Magseis has awarded its Red Sea contract to Sonardyne.
The Norwegian seabed seismic services company selected Sonardyne to provide the acoustic positioning equipment for its deepwater ocean bottom seismic survey of the Red Sea.
The nine-month project will involve the deployment of a large network of ocean bottom recording nodes, each of which will be accurately positioned using Sonardyne’s Ranger 2 USBL (Ultra-Short BaseLine) and Small Seismic Transponder (SST) technologies.
Trevor Barnes, sales manager at Sonardyne said: “Magseis have been long term users of our technology and we’re naturally very pleased that they have chosen to increase their investment with this major order for acoustic positioning and release equipment.
“We are continuously evolving our subsea technology to match the ever increasing demand for higher positional accuracy and increased measurement speed so that seismic operators can generate more detailed reservoir information whilst minimising cost.”
For this summer’s Red Sea survey, Magseis will deploy its proprietary Marine Autonomous Seismic System (MASS), which uses thousands of small nodes to create a grid pattern of receivers on the seabed.