Business News for the week of 2 September 2013

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CGG announces airborne acquisition

3 September 2013—CGG announced that the main administrative authorizations have now been received allowing CGG to close its acquisition of Fugro’s Airborne activities. Certain administrative actions are still to be completed, but these do not impact business continuity and are expected to be finalized shortly. 

The acquisition concretizes the final stage in CGG’s acquisition and integration of Fugro Geoscience. As a result of this transaction, CGG has enhanced its integrated geoscience offering and expanded into new markets such as marine gravity, electromagnetics, data management services, and geological expertise as well as airborne geophysics.

 

Giving sight to shootblind cableless operations

3 September 2013—The International Seismic Company (iSeis) announced that the Sigma continuous cableless record acquisition system is being marketed and already employed by contractors with cableless instruments which otherwise are unable to provide any level of communication between their deployed ground units and the central system.

Sigma channels can be deployed on crews using cableless recorders, which either have no means of communication or some means which cannot reliably be used in all environments. Adding Sigma to such operations allows data to be transmitted wirelessly from the line to the observer using the internationally acceptable ISM licence-free band. The only hardware required is the Universal Encoder 2 from iSeis's sister company Seismic Source Co., and the number of Sigma channels which the crew operator judges is appropriate.