VERIPOS bags Indonesian positioning contracts

UK precise positioning firm VERIPOS said it has recently been awarded two major Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) positioning contracts from PT Pageo Utama, one of Indonesia's leading independent offshore survey organizations. The contracts are for two, three-year projects being carried out on behalf of Total E&P Indonesia, the country's largest oil producer.

Under the first contract, involving services in support of Total E&P rig/barge movements and geophysical surveys in the Mahakam Delta, Balikpapan, VERIPOS is to provide PT Pageo-managed vessels with its Ultra Precise Point Positioning (PPP) service for decimetre-level accuracies together with Verify QC Tides software suites for real-time tidal estimation; associated hardware being supplied includes a series of proprietary LD3S/G2 integrated mobile receiver units.

The second contract calls for identical VERIPOS services and equipment to be utilised by PT Pageo for major geotechnical and soil boring investigations being carried out under the auspices of Total E&P in the Mahakam Delta. MV Orogenics Geo, a vessel belonging to Asian Geos, has recently been mobilized for the first phase of offshore soil boring investigations while a shallow draught vessel also seconded from the Malaysian company is due to begin shallow water soil boring investigations in June.(alex)