Dubai, UAE: Polarcus has announced that its seismic vessel, 'Polarcus Naila' has now entered into production on its first project in offshore Cameroon, West Africa.
The contract is a 3D seismic acquisition project that Polarcus entered into with Noble Energy Cameroon on December 2, 2009.
The survey is being acquired with a ten-streamer seismic array, each streamer being 6,000 metres long and with 100 metres separation between streamers.
'Polarcus Naila' is a modern twelve-streamer 3D seismic vessel built to the Ulstein SX124 design.'Polarcus Naila' is the sister ship to 'Polarcus Nadia', delivered to the Polarcus Group in December 2009. The vessel was built at Drydocks World – Dubai.
'Polarcus Naila' is a purpose-built seismic vessel incorporating the Ulstein X-Bow and designed to meet the exacting specifications for offshore seismic operations worldwide. The 88.8-metre double-hulled vessel incorporates some of the most recent developments in maritime systems and is fitted out with the most advanced seismic technology commercially available, including the latest generation Sentinel solid streamers.
'Polarcus Naila' is an environmentally-sound seismic vessel with diesel-electric propulsion, high specification catalytic converters, DP2 dynamic positioning, and advanced bilge water cleaning, enabling the vessel to conform to existing and envisaged IMO and Class rules and to comply with the Det Norske Veritas (DNV) stringent Clean Design and COMF-V(3) class notations.
