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Mr Ming (Party Chief for EGS) briefing Mr Faure (Vice President of the Seychelles) and Mr Hammond (CEO of Cable & Wireless) about survey operations onboard the RV EGS Explorer
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Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks awarded EGS the landing site visits, inshore survey and offshore geophysical survey of the Seychelles East African Submarine cable system linking Port Victoria in the Seychelles to Dar es Salam in Tanzania . The SEAS system is the first fiber optic telecommunication cable linking the Seychelles with the rest of the world.
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The RV EGS Explorer in Port Victoria
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EGS carried out the landing site visits at both ends of the cable in January 2011 to validate the sites and followed with inshore surveys in early February 2011. EGS's dedicated deepwater survey vessel, the RV EGS Explorer , arrived in Port Victoria in mid-February to carry out the 2,000km long cable route survey between the Seychelles and Tanzania . The RV EGS Explorer is equipped with state of the art survey equipment to ensure that high resolution data is acquired in order to minimize any risks duration installation of the subsea plant or during its 25 years lifetime. A full armed security team was mobilized onboard the research vessel to protect the crew from potential pirate attacks. The survey was successfully completed by the end of February 2011.
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RV Ridley Thomas leaving Santiago de Cuba after completion
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Stuart, Florida, USA: EGS recently completed
two cable route surveys in the Caribbean. The first project,
ALBA-1 was awarded by Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks and
comprised links to Venezuela, Cuba and Jamaica. The survey
was completed in July 2010. The second project, East-West
Cable System was awarded by France Telecom Marine and completed
in September 2010. It comprised links between Jamaica, Dominican
Republic and the British Virgin Islands. Both projects were
successfully completed by the RV Ridley Thomas before the start of hurricane season, and supported by our
new EGS Americas project team out of Florida.
Florida, USA: EGS Americas has hit the ground running, or rather has hit
the water sailing! Since the opening of the new regional offices
in Seattle and Florida in early 2010, EGS Americas has been
full steam ahead with both cable and oil and gas survey work
in both the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. EGS President,
Deb Peat expressed great satisfaction in “EGS taking opportunities
to set the benchmark in delivery of high quality,real time,
and survey data to our new clients.”
Subic Bay, Philippines: Captain Rick Poole
and his team from EGS Marine have been very busy over the
last 6 months while they have travelled between Subic Bay,
Philippines, to Norway, China, Scotland and the UAE to bring
to fruition 3 new launches for the EGS Group. After extensive
re-fitting, the RV EGS Surveyor, a fully
kilted 2D seismic survey vessel is now undergoing trials in
the South China Sea, and will be servicing its first client
off the Philippines shortly.
The RV EGS Island Trader has already been
relaunched in the UAE as a specialist shallow water survey
boat capable of geophysical and geotechnical integrated surveys
for both the oil and gas and submarine cable markets.
Finally, RV EGS Pioneer, most recently purchased,
is completing its fit out in North Scotland before the end
of this year and will be a timely increase EGS’ capacity in
the North Sea in order to deal with the ever growing offshore
wind farm survey sector.
Abu Dhabi, UAE: EGS have recently established
a permanent base in the United Arab Emirates in order to offer
a better, local based, service to its clients across the Middle
East. EGS will base its regional headquarters in Abu Dhabi
and its marine logistics base in Ras Al Khaimer. We have registered
as EGS International Geological and Geophysical Consultants
LLC and can be reached at
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EGS IGGC
P.O. Box 43731
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Tel: +971 2 664 7998
Fax: +971 2 664 7816
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EGS Director, Dr. Dick Hale responsible for the Middle East
operations out of Abu Dhabi explains; “We are delighted after
so many years of working in the region, that we have been
able to establish a firm base in the UAE. Not only can we
better support our existing nearshore and offshore operations
across the gulf and along the East African coast, but we are
now closer to our key clients and will be able to offer them
an improved, more timely, and responsive service.”
Jakarta, Indonesia: PT EGS have continued
to enjoy success with the deep water geochemical piston sampling
and heat flow testing capability operating off our long term
charter vessel, the Baruna Jaya VIII.
Directors Kobi Braendli and Peter Bolsterli have been successful
in expanding the EGS capability and successfully completing
two substantial sampling surveys for Star Energy and Talisman
in the Natuna Sea and Makassar straight, Indonesia.
