Brazil: TGS, CGG in Foz do Amazonas 3D Survey
of reservoir depositional fairways in this location which overlies a source interval contemporaneous with the Guyana Basin petroleum system. Basin model studies predict a mature Early Cretaceous petroleum system with extensive regional reservoir distribution. The nearby Zaedyus discovery in French Guiana and the Narina and Venus wildcat discoveries on the conjugate margins of Liberia and Sierra Leone support resource potential in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, the companies said.Early-out PSDM products will be available in Q4 2023, with final products available from Q3 2024.The project is supported
First North Brazil Current Ring of 2022 Forms Offshore Suriname and French Guiana
operators with planning safe and efficient operations in and around strong currents.More about the NBC SystemThe NBC is the swift northwestward-flowing current that forms where the westward-flowing Atlantic South Equatorial Current (SEC) hits the coast of Brazil around 5°00’S. Offshore French Guiana, the NBC turns back on itself to form the eastward-flowing North Equatorial Counter Current (NECC). Five to eight times each year, the NBC retroflects so severely that it pinches and forms a closed circulation of water that may ultimately detach as a distinct anticyclonic eddy, referred to as
Rovco Completes Amazon Reef Survey for Greenpeace
environmentally supportive expedition.”The project was completed within six weeks by Rovco’s survey party chief, ROV supervisor and ROV pilot on-board the Greenpeace Esperanza ship. The mobilization took place in Bordeaux, France, and work commenced offshore Brazil before concluding in French Guiana. The demobilization will be conducted in La Rochelle over the coming weeks.Rovco is already in discussions with Greenpeace about using similar 3D survey techniques to protect other sensitive environments around the world
BIG DATA: First Intelsat EpicNG Satellite Launched
The launch yesterday of the Intelsat 29e, the first of the Intelsat EpicNG high throughput satellites, promises to usher in a new era of "Big Data" in the maritime sector, among others. The satellite was launched from French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 vehicle. Manufactured by Boeing and equipped with advanced digital payload, Intelsat 29e will bring high throughput capacity in both C- and Ku-band to North and Latin America and the North Atlantic region. Intelsat 29e will be placed into service at 310° East, where it replaces Intelsat 1R. Intelsat 29e is the first
Royal IHC Names Dredger Mahury
performed by Mrs. Gressier, who was invited to perform the naming of the ship due to the close (working) relationship between Dutch Dredging and the Gressier family. Dutch Dredging named the vessel after its tradition of reusing the names of sold or scrapped ships. The Mahury is a river in French Guiana, South America, where Dutch Dredging has a long-term contract for maintaining the depth of the approach to the seaport of Dégrad des Cannes. For many years this maintenance project has been carried out by the previous Mahury. The new TSHD was launched on August 14, 2015 in Varna
MTR100: Loggerhead Instruments
A. Mann No. of Employees: 4 Loggerhead Instruments creates long-term underwater acoustic recordings for noise and animal sound monitoring and study. The company’s products have been deployed from New Zealand to Greenland, Hawaii to South Africa, French Guiana to Sweden, and many ocean waters in between. The DSG-ST Ocean, available in economical PVC (rated to 250 m) or robust aluminum (rated to 3,000 m), is used worldwide by publishing scientists and consulting environmental engineers interested in long-term, low-power recording. OpenTag is a rechargeable
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