Thales Wins Contract to Support Veritas with SkyFix-XP
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 Corporations global fleet of seismic survey vessels operating from Houston, Crawley and Singapore.
The CHP is responsible for hydrographic surveys around the UK in the interests of civilian users, including commercial and fishing vessels as well as leisure craft. Much of the programme’s output is passed to the UK Hydrographic Office to support production of Admiralty charts and other publications.
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.
