Viridien: NCS Licensing Rounds

We are committed to supporting all APA 2023 awarded companies with our best-in-class subsurface data to help reduce risk and encourage activity

In the last decade, there have been more discoveries in the Norwegian North Sea than in any other region on the NCS. As the importance of infrastructure-led exploration (ILX) grows, CGG launched a multi-year streamer program in 2020 using triple-source and multi-sensor streamer technology as well as new OBN acquisitions to meet this increasing demand for high-quality seismic data in the Northern Viking Graben (NVG) and Southern Viking Graben (SVG). The final deliverables include NVG dual-azimuth seismic data, NVG Hybrid data optimizing full-waveform inversion (FWI) through sparsely distributed nodes combined with streamer acquisition, two recent OBN surveys in the SVG and the new 2024 NVG EW data

See our Earth Data coverage for the Northern Viking Graben and Southern Viking Graben, Barents Sea, and Central North Sea.

Viridien has been on the NCS from the start, pioneering seismic technology and geoscience integration

Whether it’s prospecting for natural resources or subsurface carbon storage sites, Viridien provides the highest-quality images of the subsurface and an integrated geoscience approach to reservoir characterization to help you confidently explore, rank and de-risk licensing opportunities.

Carbon storage licensing

For the fifth time, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has announced acreage for CO₂ storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, and in 2022, the NSTA commenced the first carbon storage licensing round, awarding offshore acreage for CO₂ appraisal and storage licensing as part of UK decarbonization incentives.

Viridien is well-positioned to support continued carbon storage licensing in the region with long-standing subsurface expertise, storage evaluation, reservoir modeling, engineering, instrumentation and monitoring.