Dili, Timor Leste: EGS Asia with support
from both PTEGS and EGS Geotechnical, have successfully completed
one of the most challenging projects in recent times. The
task was to carry out an initial bathymetric, geophysical
and geotechnical inshore survey for 3 port locations along
the remote, southern coastline of Timor Leste.
With local land logistics support from their client, Toke
Oil and Gas SA, EGS had to mobilise their inshore vessels,
survey equipment, jack up barges and land drilling rigs from
overseas and manage a self contained, stand alone survey mission
for 60 days. EGS Geotechnical, Technical Director Jeff James
commented: ”to arrive in these unspoilt locations, with virtually
no land transport and carry out 3 detailed surveys in such
challenging circumstances, is a testament to the character,
commitment and professional excellence of the whole Toke -
EGS team. We are delighted to have provided the first series
of quality land and marine survey data for the future infrastructure
plans of the Government of Timor Leste."
Borden , Hampshire, UK: Stephen Hayes, Managing
Director of EGSi was delighted to report the recent success
of-Offshore Windfarm (OWF) projects in the North Sea, operating
from our long term charter, RV Wessex Explorer,
EGSi carried out pre-construction baseline surveys for the
Lincs, and post-construction monitoring for the Lynn and Inner
Dowsing (L&ID) installation.
Abu Dhabi, UAE: EGS Asia have snared another
three significant submarine cable projects - Tyco Telecommunications
recently awarded EGS the desktop study and route survey contract
for the Gulf Bridge International submarine telecommunication
cable system. EGS will be using their survey vessel RV
EGS Explorer for the deep water sections of the route
in the Arabian Sea, and trunk route within the Arabian Gulf.
EGS’ newly acquired shallow draft survey vessel will be used
to survey and act as the platform for geotechnical operations
along the very shallow water sections of the route approaches
to the landing points in Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
and Iraq. In addition to GBI, Tyco have also awarded EGS the
deep water survey work for the TATA Gulf Submarine Cable System
in the Arabian Sea.
Alcatel – Lucent have also awarded EGS the ALBA-1 submarine
cable route survey contract in the Caribbean. The ALBA-1 cable
will link Jamaica, Cuba and Venezuela. EGS’ RV Ridley Thomas
will carry out the work having just completed the WACS cable
route survey in West Africa.
Cebu, Philippines: Managing Director of the
EGS Asia Inc operations David Martin has completed two recent
pre-survey bathymetric projects for the seismic operations
in the Ragay Gulf and Offshore Palawan.
“Clients appreciate the local EGS capability and high quality
service, as well as our long standing presence and commitment
to this local market” said Martin.
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In July 2011, EGS added the RV Northern Endeavour to the existing offshore fleet in order to meet the demanding deadlines of the ongoing cable route survey projects. The vessel was mobilized to carry out survey in the mid-water range utilizing a full geophysical survey spread including a Kongsberg EM302 multibeam echo sounding system. In addition to the EM302 transducer, the mobilization of all hull mounted equipment including a 4 x 4 pinger was completed in a tight 12 days dry dock period allowed. The dimensional survey of the EM302 transducer and its auxiliary survey sensor including a Seapath 320+ system was also completed during this period.
MV Northern Endeavour is chartered until Q2 next year for ongoing survey work in the Middle East
In addition, EGS continues its strategy of acquiring leading edge technology with the recently installed Kongsberg EM710 onboard the RV EGS Surveyor and the installation of a Kongsberg EM122 full ocean depth system and Reson Seabat 7101 onboard the RV Ridley Thomas in January 2012. Furthermore, EGS International is due to take delivery this month of Kongsberg’s’ latest multi beam system, the EM2040. This state-of-the-art, high resolution, 0.5 by 1 degree system which operates between 200 - 400 kHz and in water depths of 0.5m to 500m will add to the extensive pool of multi beam systems already utilised around the EGS group.
Following trials earlier this year C-Products completed an order for a complete C-Boom system including C-Phone MEH to UK Rental Company GSE Rentals. The unit was shipped off to West Africa where it spent 120 days acquiring data; Alan Cameron at GSE said that he is extremely pleased with the mobility and the performance of the system.
Currently C-Products is working on the development of a new multi element hydrophone to add to its range, the unit will provide both analogue and digital outputs and be user configurable to provide data from either 4, 8 or all 12 elements, it will be on show at OI London2012.
