Oil & Gas

Released Irish Seismic Data

Minimize drilling risk and downtime in Ireland with detailed seismic data

Are you ready for Europe's biggest frontier opportunity?

As the official agent for Ireland's Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, IHS Markit offers 350,000km of 2D and thirty six 3D released seismic data from offshore and onshore Ireland seismic surveys. With coverage of all major prospective basins, you can:

Access all available released seismic
Understand regional structure and source / reservoir distribution
Evaluate acreage
Generate prospects
Assess risk
Map faults and horizons
Identify hydrocarbon indicators such as gas chimneys
Analyze play fairways

Features/Format/Delivery

Application Integration

Directly load seismic into workstation interpretation software. IHS Markit can provide data preloaded into software from Kingdom by IHS Markit, shortening the exploration workflows and reducing data loading time

Industry standard SEG-Y
Post stack and migrated data
Reconstructed where original digital data not available
Navigation loaded to trace headers
Deliverable in Kingdom projects on demand

Ireland Prospectivity
- Giant fields such as Barryroe (1.8 bln bbl in place) and Corrib (1 TCF)
- Giant prospects (including Jurassic fault blocks to Cretaceous carbonates to Paleocene fans)
- Very poorly drilled (only 213 offshore wells)
- Basins include (areas are only Irish part)
  - Hatton (30,980 km2)
  - Rockall (182,300 km2)
  - Slyne (15,100 km2)
  - Porcupine (44,860 km2)
  - Clare (19,380 km2)
  - Celtic Sea Graben System (35,330 km2)
  - Goban Spur Province (39,920 km2) c.f. North Sea Central Graben 59,330 km2
  - Abundant source rocks, shows, gas chimneys
- Large variety of size of companies involved
- Opportunities to apply for open acreage, farm-in (including to drill-ready prospects) or participate in regular license rounds
- Cheap to enter
- Welcoming stable government

Coverage

Released seismic data is available for all of Ireland's prospective basins.

Format & Delivery

Available digitally in SEGY or hardcopy (and in Kingdom format upon request)
Offered on a per-line and per-survey basis
Delivered via FTP, DVD or USB hard drive

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