GC Rieber Shipping: Shearwater GeoServices enters deepwater OBS market with Gulf of Mexico award
GC Rieber Shipping ASA's 19% owned geoservices company Shearwater GeoServices ("Shearwater") is pleased to announce the award of a major Ocean Bottom Seismic deepwater ROV project by TGS and partner in the Gulf of Mexico, USA. The award confirms Shearwater's position as the leading geophysical service company.
This will be Shearwater's first OBS ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) survey and will leverage the company's strengths in source capabilities, operational scale and flexibility.
The OBS ROV crew complements Shearwater's Ocean Bottom Cable and Ocean Bottom Node crews and marks the company's presence in all sectors of the Ocean Bottom Seismic market, in acquisition and processing. Shearwater will have three OBS crews operating in 2020.
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 survey will commence in Q2 2020 and is scheduled to be completed over approximately four months.