blocks, 5 offshore in the Suez region and 10 in the Western Desert region. The combined area of all the blocks is over 56,000 sq km.

Egypt_2013_Bid_Round_2

The bid round is scheduled to close at noon on Monday 19th of May 2014. More official information from EGAS and EGPC.

To download the block boundaries on offer as an ESRI shapefile, please enter your details before clicking on the link.

EGAS_EGPC_2013_Bid_Round.zipshapefile containing open block boundaries for Egyptian EGAS & EGPC Bid Round 2013 (approx 11kb)

Note: these block boundaries are not definitive, and are intended only as a guide. The blocks have been digitised by Lynx, and may differ in places from those defined by the governing body.

Lynx Information Systems and its co-venturer Fairway Exploration sell a major, in-depth “GIS Exploration Adviser and Hydrocarbon Potential Report” for Egypt. This in-depth ArcGIS-enabled report and database (with supplementary onshore 2D seismic data) covers all the major producing and frontier basins, and has informed many IOCs in their new ventures exploration. Lynx have recently finished the 2013 Update for the Egypt GIS Exploration Adviser, for more information contact lynx@lynxinfo.co.uk, or view the Egypt page on our website

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Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year from All at Lynx Information Systems

Lynx Information Systems would like to wish you all every happiness this holiday season and throughout the coming year.

Our sincere thanks for your goodwill and loyalty throughout the past year and we look forward to working with you next year.

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The UK Onshore Geophysical Library (UKOGL) will be Exhibiting at the PESGB PROSPEX 2013 in London

The UK Onshore Geophysical Library (UKOGL) will be exhibiting at the PESGB PROSPEX 2013 in London on 11th & 12th December at the Business Design Centre, Islington.

Please come along and visit us at the UKOGL Booth, and see how the Lynx Resource Portal (LRP) has been successfully used in the daily running of the UK Onshore Geophysical Library on behalf of the UK Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC).

Please visit www.ukogl.org.uk/info.html to view a great example of an interactive WebGIS with live access to seismic and well data.

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Lynx Web Seismic Viewer – live preview

Lynx is pleased to announce the first preview of the Lynx Web Seismic Viewer. A live preview is available here:

http://data.lynxinfo.co.uk/apps/iseisview/NetherlandsSeismic (14/03/2014 – viewer updated to version 1.10)

This is a new web server application for viewing 2D seismic lines in a web browser, with interactive display and scaling options. Seismic viewer windows can be launched from a seismic basemap or from a searchable list of seismic lines.

The screenshots above show:

  1. seismic basemap (using OpenLayers framework) with interactive seismic viewer window
  2. full-screen seismic display
  3. multiple seismic viewer windows open simultaneously
  4. searchable list of seismic lines, choice of seismic display styles

The web seismic viewer can be integrated into your existing web mapping applications built with OpenLayers, Google Maps or the ArcGIS for Server Javascript API, or it can be configured as an independent web application using seismic locations in KML format or read directly from Oracle Spatial. Server-side deployment requires a Java servlet container such as Apache Tomcat, running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2012.

The seismic data is stored in SEG-Y format on the web server, and the seismic viewer servlet transmits image tiles of the seismic line from a dynamic cache to the browser client.

Server-side configuration gives full control over the display styles, scales and zoom levels permitted on the browser client. This makes the viewer ideal for data-room scenarios where access to the digital data must be protected, or for seismic QC on a corporate intranet.

The current preview version is optimised for Windows desktop browsers – Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer 8+. Support for tablets and mobile devices will be added soon.

The web seismic viewer is ideal for virtual data rooms and corporate intranets.

Please contact us for more technical details, or for commercial licensing information.

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EPUG 2013 – Lynx will be exhibiting at the ESRI European Petroleum User Group Conference November 2013 in London

Lynx Information Systems will be exhibiting at the ESRI European Petroleum User Group at the Congress Centre in London on the 14th-15th November EPUG 2013

Please come along and chat to us about our latest software, geophysical and GIS services, and the latest developments of our new Lynx Resource Portal. The LRP is used to successfully manage the UK Onshore Geophysical Library UKOGL on behalf of the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change DECC. Lynx can implement this technology into your organisation to manage and distribute all your E & P data. The Lynx team would be more than happy to run you through a live demonstration of this as well as all our latest products and services.

Lynx will also be hosting at the The Museum Tavern for Thursday nights pub crawl event. Don’t forget to collect your complimentary Lynx drinks vouchers from us on Thursday. We look forward to seeing you all there from 19:30pm onwards.

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HGS International Dinner – Straddling the Basin Boundary in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon: Contrasting Structural Style, Trapping Styles and Reservoirs

Lynx will have a Vendor Corner stand at this talk by Dr Scott Thornton of PanAtlantic Exploration Company, on Monday October 14th. On display will be the latest version of our West Africa Exploration Adviser GIS study, which provides a systematic exploration database and wide G&G interpretation of the West African margin.

See here for more details.

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