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Survey evaluation & design
Geometry, fold, offset and azimuth modelled against the objective and the terrain, before a single flag is planted.
See the methodMuscat, Oman · Established 2011 · ISO 9001:2015
We read the ground
layer by layer.
Africa Geophysical Services designs, acquires and processes land seismic surveys across desert, dense forest, mountain, populated ground and shallow water — from Muscat to the Great Lakes.
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Who we are
An Omani-owned contractor
built for difficult ground.
AGS is a land seismic data acquisition and processing company headquartered in Muscat and working across East Africa, North Africa, the Gulf and beyond. We own our vibrators, our recording channels, our drilling rigs and our processing systems — and we recruit and develop local crews in every country we operate.
ISO 9001:2015Omani-ownedFounded 2011IMC GSL sister company
2011Founded in Muscat,
Omani-owned
Omani-owned
30+Years of land seismic
experience in leadership
experience in leadership
8Countries with offices
or operational bases
or operational bases
5Survey types — 2D, 3D,
3D-3C, 4D, 4D-3C
3D-3C, 4D, 4D-3C
What we do
From the first line on a map to a migrated volume.
Survey design, field acquisition, in-field quality control and office processing — run by one accountable company, so nothing is lost in the handover between contractors.
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Land seismic acquisition
2D, 3D, 3D-3C, 4D and 4D-3C on Sercel 428, ARIES and nodal spreads, energised by a wholly owned vibroseis fleet.
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Processing & in-field QC
Field processing travels with the crew; ProMAX office processing carries the data through statics, velocity and migration.
See the sequenceHow a survey is built
Scroll to lay the spread.
01 — Design the geometry
Receiver line interval, source line interval and bin size are set by the target depth and the resolution the objective needs.
02 — Survey the stations
RTK GPS positions every source and receiver station to centimetric accuracy, and records the terrain as it is, not as the map says.
03 — Lay the receivers
Cabled, distributed or cable-free nodal spreads, chosen by access, permitting and safety rather than by what is in the yard.
04 — Energise the source
Vibroseis sweeps or shot holes. Every source point illuminates the subsurface and is recorded across the live spread.
05 — Build the fold
Midpoints accumulate into bins. Fold is the number of traces that stack into each bin — and the reason a reflector survives noise.
Global reach
Across geographical boundaries.
Headquartered in the Sultanate of Oman, with operational bases and registered offices through East Africa, North Africa, the Gulf, Kurdistan, Türkiye and the United Kingdom — and the logistics to move crews and equipment between them.
Headquarters
Muscat, Oman
Registered office · operational base · logistics
Operational base
Tanzania
Registered office · logistical support
Operational base
Egypt
Registered office · logistical support
Operational base
United Kingdom
Logistics · IMC GSL, Sheffield
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Tell us the objective.
We will design the survey around it.
Send the basin, the target depth and the access constraints. A survey designer will come back with a geometry, a terrain plan and an honest view of what the ground will and will not give you.