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Vol. 224 No. 11 |
Jason Geosystems has changed its operating name to Fugro-Jason. Fugro NV acquired Jason Geosystems BV in 2001. Fugro-Jason will remain an independent operation and will continue to offer expert consultancy services in reservoir characterization, including petrophysical and reservoir modeling capabilities.
Fairfield Industries Inc. announced the startup of its new Seismic Acquisition Crew 107. The crew will be based out of Fairfield’s operations office in Lafayette, La., and operate in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Equipped with state-of-the-art navigation equipment and the company’s BOX Data Acquisition System, the crew will acquire data for Fairfield’s existing 1,650 -OCS-block, data library. The first area of acquisition will be offshore Louisiana in the Mound Point area, which has two recent deep gas discoveries by McMoran Oil and Gas and partners.
The firms previously known as Computalog Wireline Services and Plains Perforating will now operate as Precision Wireline Technologies, a division of Precision Drilling Technology Services Group Inc. Calgary-based Precision Drilling comprises several divisions, including Precision Wireline.
Petroleum Geo-Services has consolidated four divisions into one entity. The company’s Ramform fleet, FOURcE Seafloor acquisition system, Cube Manager processing system and the Gulf of Mexico and Brazil multi-client data libraries are combined as PGS Marine Geophysical NSA in one Houston office.
Grant Prideco Tubular Technology and Services is installing new large-diameter premium pipe-threading equipment at Patterson Tubular Services’ facility in Channelview, Texas. The equipment will have a capacity to manufacture premium connections as large as 20-in. OD. This initiative will increase Grant Prideco’s threading capacity at the Patterson yard, where Grant is the sole provider of threading services.
Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell recognized Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (CGG) as a Dell “Center for Research Excellence”. CGG is the first corporate organization to receive this distinction, which acknowledges the company’s innovative worldwide use of high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) technology in the field of seismic imaging for oil and gas exploration and production. CGG deploys a 3,000-node Dell PowerEdge server configuration in its U.S. headquarters in Houston, and has a 512-node cluster in Foxboro, UK. Worldwide, CGG has a computing power of over 30 Teraflops (trillion floating point operations per second).
The Offshore Energy Center (OEC) inducted the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) into the Center’s Hall of Fame as a Technology Pioneer in the category of Health, Safety and Environment for outstanding development of offshore safety programs. A plaque will be displayed on the Ocean Star rig. 
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