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Survey in Barents, Kara Seas Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), within the framework of an international sci- entiÞ c program, has acquired 8,840 line km of 2D data in the Russian Barents Sea and Kara Sea. The 2D survey, conduct- ed in partnership with Geology Without Limits (GWL), began in 2012, using the vessel Akademik Lazarev. This scientiÞ c research survey is part of a multi-year, long offset, reß ection seismic program. The scope of work included increasing knowledge of the regional geology, tying the sedimentary basins, exploring inter- esting geological structures and identify-ing potential well locations in the Barents and Kara Sea area. The scientiÞ c research conducted in 2012 showed that the north- ern part of the Kara Sea usually marked out as the Kara Plate is a promising pro-liferous region. Even at this early stage of exploration maturity, it is obvious that the area is quite promising relative to other prospects on the Russian Arctic Shelf and there are strong indications of oil domi-nance in hydrocarbon presence. The Kara Plate has, until recently, remained one of the least explored regions of the Barents- Kara Shelf. Geophysical investigations began during the 1970s and the Þ rst off- shore drilling started in the early 1980s, in this area which is ice-bound for the majority of the year. The Kara Sea is a complex mosaic of basins and platforms, having undergone intercontinental sedi- mentation from 240 million years ago to 60 million years ago, after which it bor- dered the developing Atlantic and Arctic oceans. The Þ rst datasets from this scien- tiÞ c research program are now available as of July 2013 and can be obtained by contacting the PGS MultiClient team at: Email: [email protected] www.seadiscovery.com MTR #7 (18-33).indd 31MTR #7 (18-33).indd 318/22/2013 10:34:58 AM8/22/2013 10:34:58 AM