Viridien has commenced CDI25, a 6,555 km² seismic reimaging project in the Tano Basin, Côte d’Ivoire, “delivering a drill-ready multi-client dataset for explorers pursuing opportunities along the West African Atlantic margin”.
Fast-track results from the project are scheduled for Q4 2026 and final deliverables by Q2 2027.
“CDI25 is part of a larger Côte d’Ivoire subsurface reimaging programme that Viridien began four years ago, designed to systematically upgrade seismic data and interpretation confidence across the basin”, says Viridien, the Paris based Earth data company formerly known as CGG.
“The programme is applying Viridien’s processing and imaging workflows, including Ghost Wavefield Elimination (GWE), advanced de-multiple, and industry-leading Time-Lag Full-Waveform Inversion (TL-FWI), to improve bandwidth, enhance deep imaging, and sharpen structural and stratigraphic detail.
Upon completion of this latest project, the overall reimaging programme will deliver a seamless, basin-scale three dimensional (3D) seismic volume providing over 16,000 km² of coverage across the Tano Basin. The integrated dataset will significantly enhance prospectivity assessment and play understanding, providing critical subsurface insight into the recent discovery within the Calao Channel complex, while extending regional context into the adjacent acreage of the Baleine field to support lead maturation, de-risking, and further exploration delineation.
Dechun Lin, Head of Earth Data, Viridien, said: “The recent Murene South and Baleine field discoveries highlight the growing importance of Tano Basin and the industry value of our multi-year reimaging program. Viridien is proud to support exploration offshore Côte d’Ivoire with cutting-edge data that is generating new insights to reveal further opportunities in this prolific basin.”
