Seismic activity is picking up pace off Brazil, as companies try to take advantage of a growing number of licensing rounds scheduled for the next few years, writes Fabio Palmigiani.
Players including TGS, Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) and CGG have so far this year submitted environmental plans to regulator Ibama requesting to shoot a total of eight seismic surveys across the Brazilian coast, according to documents obtained by Upstream.