Indonesian venture for Veripos – by David Goodfellow

GNSS positioning specialists Veripos of Aberdeen has been awarded major positioning contracts by PT Pageo Utama of Jakarta, one of Indonesia’ leading independent offshore survey organisations, for two three-year projects it is carrying out for Total E&P Indonesia, the country’s largest oil producer.

Under the first contract involving services in support of Total E&P rig/barge movements as well as geophysical surveys in the Mahakam Delta, Balikpapan, Veripos will provide PT Pageo managed vessels with its Ultra Precise Point Positioning service for decimeter level accuracies together with Verify QC Tides software. Associated hardware includes proprietary LD3/G2 mobile receivers.

The second contract calls for identical services and equipment to be used by PT Pageo for major geotechnical and soil boring investigations being completed for Total E&P in the Mahakam Delta. Veripos, which earlier this year extended its global network of more than 80 GNSS reference stations with establishment of facilities in the Falkland Islands, has recently added to its range of positioning options with introduction of a new high accuracy service, Apex. The company says it is available with its LD2 LD3 and new LD6 hardware supported by Verify QC and Verify DP visualisation software.