North America Onshore Basins

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The Lower 48 remains home to the world’s most active and prolific unconventional plays, spanning every major producing basin. TGS seismic libraries equip customers with subsurface intelligence and provide the inputs needed to drive better drilling decisions.

De-Risk Stacked Pay Exploration Across North American Onshore

TGS offers more than 30,000 square miles of modern 3D seismic data across the most active onshore oil and gas plays in North America, spanning the Permian, Anadarko, and Appalachian basins in the U.S. and the Duvernay and Montney in Canada, with active expansion into the Uinta and Rocky Mountain basins. TGS delivers high resolution subsurface intelligence to operators and explorers working the unconventionals space.

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Seismic Coverage Across Key North American Basins

TGS multi-client seismic and well data covers the Permian, Utica, Williston, Anadarko, Duvernay & Montney and North Slope basins. Hover over a basin to see TGS data coverage.

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Pontiac 3D is TGS’ newest high-resolution seismic acquisition in the Permian Basin, built for horizontal development of the Spraberry and Wolfcamp and emerging deeper Barnett and Devonian plays. Multi-Parameter FWI and DeepInvert™ imaging sharpen reservoir characterization along the Midland Basin and Central Basin Platform margin.

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ON Utica-1

The Utica trend in the Appalachian Basin continues to be an area of growth for TGS as operators expand across the play. The TGS Utica Merge 3D provides the most extensive continuous modern seismic coverage of the rich liquids trend across eastern Ohio.

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The Williston spans North Dakota, Montana and southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, with stacked Bakken and Three Forks targets. TGS pairs the industry’s largest well database with multi-client 3D on the Canadian side, giving operators production-driven screening and seismic context across the border.
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ON Anadarko

M&A is driving renewed investment in the SCOOP/STACK and Cherokee Granite Wash. TGS’ seismic footprint across the basin, helps operators navigate the evolving landscape and drill with confidence.

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Western Canada’s Montney and Duvernay liquids plays keep onshore activity vibrant, with operators focused on optimizing development drilling. TGS provides curated well data, production analytics and targeted land seismic across these key plays. The recent Dawson III 3D adds modern imaging, processed with Phase and AVO-compliant workflows, to the heart of the Montney.

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TGS’ new Alaska Regional 2D-Cubed unifies legacy 2D and 3D seismic into one regionally consistent volume, enabling basin-scale screening from onshore North Slope plays to offshore Beaufort and Chukchi opportunities. Great Bear Merge 3D adds a seamless, FWI-reprocessed regional 3D framework. 

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Turnkey Project Development

TGS turnkey project development is fully managed, end-to-end delivery of your onshore seismic project. We handle permitting, archaeological and environmental studies, acquisition, processing and imaging, and delivery of interpretation-ready data. You work with one accountable partner from kickoff to final deliverables, which reduces project risk.

  • One Accountable Partner
  • Faster, Lower-Risk Execution
  • Data Quality and Value

One Accountable Partner

One Accountable Partner

TGS manages every phase and every vendor. You don’t have to coordinate permitting, field crews, data management and processing teams yourself.

Faster, Lower-Risk Execution

Faster, Lower-Risk Execution

Integrated planning and a single workflow reduce handoff delays, permitting and compliance surprises, and schedule risk.

Data Quality and Value

Data Quality and Value

We design acquisition and processing together and draw on TGS’s regional data and imaging expertise. The final product is built for your objectives. Turnkey costs are provided up front, which reduces your exposure.

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Better Imaging: DM FWI and Pore Pressure Modeling 

To accurately image novel targets within onshore seismic surveys, TGS uses Dynamic Matching FWI (DM-FWI) workflows to produce high-resolution velocity models. In the Permian, where several dissolution zones are present, near-surface characterization is essential to high-end imaging at depth.

With an ongoing focus on operational efficiency, TGS has introduced vertical effective stress and lithology inversion derivatives as a tool to identify optimal landing zones and drilling hazards. These volumes help engineers quickly pinpoint overpressured benches and carbonate rafts, increasing yields and improving drilling efficiency.

Additional Insights

TGS Expands Alaska Subsurface Intelligence Portfolio with New Regional 3D and 2D-Cubed Products

Oct 2026 - TGS expands its Alaska portfolio with two new regional seismic products....

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Pontiac 3D: From Onshore Seismic to Reservoir Clarity and Beyond

Aug 2026 - A high-quality TGS land seismic dataset enhanced with advanced imaging, Multi-Parameter FWI and DeepInvert™ technology delivers greater reservoir characterization confidence in the Midland Basin....

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Enhanced Seismic Imaging in the Midland Basin with Multiparameter Full-Waveform Inversion

Jan 2026 - We introduce a multiparameter full-waveform inversion (FWI) approach for land seismic imaging that jointly estimates subsurface velocity and reflectivity...

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