EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION
SEAS Offshore Pty Ltd - State of the Art
SEAS Offshore Pty Ltd is a leading provider of state-of-the-art sediment sampling equipment. The company is
based in Coffs Harbour, Australia and services clients worldwide. Our vibrocoring equipment was originally
developed in the early 1980’s by Dr Charles Phipps and has been further developed over the years to provide a
lightweight, portable and extremely reliable sediment sampling solutions.
A
ll equipment can be made ready for
deployment worldwide. Our team of
experienced personnel provides a comprehensive
suite of vibrocore, box core, piston core and
other sampling services tailored to the clients’
requirements. At SEAS we understand that
every sampling job is different, so we work with
our clients to design each program for best effect
to meet our clients’ specific requirements.
which can be difficult or prohibitive for other core system is designed for core samples
vibrocoring equipment.
to 24m when deployed via a purpose-built
The VC700 4.4Kw system combined with LARS. This equipment has been used with
variable frequency control allows the operator exceptional results for Oil & Gas industry
to adjust the vibration frequency to suit the pipeline surveys and site surveys over the past
sediment type. This additional capacity allows years when set up for 6m core samples. The
greater penetration in sediment types that can Australian Government research organisation
prove difficult to sample with other equipment. (CSIRO) has a SEAS 24m piston core system
The VC700 was recently used with reliable included in the RV Investigator’s equipment
Our lightweight and portable equipment enables success in sampling the dense iron sands inventory.
us to sample in areas that are inaccessible to offshore northern Luzon, Philippines. The When piston core equipment is used in
many other systems, such as shallow lakes, tidal project delivered over 600 core samples to six conjunction with vibrocore systems, both
estuaries and near-shore coastal environments. meters in length with high recovery rates.
equipment suits provide the client with
The various SEAS VC models allow sediment SEAS also manufacture and operates a number reliable samples from the varied seafloor
types in to be reliably sampled in environments of sediment sampling systems. The SEAS Piston sediment types.
BC500 Skandi Hercules, Barossa.