Petrobras Positioning Contract for Veripos

Veripos has been awarded a three-year contract by the Survey Department of Petroléo Brasileiro S/A (Petrobras) for provision of high-accuracy GNSS positioning services in support of rig moves as well as operation aboard sixteen specialist support vessels engaged in pipelay, anchor-handling and flowline installation operations.

Under the contract, Veripos will provide its high-precision Standard GPS augmentation service with a typical correction update rate of 15 seconds. Associated hardware supplies include LD3-D integrated mobile demodulators for use in conjunction with Petrobras-provided GPS receivers plus, UHF receivers for accessing both the Brazilian company's own reference network and Veripos Standard service signals.
Supplementary facilities to be provided by Veripos cover the provision of locally-based GNSS technician services for all support requirements, including mobilisations and any site-specific training.