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Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow

Thales Wins Contract to Support Veritas with SkyFix-XP

01 Oct 2003

Thales GeoSolutions in Chessington has won a $2.7m two-year contract for provision of its SkyFix-XP satellite differential global positioning system (SDGPS) and SkyFix DGPS services to support Veritas Geophysical Corporation's global fleet of seismic survey vessels operating from Houston, Crawley and Singapore.

Nicki Jones, Vessel Support Manager of Veritas DGS, with Steve Browne of Thales GeoSolutions Inc and Richard Price of Veritas DGS following signing of an agreement under which Thales GeoSolutions is to provide the US-based company with SkyFix-XP and Skyfix DGPS services over the next two years.

Thales says that it is the first long-term contract of its kind to be signed for its new-generation SkyFix-XP system which uses new techniques to provide reliable and dynamic decimetric positional accuracies anywhere in the world, regardless of proximity to reference stations.

Operating in 19 countries, US-based Veritas specialises in providing the oil and gas industries with a comprehensive range of integrated geophysical services while maintaining its own non-exclusive seismic data library of surveys.

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