Contract for WesternGeco Asia Pacific

WesternGeco, the world's largest seismic company, provides comprehensive worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring, and development services, with the most extensive seismic crews and data processing centers in the industry, as well as the world's largest multi-client seismic library. Services range from 3D and time-lapse (4D) seismic surveys to multi-component surveys for delineating prospects and reservoir management.

WesternGeco operates in every continent and this contract, covering the Australasian region, can require MSI to provide personnel and equipment (current meters, current profilers, data buoys, acoustic releases, underwater modems, satellite locator beacons and mooring components) for projects in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Philippines, India, Vietnam, China, Japan and Thailand.

The partnership between MSI and Orogenics GeoExpro has previously been successful and, in this particular case, the expertise of both companies complement each other perfectly with MSI providing the entire oceanographic component of the contract and Orogenics GeoExpro providing the bathymetric and side scan data acquisition as well as the local logistical support and expertise.