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inApril and PGS to Collaborate

August 18, 2023, Oslo, Norway: PGS has entered a one-year strategic collaboration with inApril for the hybrid towed streamer and ocean bottom node market.

“The strategic collaboration with inApril expands our service offering and capabilities in the contract and MultiClient acquisition segments, and further enhances PGS’ position in a recovering seismic market”, says Rune Olav Pedersen, President & CEO of PGS.

“inApril welcomes the opportunity to work with a major marine geophysical contractor such as PGS and believe we can mutually benefit from the strategic collaboration to serve the global market for OBN seismic in an increasing number of contexts including exploration, reservoir monitoring and carbon capture and storage,” says Anne Camerer, CEO of inApril.

FOR DETAILS, CONTACT:

Anne Camerer, CEO

Mobile: +47 992 39 937

About PGS:

PGS ASA and its subsidiaries (“PGS” or “the Company”) is a fully integrated marine geophysical company that provides a broad range of seismic and reservoir services, including data acquisition, imaging, interpretation, and field evaluation. Our services are provided to the oil and gas industry, as well as to the broader and emerging new energy industries, including carbon storage and offshore wind. The Company operates on a worldwide basis with headquarters in Oslo, Norway and the PGS share is listed on the Oslo stock exchange (OSE: PGS). For more information on PGS visit www.pgs.com.

About inApril:

inApril is an independent supplier of OBS technology as well as the independent provider of Venator, the complete and fully automated ocean bottom node (OBN) based seabed seismic solution. inApril offers a step change in the safe and efficient operation of seabed seismic surveys by providing cost-effective technology options needed for exploring and developing the world’s ‘harder to find’ hydrocarbon reserves.

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Kristian Røislien as new VP Operations

inApril is pleased to announce the appointment of Kristian Røislien as new Vice President of Operations.
Kristian is a seismic industry executive with strong operational, engineering and manufacturing experience. Kristian has a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from NTNU, and over 15 years experience from Western Geco, Fugro, PGS, MagseisFairfield and TGS, latest as Director of Field Services.

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Completion of North Sea project

inApril is pleased to announce the successful completion of our first North Sea project of the season with a leading OBN operator. The nodes are currently being made ready for deployment on the next North Sea project scheduled to commence mid July for another major operator.

We are also completing the production of our new nodes and that increases our node inventory from 500 nodes to 3000 nodes ready for deployment.

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3,000 Node rental kit

We are pleased to offer the nodal kit to the market for summer 2023 availability. The nodal kit will include up to 3,000 nodes with an increased battery life of 150 days and an improved depth rating to 3600m.  The 20-foot automated charging and staging container offers parallel loading and unloading of nodes, optimizing operations and ensuring redundancy.  The kit is ideal for both ROV and Node-on-a-Rope operations.

We have also started the process to add 8,000 of our next generation A3000 nodes to our rental pool for 2024 availability.

“We are excited to have this kit available next summer as there seems to be growing interest from operators and E&P companies for additional capacity ” says inApril´s CEO, Anne Camerer.

Click here for more information on our OBN rentals

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Anne Camerer as new CEO

inApril is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne Camerer as new CEO. Anne succeeds Vidar Hovland, inApril´s founding CEO, who will continue to serve as Chief Technology Officer to focus on technology development and the ongoing build of our deep water nodal kit with anticipated delivery summer of 2023.

Anne is a widely experienced seismic industry executive with a strong commercial, financial and operational track record spanning a 25-year career in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia Pacific. Anne brings a unique set of skills, perspectives, and relationships to lead inApril into the future. Building on what we have already accomplished, under her leadership we hope to hone our strategic direction, grow and develop our organization, strengthen our partnerships, and solidify our role as a player in the marine seismic industry.

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Profocus lands Data Management contract

Profocus Systems, an inApril company, has started on the delivery of a Data Management System for a new customer developing a proprietary Ocean Bottom Node system. This is a further confirmation that Profocus´s emphasis as a specialist software engineering company for the high end marine seismic industry, continues to deliver value to their customers.

By offering node electronics, data management software and efficient handling solutions, inApril and Profocus offer a full range of technology options to companies looking to optimize nodal operations and development projects. This should strengthen our customers’ efforts and allow for further growth of the OBN market.

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inApril agrees cooperation with Geospace

inApril has entered into a cooperation agreement with Geospace Technologies to supply inApril’s pioneering deployment and retrieval system (DRS) for use with Geospace’s OBX-750 seismic nodes. Geospace has more than 25 000 OBX-750 in the market and is one of the world’s leading suppliers of seismic nodes. The inApril/Geospace collaboration will supply customers with the choice of a node-on-a-rope (NOAR) seabed seismic acquisition solution expected to double the speed and efficiency of operations compared with existing systems. The solution will shortly be available.

Both companies are confident that the cost and efficiency benefits of the new NOAR combination will help significantly in accelerating the growing oil industry preference for node-based seabed seismic.

inApril continues to develop its own proprietary Venator integrated acquisition system. The first deployment of the company’s A3000.1 nodes is scheduled for May under a lease agreement with an American organization.

For further details on the solution please contact us at post@inapril.com

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inApril introduces the long life A3000LL node with up to 200 days battery life

Based on requests from customers inApril now introduces the A3000LL (long life) node. The A3000LL has extended battery life (125, 150, 175 or 200 days). All specifications except for battery life, weight and size will be the same as for the A3000. An A3000LL with 200 days battery life will have a weight of 35/15kg (air/water). Please contact us for more details.

 

A3000 Nodes

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inApril agrees node technology agreement with 4CNode Geophysical

inApril has signed a technology cooperation agreement with 4CNode Geophysical, a Norwegian company developing a node-based system mainly for reservoir characterization and monitoring. 4CNode will use inApril`s technology in their nodes and for data management and several quality control solutions.

4CNode Geophysical, founded by Eivind Berg, legendary pioneer of the first commercial ocean bottom node survey in 2003, is designing a seabed node application using separately planted 4-component sensors.

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Is full azimuth Ocean Bottom Seismic production rates of 20-25 sqkm per day achievable? inApril to confirm their game changing efficiency gains this summer

Oslo, March 27, 2017.  Following the successful completion of recent offshore tests of the A3000 node, inApril is planning another project trial this summer.  The trial will be carried out in cooperation with a major operator on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and will take place over legacy OBS data.  In addition to recording high quality OBN data, we intend to further demonstrate the safety, integrity and the game changing efficiency of the Venator OBN system by deploying and retrieving the equipment at up to 6 knots’ speed, which translates into production rates of up to 20-25 sqkm/day for a large node spread.
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