UAE: Polarcus-owned seismic vessel 'Polarcus Nadia' has now entered into operation on its first project in offshore Liberia.
The contract is under a seismic charter agreement, which Polarcus signed with TGS on December 10, 2009. The survey is being acquired with a ten-streamer seismic array, each streamer being 7,200 metres long, with 100-metre separations between streamers.
'Polarcus Nadia' is a modern twelve streamer 3D seismic vessel built to the Ulstein SX124 design. The vessel was built at Drydocks World – Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
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 Nadia' is one of the most environmentally sound seismic vessels in the market with features such as 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.
