Gibdock, a shipyard located in Gibraltar, between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, has completed a refit of the seismic vessel WG Cook for WesternGeco, reflecting the yard’s growing ability to attract return customers in the specialised offshore vessel market. WG Cook is one of six 12-streamer 3D seismic ships delivered to the owner in 2010. The 19-day [...]
Nova Scotia, one of Canada’s three Maritime provinces, welcomed Shell Canada exploration vessels Saturday, May 18, signalling the company’s renewed interest in exploring the province’s offshore. Economic and Rural Development and Tourism Minister Graham Steele, on behalf of Premier Darrell Dexter, greeted seven Shell Canada 3D offshore exploration vessels, which will begin offshore exploration surveying [...]
Rolls-Royce has delivered advanced deck machinery system for a highly specialised new Amazon-class seismic research vessel for WesternGeco, which is under construction at Flensburger Shipyard in Germany. The contract includes the supply of a control and back deck system for towing and handling of 18 streamer cables and a range of towing and handling equipment [...]
Kongsberg Evotec AS, a Kongsberg Maritime company, will provide the complete back deck solution for handling of up to 20 streamers simultaneously aboard a GC Rieber owned new-build seismic exploration vessel, awarded by builder Kleven. The ST324XT designed by Skipsteknisk in Ålesund, will be built at Kleven’s shipyard Myklebust Verft in Sande, Norway, and will [...]
New Zealand Oil & Gas has announced that acquisition of Karoro 3D seismic in PEP 52593 (Taranga) finished on time and incident free just before midnight last night. The partners in the permit, Octanex and New Zealand Oil & Gas, were required to acquire 225 square kilometres of 3D seismic data in the 3500 square [...]
WesternGeco yesterday announced that it has begun acquisition of a major multiclient seismic survey offshore Mozambique using the ObliQ sliding-notch broadband acquisition and imaging technique. The technique optimizes the recorded bandwidth of the seismic signal enabling more detailed imaging of the subsurface and more reliable extraction of rock properties. “This seismic survey is optimally located [...]
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has Awarded Kongsberg (KOG) owned company Kongsberg Maritime contracts of more than 50 MUSD for technical systems delivery to two new Seismic survey vessels ordered by Petroleum Geo Services (PGS). The scope of supply covers integrated navigation systems, Dynamic Positioning (DP) and thruster systems, and extensive back-deck handling systems for PGS Ramform Titan-class vessels 3 & 4 [...]
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ViaLogy announces today that it has signed a Business and Technical Collaboration Agreement with CGG (CGG) of France, one of the world’s largest geosciences companies. It provides ViaLogy with global sales and services locations, access to CGG customers, assistance in scaling ViaLogy’s QuantumRD technology to large geographical areas, and specialized high tech data processing to [...]
Fairfield Energy, the North Sea-focused independent oil and gas company, has announced the start of a 400km² Broadband 3D seismic survey over their recently awarded 27th Round Licence P2089 Block 43/28. The survey will be acquired by Polarcus and will fulfil the firm commitment work programme on the licence, where wholly owned subsidiary Fairfield Cedrus [...]
The 24-streamer Ramform Titan seismic vessel was named today at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries yard in Nagasaki, Japan. The new ship, owned by PGS, a seismic specialist from Norway, will, according to PGS, be the most powerful and efficient marine seismic acquisition vessel ever and the widest ship in the world at the waterline. Safety and [...]
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