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Soaring to success

Fugro has made it into the top flight of world's leading geophysical and reservoir expert service companies.

Fugro collects and interprets data related to the earth's surface and the soils and rocks beneath. On the basis of this data the company provides advice, generally for purposes related to the oil and gas industry, the mining industry and the construction industry.
Fugro operates around the world at sea, on land and from the air, using professional, highly specialised staff and advanced technologies and systems, many of which have been developed in-house.
Fugro's objective is to occupy a strong market position supported by technological developments and the provision of high quality services. This requires a strong, international or regional market position.
Fugro was founded in 1962, has been listed on Euronext N V in Amsterdam since 1992 and has been included in the Amsterdam Midkap index since 2002.
With the acquisition of Thales GeoSolutions on November 19, 2003, Fugro now has over 275 offices and over 8,000 staff stationed in more than 50 countries worldwide.
Organisationally Fugro comprises three divisions: Geotechnical, Survey and Geoscience.
Fugro Geoscience Division
Fugro's Geoscience Division now comprises companies that rank as world leading geophysical and reservoir service companies.
Access to detailed and accurate geoscience information is fundamental to the successful discovery and exploitation of natural resources. Fugro's Geoscience Division focuses on providing services to the oil and gas and mineral industries worldwide.
Its integrated services to these industries are designed to deliver the most comprehensive, reliable and timely data for clients to make business decisions.
Using its wealth of in-house data and libraries, Fugro can rapidly examine a wide range of exploration opportunities or make available information to clients through proprietary web-enabled access. The Geoscience Division can provide complete E+P solutions in a goal oriented and cost effective manner.
Integrated Services include:
• Marine Seismic Acquisition
• Data Processing
• Gravity Surveys
• Exploration Services
• Reservoir Services
• Non-Exclusive Data
• Data Management
Fugro-Geoteam AS
Within the Fugro Group, Fugro-Geoteam AS has worldwide responsibility for Marine Seismic Data Acquisition and Onboard Processing.
Operating a high technology fleet of six permanent seismic vessels, the company is able to offer its clients vessels that are capable of meeting today's wide variety of technical and environmental challenges when acquiring 4D, 3D or 2D seismic data.
Fugro-Geoteam's 3D seismic services have greatly impacted the Middle East region over the last six years.
The company is well recognized for providing high quality 3D data to the industry.
The company has been operating 2D/3D/4D seismic in very complex environments and has been undershooting more than 40 offshore platforms/complexes in the Middle East region.
With more than 30 years of experience the company is a significant player in the 2D, 3D and 4D market.
While its vessels are operated from Norway, the Fugro network of companies has enabled it to gain experience from all six continents (including Antarctica). The combination of a strong operational group in Norway supported by regional marketing offices and Fugro OPCOs with local knowledge has been instrumental in this success.
Seismic Processing
Fugro-Geoteam provides full fold onboard 3D processing and can deliver interpretation tapes to its clients immediately after the last seismic shot.
The 3D migration can also be carried out onboard the vessels within one week after the last shot, if the time between various client projects permits this.
Otherwise, the final processing including 3D migration (PSTM, PSDM, etc) will be carried out in one of its onshore centres operated by Fugro Seismic Imaging.
The Onboard Processing is supported and supervised from its processing centre in Oslo and is a critical part of the Quality Control of our geophysical services.
The processing centre is an integrated part of the Fugro Processing Network, which is offering 2D and 3D seismic processing to the industry in general based on Uniseis and Paradigm Software operating on powerful UNIX workstations and Linux PC-Clusters.
QHSE
Commitment to HSE and Quality Assurance have given its clients high quality products acquired and processed with low risk of damage to its people, the environment or the equipment.
The company's philosophy is:
• All accidents are preventable
• To have zero fatalities, lost time incidents and restricted work cases
• To have no environmental incidents (pollution, wild life disturbance)
• To maintain a working environment free from work-related illness
• To maintain an internationally consistent HSE policy
• Every employee is of equal importance to us in reaching our goal.