I have Dawson Geophysical conducting a 3D survey on behalf of another company. They were open and willing to answer questions. Quality people.
However, two other companies who asked me to do surveys, and I either signed or verbally agreed, have not been forthcoming and do not return phone calls.
(I don’t know if it would be right to mention those two companies, but will accept advice about that.)
Could be that Dawson was the first one out of the gate and the others backed off once Dawson started work. Most companies that are interested in drilling do a lot of advance work first. Could just be timing with Covid-19 and the drop in oil prices and folks cutting their spending drastically. Some seismic shoots are proprietary and only belong to one company. Others are group or spec shoots and various operators will buy into them. Just a few ideas for the possible reasons.