Somalia

Somalia – Overview

For over two decades, Canesis Data has specialized in a unique mission: restoring “lost” exploration archives and transforming them into workstation-ready digital assets. Nowhere is this work more critical than in Somalia, where decades of civil unrest led to the destruction of central archives, leaving high-quality data in extremely short supply.
Today, we are proud to offer a comprehensive and definitive Somali exploration database to the industry, encompassing thousands of line kilometers of modernized seismic and digitized well control.
Overview of Somalia seismic and well data.

Our current holdings provide a basin-wide evaluation framework that includes:
  • Extensive Vectorized Seismic: We have successfully restored and migrated a massive grid of 2D seismic across every major province. This includes the Hafun-Gumbah Project (3,339 km), the high-impact GEMS Prospects Area (2,036 km), and significant coverage in the Mudugh (2,165 km) and Lamu-Juba (2,212 km) basins.
  • Deep Well Control: Our database features digital logs and technical reports for 50 pivotal wells across the margin. From the deepwater insights of Garad Mare-1 to onshore calibrations in the Nogal and Daroor basins, we provide the LAS curves and geological reports necessary to de-risk reservoir and source presence.
  • Integrated Potential Fields: To help resolve complex basement architecture, we offer digitized and gridded gravity and magnetic datasets derived from historical surveys, such as the 1974 aeromagnetic campaign.
  • Workstation-Ready Deliverables: All our data is delivered in modern formats like SEGY and P190, ensuring it can be immediately integrated into modern interpretation software.
The value of this modernized archive is already recognized by the world’s leading energy companies licensing our Somali packages.


As Somalia re-emerges as one of the world’s last true hydrocarbon frontiers, having access to the right data is the first step toward discovery.

For detailed information on the Hafun-Bay/Gumbah project click HERE

For detailed information on the GEMS Area Project click HERE

Gravity and Magnetism Surveys

Canesis is currently digitising, combining and gridding two aeromagnetism surveys and a gravity survey from the north of Somalia.
The illustrations show the coverage areas of the overlapping aeromagnetism surveys and an example from the Sagaleh Basin gravity survey.