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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.
All 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.
Our lightweight and portable equipment enables
us to sample in areas that are inaccessible to
many other systems, such as shallow lakes, tidal
estuaries and near-shore coastal environments.
The various SEAS VC models allow sediment
types in to be reliably sampled in environments
which can be difficult or prohibitive for other
vibrocoring equipment.
The VC700 4.4Kw system combined with
variable frequency control allows the operator
to adjust the vibration frequency to suit the
sediment type. This additional capacity allows
greater penetration in sediment types that can
prove difficult to sample with other equipment.
The VC700 was recently used with reliable
success in sampling the dense iron sands
offshore northern Luzon, Philippines. The
project delivered over 600 core samples to six
meters in length with high recovery rates.
SEAS also manufacture and operates a number
of sediment sampling systems. The SEAS Piston
core system is designed for core samples
to 24m when deployed via a purpose-built
LARS. This equipment has been used with
exceptional results for Oil & Gas industry
pipeline surveys and site surveys over the past
years when set up for 6m core samples. The
Australian Government research organisation
(CSIRO) has a SEAS 24m piston core system
included in the RV Investigator’s equipment
inventory.
When piston core equipment is used in
conjunction with vibrocore systems, both
equipment suits provide the client with
reliable samples from the varied seafloor
sediment types.
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