EGS International (UK) is proud to have completed the UK summer survey season with its new vessel, the ‘EGS Pioneer’. The fully equipped 24 metre survey vessel has been refitted to provide an efficient and cost effective 24 hour survey platform to meet the ever increasing demand for marine surveys in the renewable, oil & gas and port development sectors. The vessel can accommodate 14 people in 8 cabins; 6 vessel crew and 8 surveyors. Equipment highlights include a Kongsberg EM3002 Multi Beam Echo Sounder and a survey class Argus Remote Operated Vehicle.
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The EGS Pioneer has undertaken a number of renewable projects since its launch in April of this year, the most notable of these being a high-resolution UXO detection survey using multiple magnetometers for an offshore wind farm development off the East Coast and a bathymetric and geophysical burial assessment survey for the routing of the export cables for another renewable site off the Northeast Coast of England.
With this new survey platform EGSi looks to strengthen its position in the UK and Europe as an innovative, reliable and respected provider of marine survey services to the offshore industry.
EGS (Vietnam) has completed site work for the detailed design of a Deep Sea port in Nghe An Province in Vietnam. This project included the successful completion of bathymetric, seismic and geotechnical drilling from the new EGSV jack up barge.
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Recently EGS Asia Inc has completed a further two swath multi-beam echo sounding surveys off the SW coast of Palawan to detect and position any dangerous shallow coral pinnacles which would cause problems during 2D and 3D seismic surveying operations.
We have also carried out hydrographic and geophysical surveys in 2 sites both in north Mindanao, for proposed marine terminals for the export of nickel ore. A comprehensive land & marine survey was also carried out for a large Philippine power corporation, who are constructing a coal fired power plant near Davao, southern Mindanao. This involved GPS control establishment, topographic survey, setting out of property boundaries, swath MBES, side scan sonar, sub-bottom profiling, vibro-coring, magnetometer survey, ADCP for waves and currents, drogue tracking, salinity and temperature profiling and studies for jetty alignment and thermal plume dispersion.
In Q1 2012, EGS will be working for the U.S. Navy who are conducting LIDAR surveys offshore Palawan. Scope of works includes installing tide gauges and monitoring tide heights, establishing GPS control and 3 tidal bench marks at 4 remote areas, within the Sulu Sea area.
EGS Asia has been coordinating and carrying out specialist cable route survey and geotechnical testing for the PRC to Taiwan cable route. The EGS Geotechnical teams were able to use both the CPT N3k and 5k seabed CPT units for this challenging project
EGS Americas and Group have continued to provide project management, multi-beam and environmental specialists and specialist services to Clients in GOM over last 12 month, and recently completed a substantial marine survey at the end of Q4.
New company, EGS-MMS, to focus on the provision of metocean and acoustic monitoring services
CSA International, Inc. (CSA), and the EGS Survey Group (EGS) are pleased to announce the formation of a new Joint Venture Company, EGS Metocean Sound Sciences (EGS-MSS). The Joint Venture Company brings together both CSA’s and EGS’ extensive experience in conducting large technical marine surveys, including oceanographic programs worldwide.
EGS-MSS will be based out of Houston, Texas and will provide services through the existing offices of both CSA and EGS in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, Trinidad, United States, United Kingdom and Vietnam.
Recognizing the emerging technologies in engineering, deeper offshore exploration and production, environmental concerns, and the subsequent demand for accurate real-time metocean and acoustic monitoring data, the newly formed EGS-MSS will focus and expand its capabilities in this area, providing commercial and technical expertise for oceanographic projects around the world. This will include metocean consultancy and the collection of high-quality metocean data to assist engineering, design, daily marine operations, planning, and management for offshore exploration, field development, ports and harbours, and cable and pipeline routes.
EGS Metocean services include the following:
- Metocean consultancy (expert technical and project management advice on measurement campaigns).
- Metocean moorings (turn-key project execution of nearshore and deepwater mooring programs).
- Consultancy, design, and installation of acoustic monitoring systems to support offshore operations, including seismic survey, environmental impact assessments and to enhance our understanding of the potential effects of marine operations on the environment.
- Buoy based systems (buoy-based meteorological, wave, and current data in real-time, including the provision of full water depth current profiles in ultra deep water).
- Real-time data (real-time graphical displays of metocean data to assist with daily planning).
- Data management (secure storage of processed and raw data sets).
For more information on the company services and capabilities, contact Mr. Andy Brown, Commercial Director, or visit our website at www.egsmss.com
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