Sercel awarded “major” contract from Sinopec for seabed nodal solution deployment offshore China

(WO) – CGG announced that Sercel has made a major sale of its GPR300 seabed nodal solution to Sinopec, the Chinese oil and gas exploration company. Over 6,000 nodes will be deployed this month in the Bohai Sea offshore China.

The GPR300 seabed nodal solution delivers unprecedented broadband signal sensing capability and fidelity, and ultra-quiet performance (image courtesy of Sercel).

Based on Sercel’s breakthrough QuietSeis MEMS technology, the GPR300 delivers unprecedented broadband signal sensing capability and fidelity, and ultra-quiet performance to enable best-in-class subsurface imaging and outperforms conventional OBN equipment. With its compact and lightweight design, the GPR300 is easy to use whatever the deployment mode.

Emmanuelle Dubu, Sercel CEO, said, “On the strength of our in-depth knowledge of the seismic industry and the greater opportunities we see node acquisition bringing in terms of enhanced data quality and insight for client decision-making, we believe GPR300’s design and configuration is the optimal solution for the ocean bottom node market. Having already been deployed on high-profile surveys in the Middle East region, the system is fast becoming the preferred solution worldwide.”