UK /Slovenia: Ocean Geophysics from UK and Slovenian HighTide have entered a joint venture (JV) to combine their expertise in seabed and data solutions for offshore wind, cable and pipeline installation, and oil and gas projects.
Under the partnership, Ocean Geophysics’ large-scale geophysical processing and interpretation capabilities will be combined with HighTide’s specialist seabed interpretation and high-resolution data reporting. The collaboration aims to provide developers with a comprehensive service covering the full lifecycle of offshore projects.
Alison Wells, CEO of Ocean Geophysics, said the companies complement each other’s services. “By teaming up, we can provide developers of offshore wind farms with a full suite of seabed data processing and interpretation. Moreover, we can jointly take on even bigger projects together as a one-stop shop for marine data processing,” she concluded.
The combined services will include data processing for multibeam, backscatter, GIS and charting, seabed mobility assessments, boulder field mapping, foundation risk evaluation, and pre- and post-lay survey support for cable and pipelay contractors. The partnership will also provide high-clarity ROV inspection processing, photogrammetric-based 3D reconstruction for monopile inspections, and mattress and burial assessments.
Ocean Geophysics brings expertise in AI-driven geophysical processing of multi-channel seismic, sub-bottom profiler, side scan sonar, synthetic aperture sonar, and other data types. Boštjan Krapež, CEO of HighTide, added that the JV will bring together almost 95 experts across the UK, Slovenia, and Thailand to provide round-the-clock service, delivering consistent and technically aligned data from early site assessment through installation, inspection, and decommissioning.
Source: offshorewind.biz
