TDI-Brooks Begins Coring Program in Brazil for TGS

TDI-Brooks International, Inc (under contract to TGS), has deployed the R/V Proteus to Brazil to begin an offshore coring program with advanced geochemistry analysis. The program in Brazil follows the successful Gigante and Otos programs in 2016-2017 in the Gulf of Mexico.

The multi-client program in Brazil will span over 4 months for the Proteus, to include 330 Piston Cores, 33 JPCs and 33 HF sites, with a second phase to start early 2019. The Proteus will be available on the spot market for projects in Brazil during the 4th Quarter of this year.

R/V Proteus

The 2016-2017 programs covered approximately 289,000 km2 with TDI-Brooks executing over 250 navigated piston cores with 750 baseline petroleum advanced geochemistry analysis, 140+ 20m Jumbo Piston Cores (JPC) for stratigraphic analysis and age dating and 150 heat flow (HF) flow measurements for basin modelling.

TDI-Brooks have a major focus on Environmental Baseline Surveys (EBS) offshore Mexico over the past 24 months. In 2017, the company conducted EBS projects for Chevron (Block 3), Total (Block. 2) and BHP at the Trion development all in the Perdido area. This year so far, they conducted EBS projects for Total (Block. 15, shallow water), Petronas (Block. 6, shallow water) and Chevron (Block. 22, deep-water) with three (3) upcoming EBS projects for DEM in blocks 30, 16 and 17. The company will follow on to BP’s Block 34. The next availability for EBS acquisition in Mexico is after completion of the three (3) DEM blocks in the beginning of September. TDI-Brooks is also available in that time frame for site survey acquisition.

The R/V Gyre will arrive in the Caribbean & West Africa regions in the 4th quarter with the R/V Brooks McCall working on programs in the GOM for GERG, BSEE, BOEM, NOAA and back at OTOS for TGS.