Offshore staff
BERGEN, Norway – TGS and Schlumberger have awarded Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS an ocean bottom seismic ROV project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
This will be the company’s first OBS ROV survey and will leverage its strengths in source capabilities, operational scale, and flexibility.
Two Shearwater vessels, the SW Diamond and SW Emerald, will be used for the project, equipped with three high-capacity sources each composed of three sub-arrays. This investment in a new source configuration will allow two source vessels to be used instead of three for the survey, with a consequent increase in efficiency and reduction in operational greenhouse gas emissions, the company said.
The survey is expected to start in 2Q 2020 and is scheduled to be completed over about four months.
The OBS ROV crew complements the company’s ocean bottom cable and ocean bottom node crews and marks its presence in all sectors of the ocean bottom seismic market, in acquisition and processing. The company will have three OBS crews operating in 2020.
CEO Irene Waage Basili said: “By adding deepwater OBS ROV operations we are now the only company able to offer a complete portfolio of towed streamer and ocean bottom seismic marine acquisition and processing geophysical services.”
03/09/2020
