CGGVeritas opens Saudi Arabia centre
Exploration / Seismic, Sep  04  2009 (Digital Energy Journal)

- ARGAS, one of CGGVeritas' joint ventures with TAQA in the Middle East, has opened a Technology Center in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

The new facility is an open center designed to serve the oil and gas community in the Kingdom with a suite of state-of-the-art capabilities and resources.

It offers a focal point for both local oil and gas players and researchers from the Earth Sciences Department of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals to benefit from:

• co-operation with R&D experts to address specific geophysical challenges;

• high-end processing & imaging technologies, including a visualization center;

• access to world-class training from CGGVeritas University.

CGGVeritas has also expanded its open processing & imaging center in Aberdeen, UK. The center has been comprehensively upgraded to facilitate and support the significant advances in the seismic imaging technology and services it provides. This commitment is a direct response to the increasing complexity of the technical challenges faced by the region’s explorers and producers.

Technology expansions within the center include a significant investment in enhanced compute power and data throughput resources. The center also has a new purpose-built client data-room, complete with an industry-leading graphics computation center that provides advanced viewing of large 3D seismic volumes.

The CGGVeritas Aberdeen center offers the full range of processing services, including 3D and 4D processing of both towed streamer and OBC datasets.

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