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Business Writer
Invictus Energy, which is exploring for oil and gas in Muzarabani, has commenced ground breaking and clearance at the seismic camp location ahead of the arrival of equipment and crew for the next stage of the its oil and gas discovery journey.
Through its Twitter handle, the company said once the camp has been constructed, it will begin training 80 local personnel for the field campaign.
A field campaign refers to the seismic data acquisition campaign, according to managing director Scott Macmillan.
“We will be out in the project area shooting 2D seismic data for a few months. We’ve started preparing the field camp for the operations which will involve about 100 people,” Macmillan said.
Invictus recently awarded Canadian firm Polaris Natural Resources a contract to undertake seismic survey (gathering earth vibrations).
The firm will use the data gathered from the seismic survey programme to select sites on which oil and gas test wells would be drilled starting in October this year.
Bongani Ndlovu