Trilobit Deepwater Node Market Commitment

CGGVeritas is confirming its commitment to the emerging deepwater node market with an order to manufacture an additional 800 Trilobit four-component (4C) ocean bottom nodes (OBN) to make a total of 1,000 units in its equipment pool. The new nodes are expected to be commercially available by early 2012.  

Trilobit is a field-proven, proprietary seabed seismic acquisition system developed by CGGVeritas and successfully used on programs in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Asia-Pacific. The system is a flexible, containerised design which can be rapidly mobilised on most ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) vessels. 

 

As a four-component node with a compact integrated architecture, Trilobit provides high-vector fidelity for accurate and repeatable seismic records. These are a necessity for reservoir monitoring applications and for full-azimuth multi-component imaging and inversion including imaging through salt, basalt, and gas. In addition, the use of a proprietary and efficient ROV deployment and recovery system makes Trilobit suited for imaging under platforms or in areas inaccessible to traditional towed-streamer and ocean bottom cable (OBC) acquisition systems.