Wood­side En­er­gy is card­ed to com­mence its Con­trolled Source Elec­tro­mag­net­ic (CSEM) sur­vey this month.

A re­lease from the En­er­gy Min­istry said the sur­vey will pro­vide valu­able in­for­ma­tion about the com­pa­ny’s Ca­lyp­so Project.

Ca­lyp­so sits with­in the Deep­wa­ter Block 23(a) and TTDAA 14 leased block, off­shore T&T where hy­dro­car­bons have been dis­cov­ered, the re­lease said.

It is the coun­try’s first ma­jor dis­cov­ery in this lo­ca­tion.

Dur­ing a tour of Wood­side’s Con­trolled Source Elec­tro­mag­net­ic Sur­vey ves­sel docked in Ch­aguara­mas, Ker­ry Nicholas, Su­per­in­ten­dent Seis­mic and Sur­vey Op­er­a­tions, ex­plained the sur­vey will cov­er at least 1600 square kilo­me­tres at a depth of 2200 me­tres and take ap­prox­i­mate­ly 70 days to com­plete af­ter which the da­ta gath­ered will be analysed by the tech­ni­cal ex­perts on the ves­sel.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young who was on the tour, stressed the im­por­tance of the project to T&T, say­ing it was an­oth­er crit­i­cal step for deep wa­ter re­source de­vel­op­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, this is the first time that this type of elec­tro­mag­net­ic sur­vey is be­ing con­duct­ed in the coun­try.

“It is be­ing done to plot the seabed in the deep wa­ter to gath­er nec­es­sary in­for­ma­tion for the de­vel­op­ment of Wood­side En­er­gy’s Ca­lyp­so Project,” the re­lease ex­plained.