The need to expand exploration has become critical to address Indonesia’s increasing demand for hydrocarbons. New frontier exploration areas are being considered to replace aging fields and address the declining reserves. These areas of interest are believed to have significant hydrocarbon potential but the geology is not entirely understood. In an effort to help oil & gas companies evaluate this region's full potential, ION developed JavaSPAN.
JavaSPAN is a basin-wide, ultra-deep regional seismic data program and geologic study that extends from Madura Island, East Java to south of Sulawesi and north into the Makassar Straits. ION worked closely with regional experts to design a survey to evaluate the petroleum systems of this area and highlight prospective basins of the region. The program provides insight into the relationships between the basins and builds a consistent stratigraphic framework for a better understanding of new and existing play types.
JavaSPAN contains approximately 10,000 km of new 2D high-quality data acquired using up to 9 km long streamer offsets and 18 second record lengths. Advanced processing and depth imaging technologies are used to process the data and deliver a structural framework in both time and depth domains.
Key program components include:
- Transects key geologic features, placing them in a basin wide context
- Evaluated deepwater and deep target plays
- Tie key wells
- 9,818 km of 2D seismic data acquired
- Up to 9,000 meter offsets and 18 second record time
- Depth and time deliverables
- Integrated geologic and geophysical interpretation
