Viridien: Sinopec Geophysical orders 80,000 Sercel seismic nodes for China

WiNG nodes for a mountainous and urbanised region

Viridien's Sensing & Monitoring division, which markets its products under the Sercel brand, has won a new order from SGC, described in the press release as a global provider of geophysical exploration services. It covers an additional 80,000 WiNG analogue land seismic nodes.

This equipment will be deployed in China, mainly in a region with mountainous terrain, including highly urbanised areas and numerous infrastructures. According to the group, these characteristics make seismic acquisition operations particularly complex.

With Pathfinder, systems capable of more than 100,000 channels available for deployment

The WiNG solution is designed for large-scale, high-density land seismic acquisition campaigns. Combined with Sercel's Pathfinder technology, it optimises equipment fleet management and enables real-time monitoring of operations.

Thanks to this fleet expansion, SGC will be able to deploy seismic crews operating systems with more than 100,000 channels. These crews will work on some of the exploration programmes that the press release describes as the largest and most technically demanding in China.

Viridien relies on the renewal and expansion of customer fleets

Viridien presents this order as a consolidation of the long-standing partnership between Sercel and SGC. The group relies on what it describes as the largest installed base of seismic acquisition equipment in the world, which it says is a source of a significant volume of recurring orders linked to the expansion and renewal of its customers' fleets.

Jérôme Denigot, head of the Sensing & Monitoring division, stated that these assets "support order recurrence and position us well to seize new opportunities as exploration activity recovers".