OREANDA-NEWS. The first shot was acquired on Spectrum’s ground-breaking Multi-Client land seismic survey in Lebanon. This initial line of acquisition is located in the Batroun region of the country, a symbolic gesture from Caretaker Energy Minister Gebran Bassil who was born in the city of Batroun.

Spectrum holds a contract with the Ministry of Energy and Water to acquire up to 500 km of Multi-Client 2D land data. The first phase of acquisition is expected to continue until November when the winter rain season will halt activities. Phase 2 will commence early 2014.

The survey covers an area which has never been seismically surveyed. Therefore, no other data of this kind currently exists. The 7 wells drilled in the region do show some hydrocarbon indicators in the Cretaceous or Jurassic sections and many analogues can be made with Syria’s Palmyride Trough to the North.