The 7086km survey covers the Palawan, Mindoro-Cuyo, Sulu Sea and Sandakan basins and is being carried out with Seabird Exploration and the Philippines Department of Energy.

The Pala Sulu seismic survey will provide a consistent link between the basins to create a uniform stratigraphic framework.

It has also been designed to better define the tectonic framework of the Philippines' most important petroleum basins and to improve the imaging of the lower sedimentary sections and basement.

A full set of survey data will be produced to allow for further studies, such as basin modelling, amplitude versus offset and inversion.