Marine Technology Reporter, July 2007

<BODY> <div> 20 MTR July 2007 Fugro Global Environmental & Ocean Sciences (GEOS) 6100 Hillcroft (77081) Houston, Texas 77274 Tel: 713 -346-3600 Fax: 713-346-3605 Email: usa@geos.com www.geos.com President: Jan van Smirren VP Sales & Marketing: Rob Smith Managing Director: Jeff Coutts Directors: Jan van Smirren, Garry Mardell, Mark Calverley, Mark Wimshurst, Frode Berge Number of Employees: 200 worldwide Fugro Global Environmental and Ocean Sciences (GEOS) is a leader in providing oceanographic and meteo- rological (metocean) services to the offshore and coastal construction industry, institutions and govern- mental organizations. The broad spectrum of metocean services offered is designed to provide solu- tions through cost-effective, high quality and technically advanced services and systems. With over 30 years experience in a diversity of metocean projects worldwide, Fugro GEOS has an active policy of techni- cal and business development that is closely linked to both its clients' needs and a desire to maintain the lead in metocean expertise on a glob- al basis from offices in Wallingford (UK), Glasgow (UK), Houston (USA), Abu Dhabi (UAE), Trondheim & Sandes (Norway), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Singapore. Their clients are able to capitalize on the talents, experience and special- ist consultancy skills of over 100 members of staff, most of whom are experienced oceanographers, meteo- rologists and marine environmental scientists. These are supported by fully qualified engineering, work- shop, administration, development and information technology staff. In addition to the unique capabilities of their staff, they have the largest com- mercially available inventory of meto- cean measurement equipment and a policy of continual investment in new technology. Technology Profile: Monitoring services including the design and development of systems to monitor metocean conditions in real-time, installation and testing of systems (meteorological and CCTV), training of client personnel, maintenance of proprietary systems (e.g. current speed, wind speed and direction) and remote and direct management of system data. Consultancy services including the provision of prelimi- nary desk studies, design studies for operational and extreme conditions, management of metocean data inven- tories, VIV analysis and numerical modeling capabilities. Measurement services measures the metocean parameters such as waves, current speed; including multi-disci- plinary project management, daily monthly, and yearly data acquisition programmes, data analysis and pres- entation. Forecasting services include the pro- vision of site-specific weather fore- casts (by email, fax, inmarsat and the world-wide web), 24-hour telephone consultation and provision of onboard forecasters for sensitive oper- ations offshore. Seawatch - design and development of metocean buoy network systems, oceanographic and water quality sen- sors, and tsunami module for tsuna- mi wave detection; Structural Monitoring - specializes in engineering expertise in measure- ment and monitoring of platform, vessel and riser responses, including installation and servicing of integrat- ed metocean and structural monitor- ing systems. MTR100MTR100MTR100MTR100MTR100MTR100 MTR#6 (17-32).qxd 7/13/2007 9:54 AM Page 20 </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>