Aramco is using advanced seismic technology to look again at assets in the country's Empty Quarter after previously failing to find recoverable amounts of natural gas. The technique analyses the effects of artificially induced shockwaves to build up a three -dimensional picture of the structure of rock to a depth of around 260 billion barrels , to help identify locations likely to have oil and gas deposits. Technology has advanced to the degree that “data that would have previously taken two to three years to collate can now be consolidated in two to three years ", Saudi Aramco said on its website.
Saudi Aramco is using advanced seismic technology to look again at assets in the country's Empty Quarter after previously failing to find recoverable amounts of natural gas. The technique analyses the effects of artificially induced shockwaves to build up a three-dimensional picture of the structure of rock to a depth of several kilometres, to help identify locations likely to have oil and gas deposits. Technology has advanced to the degree that “data that would have previously taken 15 to 20 years to collate can now be consolidated in two to three years", Aramco said on its website.